Monday Link Round Up: March 26, 2018

by sarah | Mar 26, 2018

News to start your week! OPERA America has announced recipients for their Grants for Female Composers initiative for 2018.  Eight women composers have received funds to support operas currently in development.  Read more about the winners, and the forthcoming works,...

Monday Link Round Up: February 19, 2018

by sarah | Feb 19, 2018

News to start your week! As more and more ensembles are releasing their 2018-2019 season programming it’s been great to read the responses, and calls for change, coming from social media from patrons, academics, and professionals.  Don’t miss reading Anne...

Monday Link Round Up: May 29, 2017

by sarah | May 29, 2017

Happy Memorial Day to those who observe!  Here is some news to start your week! Lisa Caplan, a PhD candidate in American Studies and Afro-American Studies at Yale has a great contribution to The New Yorker about the need for more diversity in opera productions –...

Podcast Episode 02: “It’s about friggin’ time!” — Met Opera performs work composed by a woman

by Liane Curtis | Jan 1, 2017

Happy New Year!  Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.  Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second...

Monday Link Round Up: December 19, 2016

by sarah | Dec 19, 2016

News to start your week! The conversation about the importance and value of L’Amour de Loin at the Met continues!  The New York Times has profiles, and listening samples, from 10 contemporary women opera composers.  Read — and listen — here. The...