Yale Opera announces casting for Iolanta
Yale Opera has announced the casting for its upcoming production of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. The opera, which will be performed May 3 and 4, is a fairy tale about a princess who experiences the transformative power of love. The rising young director Michael Gieleta makes his Yale Opera debut as the stage director for Iolanta. Timothy Shaindlin [...]
Yale Opera presents a new production of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Marc Verzatt is stage director; Speranza Scappucci returns as music director The Yale Opera program at the Yale School of Music will present an original production of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi on February 15–17, 2013. A retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story, this bel canto masterpiece is “an opera of definite dramatic appeal” (New York Times) replete with [...]
Yale Opera performs fall scenes Nov. 2 & 3
Creative team includes stage director Hans Nieuwenhuis, musical directors Douglas Dickson & Timothy Shaindlin The Yale School of Music presents the rising stars of Yale Opera in two evenings of opera scenes on Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3. Each evening will feature a different selection of scenes from popular operas by composers as diverse as Bizet, [...]
Yale Opera announces fall scenes
Yale Opera is pleased to announce the program for its annual Fall Scenes production, which will take place Friday and Saturday, November 2 and 3. Both performances take place at 7:30 pm in Morse Recital Hall. Hans Nieuwenhuis is the stage director; Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin provide music direction and accompaniment. The design team [...]
Kevin Puts ’96MM wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Andrew Norman ’09AD, also a YSM graduate, among Pulitzer finalists Yale School of Music graduate Kevin Puts ’96MM is the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera Silent Night, it was announced today. The Pulitzer Prize in Music is awarded to a “distinguished musical composition by an American that has had [...]
Eric Barry: guest post from Warsaw
Eric Barry ’10MM, ’11AD writes about recording a Montemezzi opera My career as an opera singer necessitates constant travel, which is one of the real perks of my job. Most recently I represented Yale Opera at the Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw, Poland. Every time I visit this city, the first thing that comes to [...]
NEW video: Così fan tutte preview
Così fan tutte runs Feb. 10–12 at the Shubert Theater. Tickets are available HERE.
Premiere of new opera by alum Chris Cerrone ’10MMA
Red Light New Music recently announced the world-premiere, fully staged production of Invisible Cities, an opera by Yale School of Music graduate Christopher Cerrone ’10MMA. These performances, on May 13 and 14, 2011, are the first staged operatic adaptation of Italo Calvino’s novel. Invisible Cities is produced in collaboration with the Italian Academy at Columbia [...]
Yale Opera offers double bill of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Hoiby’s The Scarf April 29 & 30
Performance of The Scarf will memorialize composer Lee Hoiby, recently deceased at age 85 The Yale School of Music and Yale Opera present two evenings of short operas by Henry Purcell and Lee Hoiby on Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30 at 8 pm. The performances, which will feature the singers of the prestigious [...]
Yale alumnae take part in Opera Boston’s Cardillac
Opera Boston is presenting the long-delayed New England premiere of Hindemith’s opera Cardillac on February 25 and 27, and March 1. Making their Opera Boston debuts in mainstage roles are Sol Kim-Bentley, a graduate of Yale College, and Janna Baty, a YSM alumna who is now on the faculty of the School of Music. Paul [...]
Yale Opera announces casting for DON GIOVANNI
Yale Opera is pleased to announce the casts for its new production of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni, to be performed at New Haven’s historic Shubert Theater in February. The original production features stage direction by Sam Helfrich, set design by Andrew Holland, costume design by Kaye Voyce, and lighting design by William Warfel. Giuseppe Grazioli, [...]
Yale Philharmonia offers Mahler, Berg, and Akiho’s new steel pan concerto January 21
The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale and conductor Shinik Hahm on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall. The concert will open with Andy Akiho’s new Concerto for Steel Pans, which received its premiere December 9 in Sprague Hall. Akiho, a trained percussionist as well as composer [...]
Timberbrit, opera by Jacob Cooper ’10MMA, at Incubator Arts Project
Timberbrit, the opera by composer Jacob Cooper (a recent Yale School of Music graduate) and librettist Yka Igarashi, will be presented at the Incubator Arts Project in New York November 18 through 20. The performance will be directed by Jaime Castañeda and features video design by Sherng-Lee Huang and Phelps Harmon and lighting design by [...]
