NPR Covers “Cold Mountain”

by sarah | Aug 5, 2015

NPR’s Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon’s new opera, Cold Mountain.  The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe.  It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles...

Monday Link Roundup: August 3

by sarah | Aug 3, 2015

Some news to start the week: Anna Meredith’s Smatter Hauler, a BBC Commission, received its World Premiere at The Proms – you can listen to a recording of the performance online here. Alex Ross attended a performance of The Wreckers and wrote about it...

Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2015

    Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC.  She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...

The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

by Liane Curtis | Jul 23, 2015

Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances).  NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here)  about this historic performance (Musicologist...

New Opera by Anne LeBaron

by sarah | Jun 19, 2015

Award winning composer Anne LeBaron has a new opera exploring the micro-tonality of Harry Partch and the mind altering effects of drugs.  The work is called LSD: The Opera, and several new scenes from the work are being performed this week in Los Angeles.  For more...

Recognizing Operas by Women

by sarah | Apr 20, 2015

Last week it was announced that Opera America will be awarding Discovery Grants to seven women composers in support of the development of their operas.  The Opera Grants for Female Composers program is funded by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, which also funds the...