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Paola Prestini’s new opera Sensorium Ex premieres at Omaha’s The Common Senses Festival in 2025
‘To Have A Voice Is Everything’ – New opera in the spotlight at National Sawdust
At the end of ‘Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity’, my friend turned to me and said, ‘Well, are we going to Omaha?’ Nebraska hardly trips off the tongue when it comes to opera destinations, but perhaps it should. In 2025, The Common Senses Festival will present the world premiere of Sensorium Ex, a remarkable new opera by composer Paola Prestini with a libretto by poet Brenda Shaughnessy.
HGO perform Purcell’s The Fairy Queen in Highgate this April
‘Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me, that yet we sleep, we dream.‘
In HGO’s revitalization of Purcell’s masterpiece, The Fairy Queen, we meet an ensemble of fourteen performers, led through the evening by master storyteller, Puck, a photographer studying love through her camera lens.
Conrad Tao introduces his upcoming Playlist Series concert for the Seattle Symphony
Conrad Tao’s Playlist Series concert for the Seattle Symphony: a journey beyond boundaries
When the Seattle Symphony presented pianist Conrad Tao with an opportunity to curate a program anchored by a Mozart piano concerto, his answer was an emphatic yes.
Opera at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires this season
Slimmed and old and new for the 2024 Teatro Colón season
A consequence of the difficult economic conditions and the need for a level of austerity in Argentina, as well as possibly another well-publicised issue, the Teatro Colón’s 2024 season was announced ‘unseasonally’ late (in February, rather than the usual previous November) and at least for opera, it is leaner in number with a focus on revivals of past popular productions and more use of local rather than visiting artists.
San Francisco Opera in 2024-2025
San Francisco Opera takes a step back in the 2024-25 season
After a 2023-24 season that featured three significant and well-received new operas, San Francisco Opera this week announced a 2024-25 season with fewer performances and only one company premiere – The Handmaid’s Tale, which dates from 2000.
R.I.P. Claire Seymour (1970-2024)
It is with great sadness that we announce the recent sudden and unexpected death of Claire Seymour. After falling ill at the New Year and after a spell in hospital all seemed well and she was as active as ever working with students, marking exams, reviewing, researching and being an invaluable help to Gary Hoffman’s Opera Today and my Seen and Heard International.