Tickets for “Don Giovanni” on sale Oct. 29
Tickets for Yale Opera’s much-anticipated new production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Shubert Theater go on sale Friday, October 29. Yale Opera’s production of Don Giovanni will be conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli and directed by Sam Helfrich. The production, to be performed February 11, 12, and 13, 2011, will feature set design by Andrew [...]
Premiere of chamber opera by composition student Hannah Lash
Hannah Lash, a first-year Artist Diploma student in composition at the Yale School of music, saw the premiere of her 40-minute chamber opera Blood Rose this past weekend at the at the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York. Lash describes her opera as “a chilling interpretation of the legend ‘Beauty and the Beast’” that [...]
Derrick Wang ’08MM wins BMI Student Composer Award for short opera
Derrick Wang has been named a winner in the 58th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which “recognize superior creative talent” in music composition. Wang’s BMI award-winning work is the ten-minute, one-act opera ISH, scored for two tenors, barintone, bass-baritone, and keyboard. Eleven young classical composers, ages 13 to 26, were named winners in the 58th [...]
Yale Opera announces casting for spring operas
Yale Opera (Doris Yarick Cross, artistic director) has announced the casts for the upcoming production of Bizet’s La Tragédie de Carmen (adapted by Marius Constant, Peter Brook, and Jean-Claude Carrière) and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. The double bill will be presented this coming Friday and Saturday, April 16 and 17, at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. [...]
Yale Opera to present a double bill of Bizet’s La Tragédie de Carmen and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol on April 16 and 17
The Yale School of Music and Yale Opera will present two evenings of short operas on April 16 and 17. The performances, featuring the up-and-coming singers of Yale Opera who dazzled audiences in February’s production of The Marriage of Figaro, will take place in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). [...]
Yale Opera announces casting for The Marriage of Figaro
January 20, 2010 | Yale Opera is pleased to announce the casts for its upcoming production of Mozart’s masterpiece The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), to be performed at New Haven’s historic Shubert Theater in February. The production features stage direction by Vera Lúcia Calábria; Christoph Campestrini will conduct the Yale Philharomonia. Performances [...]
Yale Opera presents a master class with Alan Held
Renowned bass-baritone from the Metropolitan Opera will work with Yale Opera singers Yale Opera presents the world-renowned bass-baritone Alan Held in a master class on January 13, 2010, at 7 pm in Sprague Hall (470 College Street, New Haven). Held, whose roles this season will include the Four Villians in Les Contes d’Hoffman at the [...]
Fall Opera Scenes: the plots
On October 30 and 31, Yale Opera will present two evenings of opera scenes. To whet your appetite, here are synopses of the scenes to be performed. All synopses are by Grant Meachum. Tickets to the Opera Scenes range from $8 to $12 and are available online or at the box office (203 432-4158). FRIDAY, [...]
Fall Opera Scenes announced
This October, Yale Opera will continue its tradition of offering two distinct evenings of fully-staged operatic scenes. The artistic staff features stage director Marc Verzatt and music directors Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin. In addition, John Carver Sullivan will be the costume designer, and William Warfel will design the lighting. Each opera scene will be [...]
Yale Opera offers two evenings of one-act operas by Massenet and Walton
Yale Opera presents two evenings of one-act operas at 7:30 pm on April 17 and 18, 2009, in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall (470 College St, New Haven). Each evening opens with Jules Massenet’s La Navarraise and concludes with William Walton’s The Bear. La Navarraise, inspired by Jules Claretie’s short story “La cigarette,” takes [...]
Yale Opera begins rehearsals for spring double-bill
Yale Opera begins staging rehearsals on Monday March 23 for the spring double-bill performance of Jules Massenet’s La Navarraise and William Walton’s The Bear. Stage director Vera Calabria returns to New Haven for this production following her most recent appearance directing Yale Opera’s Fall 2008 Scenes. Performances will be Friday April 17 and Saturday April [...]
