Tag: operas by women
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We are in this for the Long Haul! AND a few of our successes of 2023!
“I’ve never changed the world before, I’m not really sure how long it takes.” Marge Simpson We at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy have been working to change the world of orchestral music for a long time. We are in it for the long run. We know this is not a fad or a “flavor-of-the-month.” We are…
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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: July 8, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Akiko Fujimoto (pictured above), the first woman to be named Artistic Director of the Mid-Texas Symphony. Last season the ensemble had a public audition process to find the new director, with four finalists each leading a concert. Fujimoto was a somewhat familiar face as she was…