by Liane Curtis | Apr 11, 2022
Exciting News to start your week!!: Opera American has announced the 2022 winners of their Discovery grants. Eight women composers will receive grants to support the development of new opera and music-theater works: Layale Chaker, Ashi Day, Susan Kander, Anne...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 31, 2022
We are very excited to conclude Women’s History Month with a post by Featured Guest Blogger Elizabeth de Brito. Ms. de Brito is the Founder and Creator of The Daffodil Perspective, a classical music podcast where every show is gender balanced and racially...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 25, 2022
Sorry to be so late with our weekly update! We do want to make sure everyone knows that the Women Composers Festival of Hartford is completely available online (until April 7), and for no fee (donations are encouraged, of course!) The 2022 Ensemble-in-residence...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 14, 2022
We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life. Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth “wearing her...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 7, 2022
Happy Women’s History Month and (tomorrow) International Women’s Day! We are thrilled to unveil our newly updated and expanded database “500 Operas by Women”!! Last week we scolded the Met Opera for their continued denial of women’s creativity as composers. So here...
