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West End Star Lara Martins Releases Debut Album CANCAO Matins is The Phantom of the Operas longest serving Carlotta.by BWW News Desk The Phantom of the Operas longest serving Carlotta, Lara Martins, has released a moving and eclectic debut album, Canção. Featuring 22 songs encompassing tango, Brazilian music and Portuguese fado, Lara celebrates the music of her homeland, Portugal with the grace, expertise and powerful theatricality of an accomplished West End performer. Having moved to the U...

Eva And Marc Stern Establish New Award To Honor Excellence Among LA Operas Family Of Artists Five inaugural recipients of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award honored for their artistic achievements at LA Opera and around the world.by BWW News Desk LA Opera board chairman Marc Stern and his wife Eva have established an annual $50,000 award to celebrate and support extraordinarily gifted artists in opera: the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. The new award will recognize artists with deep connect...

The Dallas Opera Returns Live To The Winspear On March 31 The Dallas Opera returns to Winspear with new “Welcome Back” Song Series.by BWW News Desk The Dallas Opera announced today that it will be launching a new, three-event "Welcome Back" Song Series in the Winspear Opera House commencing March 31, 2021. The companys first event in the Winspear since it was forced to cease live performances in February, 2020, because of COVID-19, the new series will feature four celebrated opera stars in...

Jessica Steinberg covers the Sabra scene from south to north and back to the center. The New Israeli Opera will open its doors again on Thursday night, but don’t expect a grand opera just yet. For now, the Tel Aviv opera house is starting up with some lighter fare, beginning with conductor David Sebba’s arrangement of “Hebrew Songs,” performed by four opera singers with the Ra’anana Symphonette Orchestra. With songs by Natan Alterman, Matti Caspi, Naomi Shemer, Ehud Manor and other ea...

Cedar Rapids Opera pairs puppets with songs for special online performance The Enchanted Forest debuts on YouTube Thursday and also will be shown in Eastern Iowa schools The Wizard (left), voiced by tenor Benjamin Burney, meets up with the Princess, soprano Avery Nabholz, and her confidante, Bumble, baritone Jacob Lay, in the digital version of “The Enchanted Forest,” debuting online Thursday as part of the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre’s 2nd Thursday Series. The company’s annual children�...

March 8, 2021 MACOMB, IL - In honor of Black History Month in February, Penelope Shumate, director of the Western Illinois University (WIU) School of Music Opera Theatre, hosted international opera singer tenor Chauncey Packer, via Zoom. The WIU opera workshop students that attended Packers discussion gained insight into his professional career. In addition, Millikin Universitys opera workshop class joined to visit with the exciting American tenor, originally from Alabama. Packer made hi...

Glimmerglass announces 2021 festival plans The Glimmerglass Festival will be held in a new way this summer, after canceling last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Posted: Mar 2, 2021 12:56 PM Updated: Mar 2, 2021 1:10 PM Posted By: WKTV COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – The Glimmerglass Festival will be held in a new way this summer, after canceling last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The opera and musical theater festival will be held outdoors on a new stage built on the festival grounds, wit...

He was best remembered for shepherding Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts” to a worldwide audience.

Friday, 12 March 2021, 2:57 pm | Auckland Arts Festival Auckland Arts Festival/Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki (AAF) welcomes the government decision this morning that Tāmaki Makaurau would return to Covid Alert Level 1 at midday today (Friday 12 March). It has been a rollercoaster of a fortnight, following the ... More >> Wednesday, 10 March 2021, 11:19 am | Auckland Arts Festival When lockdown nixed a premiere at Auckland Arts Festival last week, another act stepped in to ensure the show can stil...

Director: Madeline Sharafian The first of two Pixar films on the shortlist is a guided tour of all the things that live underground, courtesy of a rabbit who is looking for his own home. To the strains of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” the bewildered and intimidated bunny encounters bugs, badgers and a whole menagerie of burrowing rodents — and since it’s Pixar, it’s impeccably made and thoroughly charming. Will it feel substantial enough to voters? Perhaps not, but it’s hard to argu...