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I can say that all the singers and orchestra musicians do a fabulous job They are very talented and are truly professional musicians. DILWORTH The Fargo-Moorhead Opera’s Young Artist Program is now in its ninth year of successfully helping the development of emerging singers.
This past year, we bought season tickets for their opening night performances. Opera in the Outfield was supposed to be a live performance last year, but concern for singers health and safety during the pandemic shifted it to a big-screen event in the St. Lindquist in A Little Night Music at Arizona Opera, and returns to Minnesota Opera to perform Moralès in their brand new production of Carmen directed by Denyce Graves. My husband and I enjoy opera, so we attend the Minnesota Opera when we can.
"Carmen" concludes the season in May, and is a newly created co-production between MN Opera and The Glimmerglass Festival. In March, "Voices United," a concert of opera hits and modern masterpieces will feature the MN Opera Chorus. The Grapes of Wrath, 2007, photo by Michal Daniel. MN Opera returns to the Ordway in February with "The Anonymous Lover," an opera written in 1780 by Black composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (the first time Minnesota Opera presents the 1780 opera). Minnesota Opera is bringing that magic back to the opera house with its seven-year program called Minnesota Opera New Works Initiative. Opera in the Outfield at CHS Field will be back, too.Īnd in a major score for MN Opera, mezzo-soprano superstar Denyce Graves will be making her directorial debut leading a new production of "Carmen." According to an MN Opera news release, Graves performed the role of Carmen for the first time at Minnesota Opera in 1991 and went on to have a major international career with Carmen as her signature role. 8-Minnesota Opera returns to the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts for live performances in its 2021-22 season. Musicians in the Minnesota Opera Orchestra have authorized a strike after members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 30-73 voted unanimously. Further runs are planned for 2008 at Houston Grand Opera and Pittsburgh Opera.Jun. All three digital offerings Interstate, MNiatures and Edward Tulane Choral Suite will be available for free. Individual tickets for The Anonymous Lover and Carmen go on sale November 2021. A member of the colleges and universities of Minnesota State, Bemidji State University is an. Subscriptions can be purchased online or by calling Minnesota Opera Patron Services at 61 (open Monday Thursday, 10 a.m. Paul, on February 13, 15, 17 and 18 details and tickets are available at This spring the production travels to Salt Lake City, for five performances by Utah Opera (May 12-20. Albert Lea Community Theater (ACT) Andria Theatre (Previously Alexandria Area Arts Association) Amboy Area Community Theater. Bemidji Opera Theater PresentsThe 50s In Three Short Operas. The Grapes of Wrath receives four more performances in St. On the podium is Grant Gershon, music director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale. What kind of music has Gordon provided for the story of the Joad family? Everything from Coplandesque symphonic grandeur to jazz to square dance: "I'm a trash can in terms of what I've listened to my whole life," he told the Associated Press last week, "and you're going to hear just about all of it."īaritone Brian Leerhuber stars as Tom Joad, with mezzo Deanne Meek as Ma Joad, baritone Robert Orth as Uncle John, soprano Kelly Kaduce as Rose of Sharon, tenor Robert Honeywell as Jim Casey, and the beloved veteran mezzo Rosalind Elias as Granma.ĭirecting the production - have a look at the photos below - is Eric Simonson, a member of Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater Company. The result had its world premiere Saturday night (February 10) at the Ordway Center in St. The New York-based composer, whose work has for years straddled the border between the classical and musical theater worlds, has spent several years with librettist Michael Korie fashioning an operatic version of The Grapes of Wrath.
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