Portland Opera continues the 2021/22 season with The Central Park Five, composed by Anthony Davis with a libretto by Richard Wesley. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2020, The Central Park Five is set in New York City in the late 80s when five Black and Latino teenagers were falsely accused of rape and assault and coerced into confession. Their high-profile case spiraled out of control, turning the accused, and their families, into victims of prejudice and grave injustice.
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Long Beach Opera is expected to announce Monday that the company’s new artistic director and chief creative officer will be James Darrah, a Los Angeles director known for producing digital classical concerts and streaming operas during a near-year of COVID-19 closures.
The new contract begins immediately and will continue “until at least the end of 2024,” Executive Director and Chief Executive Jennifer Rivera said, making Darrah just the third artistic director in the company’s nearly 42-year history.
Darrah, 36, is scheduled to make his Long Beach Opera directorial debut this May with a production of Philip Glass’ “Les Enfants Terribles,” part of a diverse and imaginative season curated by Interim Artistic Director Yuval Sharon. Sharon’s interim position began after Artistic Director Andreas Mitisek departed in 2020.
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Prompted by the Pandemic, Opera Philadelphia Innovates Online
With its own streaming service and a string of premieres, this company is setting the pace for virtual performances.
The baritone Johnathan McCullough in David T. Little’s “Soldier Songs,” which he starred in and directed for Opera Philadelphia.Credit.Will Espinola
By Seth Colter Walls
Jan. 22, 2021
What can an opera company actually do in a pandemic? Yes, some previously planned performances can be turned into livestreams, and broadcasts of past stagings can be made freely available if only to remind the public what it’s missing.
But where some companies might be resigned to only that, Opera Philadelphia pluckily spent 2020 commissioning new work and launching its own streaming service. OperaPhila.tv, which debuted in October and is available as an app for major streaming devices, so far features just one vintage broadcast: an engaging 2015 production of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” featuring a then-rising