OPERA in the News
The Three Kings ventured far from home to honor the birth of a new savior, signaled by a star. Opera San Antonio is venturing forth from its home at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, following its mission to make opera more accessible to all.
In a season stuffed with nutcrackers and Scrooges and sleigh rides, OPERA San Antonio presents a 45-minute one-act opera about some of the less-explored characters of the Christmas story: the three wise men.
OPERA San Antonio will open its season with Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera Hansel and Gretel in early October.
Hansel and Gretel, running Oct. 5 and 7, will bring together the Classical Music Institute, Ballet San Antonio, the Children’s Chorus of San Antonio and Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, with Opera San Antonio as producer of the 1893 opera.
The dramatic and passion-filled story of Rigoletto comes to life by way of the talented Opera San Antonio performers. Audiences can follow the journey of devoted and protective father, Rigoletto, in his mission to protect his daughter’s virtue in direct opposition to the suave and manipulative Duke of Mantua.
Verdi's Rigoletto has often been called the greatest of all operas, with its famous arias and powerful drama about a flawed father's love. It first premiered in Venice in 1851, and is now being staged at the Tobin Center for two performances only, May 5 and 7, 2022.
From start to finish, Opera San Antonio’s production of Verdi’s operatic masterpiece, Rigolleto, was a work of art in every way. Every part of it – scenery, chorus, orchestra, soloists, direction and lighting – contributed to telling the story and letting Verdi’s music do what it’s been doing for the past 170 years – engage, delight and move the audience.
Opera San Antonio’s production of “Rigoletto” will have all the bells and whistles that operaphiles expect, something that hasn’t been possible for more than two years because of the pandemic.
Verdi's Rigoletto has often been called the greatest of all operas, with its famous arias and powerful drama about a flawed father's love.
Opera San Antonio’s Don Giovanni will go on without striking San Antonio Symphony musicians.
Texas native Michael Sumuel chats about his role as Leporello ahead of the Oct. 7 and 9 show at the Tobin Center
On Thursday, Opera San Antonio (OSA) announced that the Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Opera San Antonio has announced the lineup for its 2021-22 season, San Antonio Mag reports.
The 2021-22 season of Opera San Antonio could be viewed as a makeup of sorts as the organization reschedules productions that were canceled due to the pandemic.
After returning to the stage in May with Gaetano Donizetti's bloody Lucia di Lammermoor, OPERA San Antonio (OSA) has announced its forthcoming slate of live performances.
San Antonio Opera has unveiled its plans for the 2021-22 season, which will feature two operas.
The 2021/22 season expands on that success, beginning with Mozart’s Don Giovanni followed by the company’s first ever Gala, From Seville to San Antonio. The season concludes with Verdi’s Rigoletto. Additional season highlights include concerts and continued virtual, educational, and outreach programming.
Opera San Antonio is ready to return to live, in-person performances and it’s doing it with verve and panache by staging “Lucia di Lammermoor” on May 6 and 8 at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
To play or not to play? This is the uncertain question faced by the owners and operators of live performing arts venues throughout San Antonio, eager to get back to business but unsure whether audiences are ready to put the pandemic behind them.
Lovers of live performance can finally shake off a year of soap operas in favor of the real thing, as Opera San Antonio steps back into the spotlight this spring for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Texas Opera Alliance has announced that bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green will be its first Artist in Residence.
Opera San Antonio has announced that it will be presenting a series of highlights from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” this May.
Opera San Antonio will return to the stage in May with a concert staging of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” starring opera world star Brenda Rae in the title role.
We are honored to receive the “Best Innovative Online Education” Editor’s Award in San Antonio Magazine’s March “Best of the City 2021” issue.
The first-place prize of $10,000 went to Key’mon W. Murrah with Eric Taylor taking home the second place prize for $5,000. Emily Treigle rounded out the top three, winning the third-place prize for $3,000.
For the first time in company history, there was no audience present as finalists performed live from the Wortham Theater Center.
The finalists for this year’s Concert of Arias, the 33rd Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, will be presented on February 5, 2020, at 7 p.m. CT.
Houston Grand Opera has announced the finalists of its Concert of Arias as part of its annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers.
