by Liane Curtis | Nov 22, 2022
We are deeply honored to have Dr. Marcia J. Citron as a guest blogger. Dr. Citron is Professor Emerita at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. The author of When Opera Meets Film (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Opera on Screen (Yale UP, 2000), her groundbreaking...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 1, 2022
by Amy Zigler, PhD, Associate Professor of Music, Salem College 116 years after its premiere, Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers received its first-ever staging by a major American opera house. In keeping with its renewed focus on the ‘grand’ in Houston Grand Opera, the...
by Liane Curtis | May 5, 2022
A new film, The Lake / nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ , is being screened in Vancouver, BC on May 5 and 12, as part of the DOXA Film Festival. The film may also be viewed online, but only in Canada! (Those who view online have 11 days to start watching once the material is available)....
by Liane Curtis | Apr 18, 2022
A bit of news to start your week! Bethan Langford as Maria Theresia von Paradis in The Paradis Files. Photograph: Patrick Baldwin We are intrigued by the new opera that explores the life of the blind composer and pianist, Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824). “The...
by Liane Curtis | May 3, 2020
We are happy to report that the Met Opera’s ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de loin,” on Wed. May...
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...
