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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Say, "Hello!" to Stephanie Doche, one of our 2018 company artists.
Stephanie Doche (rhymes with posh), was born in France and moved to the United States with her parents when she was 4 years old. Her love for music and opera began around this time between listening to Luciano Pavarotti and Friends on the stereo and encouragement she received from her grandmother to play piano and pursue music. Doche received her first solo during a kindergarten performance, and in high...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Opera Memphis joined the Memphis Redbird's as the Lipscomb & Pitts' featured Non-profit of the game last Friday, August 17.
The Redbirds faced off against the Nashville Sounds for an exciting evening of baseball! And although the Redbirds put up a good fight, the Sounds won the game 11-8.
Opera Memphis favorite, Chelsea Miller, took the field to sing "God Bless America," while McCleave Fellowship winner Dennis Whitehead Darling threw the opening pitch at the top...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Past Opera Memphis artist, Margaret Bridge, returns to Ireland to perform as Melanto in Opera Collective Ireland's production of The Return of Ulysses by Monteverdi.
You may remember Margaret, a stunning mezzo, from Opera Memphis's 2017 production of Later the Same Evening where she appeared in the role of Elaine O'Neill. She also performed in that season's Midtown Opera Festival. She is now based out of Boston, MA but has performed all over...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018
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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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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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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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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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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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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