NEWS: Opera America Hall of Fame Inductees Include Minnesota Connections Arts Music Opera by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 17, 2026 When Opera America inducts its 2025 class into the Opera Hall of Fame next month, Minnesotan opera fans will see more than a few familiar faces. Several of the nine artists, administrators, and philanthropists being recognized have worked closely with Minnesota Opera, with roots stretching back decades. The honorees – baritone
PREVIEW: Minnesota Opera’s 2026-2027 Season Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 16, 2026 Minnesota Opera returns to its mainstage home at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN in 2026-2027. Minnesota Opera has announced its 64th season, with a trio of operas old and new. The season will feature the world premiere of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by librettist
PREVIEW: Puccini’s Edgar at Minnesota Opera Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 An excerpt of a watercolor illustration by Giovanni Zuccarelli for the score of Giacomo Puccini's second opera, Edgar, which will be performed by Minnesota Opera in April. A rarely heard musical gem is coming to the Twin Cities on April 17 and 19. Minnesota Opera will cap off the spring melt
INTERVIEW: Jenny LeDoux and Nautilus’ Bluestem Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - June 1, 2025June 1, 2025 A promotional image for Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts reading of Bluestem, a new music theater piece by Eric Anderson and Kim Sherman. One of the best-kept secrets in the Twin Cities is Nautilus Music-Theater's Rough Cuts series – a chance to see riveting, intimate performances of material for the highly affordable
NEWS: Cancellations Continue to Roll The Kennedy Center Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - March 30, 2025March 30, 2025 The ceiling of The Kennedy Center's Opera House in Washington, DC. Photo by Ron Blunt, courtesy of The Kennedy Center. Disruptions continue to spawn at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, long one of the nation's leading arts institutions in Washington, DC. The celebrated opera Fellow Travelers – which
REVIEW (London): Brilliant, Shocking Festen (Royal Opera House) Arts Music Opera by Amy Donahue - February 12, 2025 A promotional photo for the world premiere of Lee Hall and Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Festen, now playing at the Royal Opera House in London. Photo courtesy of the Royal Ballet & Opera, London. The Royal Opera House in London played host last night to a brilliant world premiere of the opera Festen,
FEATURE: An Engine for New Opera Arts Music Opera Theatre by Amy Donahue - December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 Mezzo-soprano and composer Lisa Neher (left), pianist Jodi Goble (center), and soprano Maggie Burr (right) rehearse music from the forthcoming opera murder mystery Kitchen/Wedding/Murder at the Mindekirken in Minneapolis, MN. The church sanctuary features an altarpiece by August Klagstad in the background. In October 2022, the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church in
FRINGE FILE #5: Reviews, Pt. 2 Arts Music Opera Theatre by Twin Cities Arts Reader - August 9, 2024August 11, 2024 Daddy Issues (Pretend Productions) A well-told bio-play, delivered in riveting form, by the skilled Allison Vincent. A moving exploration of family relationships, memory, and decline. Gasthaus (Trompe l'Oeil) An interesting Cold War era history piece at the dividing line border of East and West Germany that goes through the gasthaus itself. This of course complicates
FEATURE: From Northfield to Cultural Ambassador: Victoria Erickson, Soprano and DAAD Scholar Arts Music Opera Theatre by John Anderson - July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 Minnesota singer and Opera Athena Creative Director Victoria Erickson in the 2024 premiere of the opera The Miller's Daughter, for which she wrote the libretto. The city of Northfield, Minnesota has long had an outsize influence on the larger world. In its early role as an agricultural hub, it exported flours
PREVIEW: Behind the Story – Before Out of the Box Opera’s Suor Angelica Arts Music Opera Theatre by Basil Considine - June 24, 2024June 24, 2024 The interior of the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, MN, which will host Out of the Box Opera's production of Puccini's opera Suor Angelica. In the spring of 1904, the composer Giacomo Puccini was at an impasse. To the public eye, his life and career were flying high: he had