The Secret River, a chamber opera by Stella Sung (music) and Mark Campbell (libretto), is given its premiere by Opera Orlando, which commissioned the work. Adapted from a young adult novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and set in the Central Florida countryside during the Depression, the opera features soprano Kyaunnee Richardson as Calpurnia, the little […]
CANCELLED due to Covid: The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) first recorded Berlioz' L’Enfance du Christ under Charles Dutoit in 1995, and the famed orchestra revives it here with guest conductor John Nelson and a mostly Canadian cast including the Toronto lyric baritone Russel Braun and Quebec-born coloratura contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, who is the first […]
The year 2022 rings in at the Metropolitan Opera with a New Year's Eve gala performance of Verdi's Rigoletto in a new production from Bartlett Sher, the multiple Tony Award winning director who has been active at the Met since 2006. Starring baritone Quinn Kelsey as the tragic clown, this Rigoletto promises an Art Deco look […]
