Tag: Jeanine Tesori
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WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024
Exciting News!! Composer Jeanine Tesori has become the first woman composer to open a season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141 years of operation. Her opera Grounded was given a gala premiere, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo on September 23,as announced in this Met Press Release. The opera features a fighter pilot grappling with the…
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Monday Link Roundup: January 3, 2022
News and music to start off your YEAR! We are so excited for the upcoming premiere of Gabriella Smith’s first symphony!. Smith, pictured above, was commissioned by the Santa Rosa and Eugene Symphonies for the work, titled One, and which will receive its world premiere on January 8. Learn more, and read the program notes,…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 22, 2020
News and music to start your week! TODAY we celebrate the publication of the long-awaited The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, by Dr. Rae Linda Brown, from the University of Illinois Press. (June 22 is listed by Amazon as the publication date, but hey, best to buy from…
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Francesca Zambello and Glimmerglass
Renowned opera and theater director Francesca Zambello has found her name in headlines often as of late. After directing an acclaimed production of Wagners Ring Cycle in San Francisco (where she is an artistic adviser), and being named artistic adviser for the Washington National Opera, Zambello took her other new role as the artistic and…