Category: opera
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500+ Operas by Women: Perform one today!
[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 worked on the update) to comment. “Why is nobody performing operas by female composers?” asked…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 10, 2019
News and music to start your week! Musicians in Bonn, Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann with Schumannfest! The event, which runs from June 1 to June 16, will include works by many women composers, not just Clara. However, there will be a special focus on her anniversary year, including two biographical films…
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Miriam Gideon’s “Fortunato” Premiered
We were thrilled to hear the stream of Miriam Gideon’s 1958 chamber opera, Fortunato, last week. This was the world premiere of this work, which Gideon apparently wrote hoping that it would be performed by the NBC Opera Theatre. She composed it in three acts, and orchestrated the first act. While her hope was that…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 17, 2018
News and music to start your week! The Pacific Standard spoke to WPA President Liane Curtis about the current state of women’s work in symphonic spaces. Read on here! It’s Hildegard von Bingen’s Feast Day! Celebrate by listening to some of her best known works! In the Muse, the blog for the Arts Division of…