The 21 opera singers who have won regional auditions around the United States will compete in the semifinal round of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition on Sunday, April 24, beginning at 11AM ET.
The Utah Symphony today released a schedule of 25 live concerts in 12 cities throughout Utah for summer 2021. The orchestra performs along the Wasatch Front as part of its annual Summer Community Concert Series, in Park City for the 17th Deer Valley Music Festival and in rural communities near iconic locations to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Utah for the Forever Mighty Tour.
Live Opera Returns To Salt Lake City With Utah Opera s Production Of LA TRAGEDIE DE CARMEN
Kirstin Chávez sings the role Carmen with Isaac Hurtado as Don José and Efraín Solís as Escamillo.by BWW News Desk
Audiences are invited to experience live opera once again when Utah Opera produces Peter Brook s La tragédie de Carmen at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre in downtown Salt Lake City. The five performances take place from Saturday, May 8, 2021 through Sunday, May 16, 2021 and will be the first Utah Opera performances staged for a live audience since October 2020. I ve always been attracted to the Brook adaptation of Bizet s famous opera, said Christopher McBeth, Utah Opera s Artistic Director. It takes a story and music with which most of us are familiar and re-examines the characters, the themes and the music in a way that not only is respectful to the original upon which it is based but also gives us a new perspective. The piece is compelling in its focus and
Tanner Humanities Lecture: A Conversation With Martha S. Jones
February is Black History Month, but even those of us who grew up learning a few names of notable historical African-Americans probably can t come up with a female name beyond Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. The history of Black women in America has been a history of struggle against two cultural obstacles to equality race
and sex. And even as the 2020 election elevated the significance of Black women as a game-changing voting bloc, and made Stacey Abrams a figure of national importance, that reality wasn t possible without the work of many mostly-forgotten pioneers.
Sun Feb 14, 2021 at 12:18 pm By Rick Mortensen
Singers perform in Utah Opera’s streamed concert, “Light on the Horizon.”
Utah Opera opened its season last October with an in-person but socially distanced double bill of Poulenc’s
The Human Voice and Joseph Horovitz’s
Gentlemen’s Island.
Four months later the pandemic is still with us though there is hope, as reflected in the title of the company’s second production,
Light on the Horizon. Premiering Friday night–and available through March 14–this streaming concert featured six singers, 35 musicians, and a program ranging from Handel to Sondheim.
Like its first production, “Light on the Horizon” showed the depth of the company’s commitment to both safety and artistic excellence. The singers stayed six feet away from each other and the same distance was maintained between the mostly masked musicians on the stage. That created a clarity of sound rarel