/tags/opera Opera en-US Copyright Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:34:45 GMT /2025-01-15/two-new-operas-focus-on-the-black-female-experience Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists. Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:34:45 GMT /2025-01-15/two-new-operas-focus-on-the-black-female-experience Olivia Hampton /npr-news/2024-11-21/in-a-new-opera-a-life-in-music-and-a-struggle-with-memory-loss-intertwine Composer Laura Kaminsky's intimate new opera, Lucidity, centers on an aging opera singer, portrayed by the 80-year-old soprano Lucy Shelton, dealing with the effects of memory loss. Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:59:46 GMT /npr-news/2024-11-21/in-a-new-opera-a-life-in-music-and-a-struggle-with-memory-loss-intertwine Garrett Schumann /npr-news/2024-05-09/one-of-operas-greatest-hits-gets-a-new-and-happy-ending-in-washington Giacomo Puccini's final opera Turandot gets a brand new ending premiered in Washington, with music by a composer known for video game tunes and a librettist who produced 'Succession' Thu, 09 May 2024 09:15:00 GMT /npr-news/2024-05-09/one-of-operas-greatest-hits-gets-a-new-and-happy-ending-in-washington Nina Totenberg /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Every building has a unique personality. The Overlook Hotel, the demonically possessed setting of Stephen King's novel The Shining, is now also the title character of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s musical works inspired by architectural forms. Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:14:54 GMT /2024-04-03/the-overlook-hotel-translates-architectural-forms-into-music Jennifer Hambrick /2023-11-30/preeminent-opera-publicists-memoir-chronicles-love-music-and-lewy-body-dementia Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:29:13 GMT /2023-11-30/preeminent-opera-publicists-memoir-chronicles-love-music-and-lewy-body-dementia Christopher Purdy /npr-news/2023-10-16/from-opera-to-breakdancing-and-back-again-jakub-jozef-orlinski-fuses-two-worlds Polish countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński talks about his new album with Il Pomo d'Oro orchestra. Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:06:31 GMT /npr-news/2023-10-16/from-opera-to-breakdancing-and-back-again-jakub-jozef-orlinski-fuses-two-worlds Olivia Hampton /npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-03/a-forgotten-opera-premieres-280-years-late A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes. Wed, 03 May 2023 09:03:03 GMT /npr-news/npr-news/2023-05-03/a-forgotten-opera-premieres-280-years-late Olivia Hampton /2022-10-24/npr-news/2022-10-24/from-gospel-to-opera-soprano-latonia-moore-makes-the-world-her-stage Soprano Latonia Moore's journey to the world's greatest opera stages began singing gospel — in her grandfather's church — and jazz Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:05:00 GMT /2022-10-24/npr-news/2022-10-24/from-gospel-to-opera-soprano-latonia-moore-makes-the-world-her-stage Olivia Hampton /2022-07-26/npr-news/2022-07-26/castor-and-patience-opera-explores-systematic-barriers-to-black-land-ownership Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears. Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:01:04 GMT /2022-07-26/npr-news/2022-07-26/castor-and-patience-opera-explores-systematic-barriers-to-black-land-ownership Elizabeth Kramer /2022-07-19/angel-blue-plans-to-bow-out-of-an-opera-after-the-venue-staged-a-blackface-show The U.S. singer says she won't perform at Verona's Arena this month because the theater recently mounted another opera that had performers in blackface. Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:27:47 GMT /2022-07-19/angel-blue-plans-to-bow-out-of-an-opera-after-the-venue-staged-a-blackface-show The Associated Press