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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Opera Memphis's co-commissioned opera The Falling and the Rising gains national recognition with a featured 2-page spread in Opera America's summer 2018 magazine.
Composed by Zach Redler and Memphis's own Jerre Dye, The Falling and the Rising is a new american opera conceived by "Staff Sgt. Ben Hilgert, a tenor in the Soldiers' Chorus of the U.S. Army Field Band." It explores the sacrifice, duty, and human connection experienced by...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Congratulations to our very own Christine Amon, a prize-winning finalist at the 20th Anniversary Lotte Lenya Competition!
You may remember Christine and her "sweet, powerful voice," in Opera Memphis productions like Hansel and Gretel, The Music Shop, The Mikado, The Ghosts of Crosstown, and countless others. Christine studied at the renowned Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, received her Bachelor of Music from Grand Valley State University,...
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Jillian Barron
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Opera Memphis is thrilled to share an article posted by Anchorage Opera about our very own Chelsea Miller! Her grand success should come at no surprise to Memphis audiences who have seen her remarkable talent. Congratulations, Chelsea! From all of us here at OM, we wish you the best of luck with your endeavors and can't wait to have you back on stage with us!
"We're thrilled to welcome rising young star, Chelsea Miller for HMS Pinafore - Nov 2, 3 & 4, 2018!...
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Jillian Barron
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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
I'm still a new kid on the Opera block. When I joined the Opera Memphis team as the Marketing and Outreach Associate in October, I knew...well...that I liked opera. But any of the fine points? Nope. While I've certainly learned a lot more about the operas themselves, what I've most enjoyed is learning about this whole world of auditions, costume shops, and weird tax nuance. Here are my favorite new learnings from thus far in my opera administrative career!
1. The Met Auditions...
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Tierney Bamrick
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Thursday, November 19, 2015
By Alison Moritz, Director of The Magic Flute
“The fates lead him who will; him who won’t they drag.”
- Joseph Campbell
The Hero’s Journey, as examined by mythologist Joseph Campbell, includes twelve classic stages. They include a call to adventure, the refusal of the call, meeting with a mentor, tests, an ordeal, a reward, the road back, and resurrection. There are countless examples from literature and popular culture that adhere to the pattern of a classic hero’s...
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at Thursday, November 19, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
By Music Dir ector Ben Makino
(All production images courtesy of Joey Miller , 2015)
In this post, I thought I’d show some of the considerations that contribute to an interpretation of The Magic Flute by looking at two of its arias: The Queen of the Night’s Act I aria ( O zittre nicht ) and Pamina’s Act II aria ( Ach, ich fühl’s ).
I would like to mention before starting that a work like The Magic Flute has accumulated an enormous volume of analysis over the past...
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at Thursday, November 19, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
By Alison Moritz, Director of The Magic Flute
Tuesday, November 10
Today is our last day of rehearsals in the Clark Opera Memphis Center. The scenery has arrived at the Germantown Performing Arts Center, so we’re beginning to incorporate many of the props that arrived with the set. For weeks, I’ve been particularly curious about the “remote controlled parrot” on the props list.
This sounds like a pretty fun prop, right? I had assumed it would be a sort of helicopter parrot...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
By Music Director Ben Makino I first read this a few months ago, and it was originally going to be the heart of a different post, but seeing as we’re in the midst of staging The Magic Flute , one of the most popular and studied pieces in the repertoire, it seems particularly appropriate now. It is from the introduction to Dennis Washburn’s new translation of The Tale of Genji , which I impulse-purchased in early August. While I unfortunately haven’t gotten into this translation of the Tale...
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at Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
I have a terrible habit of being awed by talented people.
People who’ve honed their skills, poured their hearts into their craft, and
continue to do so for the benefit of their communities just leave me a little dazzled. Witnessing the embodiment of such passion blows me away, instantly transforming me from a chatterbox into a shy wallflower. So when the cast of The Magic Flute arrived on Monday, I found myself a little
shy. After all, they've sung all over the world in incredible...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Monday, November 2, 2015
By Alison Moritz, Director of The Magic Flute .
The schedul e for this production of The Magic Flute has been a bit unusual. We began rehearsals last Thursday, and staged the entire opera with chorus, children, and supernumeraries only. Here’s a peek into our process so fa r:
Thursday, October 29
The day begins with me finding much needed coffee at Bluff City Coffee, just a block from where I’m staying. (My neighborhood is great! Just look...
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at Monday, November 2, 2015