Bare Opera News Today

The Petersburg Symphony Orchestra will host its next concert on Sunday at 4 p.m. in Virginia State University’s historic Anderson-Turner Auditorium. 

American Lyric Theater (ALT) announced today InsightALT: Opera in Eden, a performance featuring three new one-act operas on themes of temptation developed by Resident Artists in the company’s nationally acclaimed Composer Librettist Development Program. ALT’s current Resident Artists (Composers Jasmine Barnes, Johanny Navarro, and Alex Weiser; and Librettists Joshua Banbury, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, and Marcus Yi) were selected from over 200 applicants to join the CLDP this season....

By MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR | The Washington Post | Published: March 11, 2021 I look up and behold the ornately ornamented ceiling of Detroits Orchestra Hall, a place Ive never actually been. I look down and my legs have vanished, replaced by a single black pole terminating into a tripod. I look all around and find every other seat in the hall empty, though Im told that at least 10 of us are in attendance. And onstage in front of me, I see the 19 socially distanced members of the Detroit Symphon...