by Liane Curtis | Oct 30, 2019
Libby Larsen’s “Barnum’s Bird,” a chamber opera about Jenny Lind, the superstar soprano “Swedish nightingale” and P.T. Barnum, who launched her on a 150-performance U.S. tour, will receive a staged reading at Circle in the Square...
by Liane Curtis | Sep 30, 2019
We found Quinn Mason’s Youtube channel devoted to women conductors some months ago. This is truly an amazing channel, featuring more than 150 recordings of ensembles led by 50+ different women conductors, representing a different range of backgrounds, ages and...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 6, 2019
Paired with a work by Stanford in Irish-themed evening An edited and shortened version of this article appeared in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The Boston Globe had an exciting piece last week in anticipation of the performance of Beach’s...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2019
By Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Ph.D., musicology, [email protected] When Vivian Perlis died last month, the music world lost a respected scholar, a pioneering oral historian, an advocate for American composers and a strong supporter of women in classical music and...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 19, 2019
[note: latest version of the opera database, March 2022, is here https://wophil.org/500ops/ ] Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to unveil our newly-updated database of 500+ Operas by Women! We invited Dr. Penny Brandt (one of the two noted scholars who...