None of the main characters in Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” survive, but the audience Thursday night for Opera San Antonio’s production was treated to an ultra dramatic evening.
Read MoreNowadays, many stage directors try to present classical theatrical works in contemporary setting to make them somehow more relevant, but E. Loren Meeker had no desire to go in that direction with her current staging of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, produced by Opera San Antonio. The show will premiere Thursday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
Read MoreGiacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which Opera San Antonio will present as its season debut this Thursday and Saturday, is a passionate, brutal, and ultimately tragic love story set within knotty layers of political and civil unrest.
Read MoreBaritone Michael Chioldi says the classic opera’s themes are still relevant to today’s audiences
Read MoreThe title role of Tosca, Jennifer Rowley, made an appearance on Kens5 this morning.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” Jennifer Rowley will bring her acclaimed turn in the title role alongside side Rafael Davila as Cavaradossi and Michael Chioldi as Scarpia. Francesco Milioto is set to conduct the production by E. Loren Meeker.
Read MoreRead the essay from E. Loren Meeker, describing her time as a director in the opera world.
Read MoreCharles Gounod’s opera “Faust” may be one of the most loved classical operas in the world but it has not been seen in San Antonio since the late John Alexander sang the title role in 1969. That was fifty years ago!
Read MoreOpera 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.
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