Opera San Antonio cracked open its landmark fifth season Thursday with a lavish, touching production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved “La Traviata,” the company’s third Verdi show in its history.
Read MoreWhen I first decided that I wanted to pursue a career as a professional singer, it never occurred to me that being born without my right hand would ever be an issue. To some extent, it never really has been. Yet, in other ways, it has played a significant role in shaping the artist that I have become today.
Read MoreThough it had its premiere in 1896 and the story’s setting is 19th-century Paris, Puccini’s La Bohème remains strikingly apposite today in any big city with a concentration of struggling young artists and intellectuals and a vast gap between rich and the poor.
Read MoreGiacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” is an opera about the young and aimed at the young of heart.
Read MoreOn a frigid winter morning at the warehouse of A.T. Jones & Sons costume shop in Mount Vernon, longtime owner and operator George Goebel is comfortably seated at a table and working on a headpiece—a finicky thing inside of which he’s wedged a plastic container for structure and is now sewing in seams.
Read MoreAnyone who knows anything about opera knows Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème.”
Read MoreOPERA San Antonio took a giant step Friday night with the first staging of its fourth season.
Read MoreWhen the curtain came down on Opera San Antonio’s memorably strong production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth on Sept. 8, the Tobin Center audience might well have wondered why this taut Shakespearean drama isn’t staged more often.
Read MoreA village of singers, musicians, designers, and skilled workers, plus truckloads of sets, and costumes, assemble in San Antonio to make it happen.
Read MoreDid you know that OPERA San Antonio offers more intimate performances to students through its education programs in San Antonio schools?
Read MoreIn anticipation of its 2017-18 season, OPERA San Antonio is bringing opera to young audiences at the San Antonio Public Library.
Read MoreSan Antonians have supported opera since the late 19th century; in 1945 San Antonio became the first city in Texas to start a resident company.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio will stage beloved masterpieces by composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini for its 2017-18 season.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio’s production of Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, which opened May 6 in the Tobin Center, was the work of a World Series contender.
Read MoreSomewhere between the sun and the moon, imagination sparked the creation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in the 1700s.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio’s “Carmen” production, the first of its 2016-17 season, magnified that unity in its Thursday night performance in all the ways that counted.
Read MoreThe internationally renowned theatre, opera and ballet designer Desmond Heeley, who died on June 10 at the age of 85, conceptualized the elaborate stage accoutrement and crafted most of it himself, in spite of having a team to do such work.
Read More“The Barber of Seville” will be performed May 6-7, 2017, at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. The San Antonio Symphony will be in the pit. A conductor has not been selected yet.
Read More“Carmen,” Georges Bizet’s masterpiece of passion and jealousy, will open Opera San Antonio’s 2016-17 season.
Read MorePresenting Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” to start its second season, Opera San Antonio on Thursday proved its first-season success with Richard Strauss’ “Salome” was not a fluke.
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