On Friday and Saturday evenings, the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts resident company will transform the Carlos Alvarez Theater into a functioning cocktail bar for an immersive performance of María de Buenos Aires, a 1968 two-act opera by Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla and Uruguayan poet Horacio Ferrer.
Read More“Maria de Buenos Aires”: Opera San Antonio is planning an immersive staging of the opera, which tells the story of a sex worker obsessed with tango. The piece has music by Astor Piazzolla and a libretto by Horacio Ferrer. Feb. 10-11, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
Read MoreThe synopsis of 19th century composer Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera Pagliacci reads almost as a rendering of the current dispute between San Antonio arts companies: “When a traveling acting troupe arrives to perform in a bustling town, the secrets and jealousies among them threaten to explode onstage.”
Read MoreThe debut production of Opera San Antonio’s 2022-23 season, Pagliacci, is a verismo-style Italian opera that is heavy on drama, which cast members say makes it easy for the audience to understand even if they don’t read every word of the English supertitles that will scroll above the performance.
Read MoreDiscussion of a proposed $300,000 in funding for the Classical Music Institute struck notes of discord at Bexar County Commissioners Court Tuesday. With the funding, the Classical Music Institute (CMI) would replace the former San Antonio Symphony as orchestra for Opera San Antonio and Ballet San Antonio performances at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.
Read MoreThe fine arts are back in full swing. While attendance and fundraising may still be catching up to pre-COVID levels, San Antonio is heading into the 2022-23 arts season with a full slate of live theater, music, dance and opera performances to enjoy.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreVerdi'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.
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreOpera 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.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio returns to the Tobin Center stage with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera about a father’s quest to protect his daughter. A pre-show lecture is open to all ticket holders at 6:30 p.m. The show is a co-production of Boston Lyric Opera, the Atlanta Opera and Opera Omaha. The production is being performed in Italian with English supertitles. Tickets are available here. Thursday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. 100 Auditorium Circle
Read MoreThe fine arts are back in full swing. While attendance and fundraising may still be catching up to pre-COVID levels, San Antonio is heading into the 2022-23 arts season with a full slate of live theater, music, dance and opera performances to enjoy.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio returns to the Tobin Center stage with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera about a father’s quest to protect his daughter. A pre-show lecture is open to all ticket holders at 6:30 p.m. The show is a co-production of Boston Lyric Opera, the Atlanta Opera and Opera Omaha. The production is being performed in Italian with English supertitles. Tickets are available here. Thursday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. 100 Auditorium Circle
Read MoreVerdi's Rigoletto has often been called the greatest of all operas, with its famous arias and powerful drama about a flawed father's love.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio’s Don Giovanni will go on without striking San Antonio Symphony musicians.
Read MoreTexas native Michael Sumuel chats about his role as Leporello ahead of the Oct. 7 and 9 show at the Tobin Center
Read MoreOn Thursday, Opera San Antonio (OSA) announced that the Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Read MoreOpera San Antonio has announced the lineup for its 2021-22 season, San Antonio Mag reports.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAfter 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.
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