Opera has long been the realm of the rich and the white. Fred Owens wants to change that in Arkansas.
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‘Everything is fine’: Climate change opera ‘Sun and Sea’ brings 25 tons of sand to the Momentary this week
At the Momentary this week: an inventively staged cyclical opera about climate change and modern-day malaise.
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Arkansan William Grant Still looms large as The Met stages its first-ever opera by a Black composer
Little Rock composer William Grant Still’s name looms large as the first opera by a Black composer heads to the Met.
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Meet Barbara Hendricks — lyric soprano, Swedish citizen and refugee advocate from Ouachita County, Arkansas
How Barbara Hendricks sang her way out of rural Arkansas, onto the world’s biggest opera stages and into the lives of refugees across the globe.
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Arkansas Times Recommends: The Meyer’s and “Sasquatch” edition
Strategies for the Ant Invasion of 2021, painted rocks, the gospel of “Sasquatch” and more.
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“Madama Butterfly” at The Rep: A Q&A with Kate Sain and Joshua Price of Opera in the Rock
With help from The John and Robyn Horn Foundation, Opera in the Rock stages a fully orchestrated “Madama Butterfly” at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre this weekend.
Opera in the Rock: ‘Madama Butterfly’
Puccini’s title role is demanding enough to be considered a rite of passage for singers, and Mondanaro is beautifully equipped for it, with a leviathan of a dramatic soprano voice and a technique that draws upon the Italian Swedish singing school, the same school of thought that gave us Birgit Nilsson and Kirsten Flagstad.
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UCA commissioning opera about 1957 school crisis, with help from Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The University of Central Arkansas is working to commission an opera on the 1957 school crisis and has engaged Tania Leon as composer and Henry Louis Gates Jr. as librettist.