Facing the same challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas’ five major opera have formed a new partnership,.
Read MoreFive Texas opera companies have joined forces to help survive the coronavirus pandemic. The Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Austin Opera, OPERA San Antonio, and Houston Grand Opera have created the Texas Opera Alliance, with the goal of protecting and advancing the art form.
Read MoreAn in-depth interview with General & Artistic Director E. Loren Meeker on how she has navigated through the challenges of the pandemic.
Read MoreThe community giving day raises funds for nonprofits working to meet needs and continue operations during COVID-19.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio won’t take the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts stage again until May 6 and 8 but that doesn’t mean they’re going dark for the remainder of the year.
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic may be on everyone’s mind, but the climate change issue is still the big crisis coming our way even if temporarily forgotten, it seems.
Read MoreJust three days before opening their production of “Our Town”, the Classic Theatre of San Antonio found themselves postponing their 12th season with no knowledge of when they would reopen.
Read MoreFor the past three years, hundreds of schoolchildren taking part in a language arts program offered by the San Antonio Symphony have capped the experience with a field trip to hear the musicians live.
Read MoreIn announcing its 2020-2021 season, Opera San Antonio appears to have taken seriously the notion that the coronavirus pandemic might not run its course until at least next year.
Read MoreThe Explore Opera for Kids summer series kicks off with Magic, Maestro & Mozart. The virtual event begins with a behind-the-scenes tour of the Tobin Center followed by a San Antonio Public Library Zoom Q&A with a few Opera San Antonio singers.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio’s 2020-21 season will look very different from seasons past, with one full-scale production slated for May and an outdoor concert staging tentatively in the works for sometime this fall.
Read MoreGet to know OPERA San Antonio’s new General & Artistic Director, E. Loren Meeker.
Read MoreWhile visual and performing arts venues remain closed, arts organizations are coming up with more ideas on how to reach their audiences and help the artists who have lost income due to cancellations.
Read MoreA few times each week, Opera San Antonio General and Artistic Director E. Loren Meeker takes to Facebook, posting video content on the group’s page.
Read MoreWe first want to tell you about the wonderful concert opera, The Capulets and the Montagues that Opera San Antonio is presenting this weekend. A concert opera is pretty much what the name implies: an opera sung with musical accompaniment but without sets, costumes and the mass scenes of market places, battles, castles, balls, etc.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio has new full-time general and artistic directors for the first time in more than a year.
Read MoreNone 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
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