Week of Events
Heyward Closes First Baltimore Season
To close out his inaugural season as music director of the Baltimore Symphony on June 13-16, Jonathon Heyward conducts a new work by James Lee III, who has written many commissions for the BSO. Soprano Christine Goerke will be on hand to sing Strauss’ Four Last Songs in program that also includes Jessie Montgomery’s Records […]
New York: Excerpts from Reid’s New Climate Opera
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid on June 13 at National Sawdust for an evening of excerpts from her provocative new opera, The Shell Trial, fresh on the heels of its world premiere in Amsterdam. Based on the play De zaak Shell by Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens, the opera explores climate devastation as a crisis […]
Glass’ ‘Galileo’ At OTSL
With music by Philip Glass and a libretto by Mary Zimmerman, Galileo Galilei celebrates the power of intellectual curiosity. Opera Theatre of St. Louis will offer the work June 15-29 with Paul Groves in the title role in a production directed by James Robinson and conducted by Kwamé Ryan. https://opera-stl.org/whats-on/galileo-galilei/
Atlanta Opera Explores Lake Lanier’s Haunting History
On June 15-17, Atlanta Opera will give the world premiere of Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier) as part of its 96-Hour Opera Project. The one-act dark comedy by Marcus Norris explores some of Georgia’s terrifying, uncomfortable, and uncanny happenings at Lake Lanier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Chaowen Ting conducts. https://www.atlantaopera.org/forsyth-county-is-flooding/
