The University of Michigan Opera Theatre presented a delightful production of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" Thursday evening at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. It was a joy to watch the strong cast and orchestra carry the challenging work with such ease and aplomb.
Stravinsky’s 1951 neo-classical opera “The Rake’s Progress” doesn’t find a place too often in professional opera houses. “It’s a wonderful opera, but it can be hard to find a way to program it in professional seasons,” says Robert Swedberg, director of the opera studio program at the University of Michigan ...
Time is what you make of it, depending where you are. It also seems it can run in many directions and at many speeds. “Einstein” is the proof of that.
Now in Ann Arbor for a rare production of their groundbreaking work “Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts,” composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson sat down Sunday to discuss the work as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Speaking before an absolutely packed MichiganTheater audience ...
A rare production of the landmark "Einstein on the Beach" comes to Ann Arbor next weekend. A remounting of composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson’s groundbreaking and rarely performed “Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts”—which will be performed in Ann Arbor, courtesy of the University Musical ...
Ypsilanti native Joe Guyton and his singing partner, Nica. An opera singer from Ypsilanti has made it all the way to the finale of the German edition of the television talent franchise "X Factor." Joe Guyton was born and raised in Ypsilanti, and he attended St. Francis and Gabriel Richard ...
The University Opera Theatre once again breathed new life into a classic with its production of Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff." Composed when Verdi was 79 years old, the comic masterpiece was his last opera. Arrigo Boito's libretto features the notorious old character from William Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and ...
“A very special work” is how University of Michigan music professor Joshua Major describes Verdi’s “lyric comedy” “Falstaff.” Directing the show for second time for the University of Michigan University Opera Theatre—he also oversaw a 2000 production here—Major says his goal is to do even greater justice to an opera ...
Beginning June 15, the Met and NCM Fathom will once again present Summer HD Encores, a series of encore performances from the groundbreaking Live in HD series, in more than 400 select movie theaters nationwide through NCM’s exclusive Digital Broadcast Network. Local theaters that will be screening the shows are ...
Getting patrons across the threshold and into the theater is the job of any performing arts organization. So you might think that an opera company like Arbor Opera Theater might have looked to that great and popular crowd pleaser, “Carmen,” some time in its first 10 years. But it’s only ...
"Little Women”? That’s for girls. Or so director Robert Swedberg remembered Louisa May Alcott’s famous novel of four New England sisters growing up just after the Civil War. “I didn’t have the best experience with ‘Little Women.’ As a teen-age boy, it was not my favorite work” the University of ...
Arbor Opera Theater, Ann Arbor's local opera company, is presenting a cabaret fundraiser called "Vive La France" on Sunday for two seatings at the Earle.
Set in an Italian vineyard during the 1950s, the University Opera Theatre's production of Gaetano Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" was a well-balanced blend of artistry and light-hearted comedy Thursday night at Power Center.
Shirley Verrett By RONALD BLUM Associated Press Shirley Verrett, an acclaimed American mezzo-soprano and soprano praised for her blazing intensity during a career that spanned four decades, died Friday in Ann Arbor. She was 79. Verrett, one of the top opera singers of the 1970s and 1980s, had been suffering ...
You might say the University of Michigan University Opera Theatre exercises restraint in limiting revivals of Donizetti’s charming “Elixir of Love” (“L’Elisir d’Amore”) to once every 15 years or so. After all, this Donizetti opera makes the Top 10 list of the most performed operas every year. But the company, ...
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