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Tag: Opera

Assassins, cowboys and a Gingerbread Witch: Minn. Opera unveils 2014-15 Season

Euan KerrEuan Kerr February 20, 2014, 3:45 PM Feb 20, 2014
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The Minnesota Opera announced its 2014-2015 season this afternoon with a star studded webcast live from the Opera Center in the Minneapolis Warehouse District. Read more →

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Art Hounds: Yukionna, Web of Sunsets, and a brief history of klezmer

Chris RobertsChris Roberts February 20, 2014, 8:25 AM Feb 20, 2014
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This week the hounds are more than charmed by some lunchtime Japanese opera, some centuries old klezmer music, and some psychedelic folk that may put you in a dream state. Dorothy Marden believes that to really understand klezmer music, you need to go back to a time when klezmer was the thread that ran through Read more →

Minnesota Opera to tackle Stephen King horror novel

Euan KerrEuan Kerr September 15, 2013, 10:05 AM Sep 15, 2013
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The Minnesota Opera has commissioned an adaptation of Stephen King’s bestselling horror novel “The Shining.” Paul Moravec is  composing the music with the libretto by Mark Campbell. The production will be directed by Eric Simonson. The tale of a family snowed in at an isolated and haunted hotel will premier in 2016. Opera Artistic Director Read more →

Breaking ground for a new Ordway Hall

Euan KerrEuan Kerr June 19, 2013, 6:02 PM Jun 19, 2013
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  The sun shone down on St Paul this morning as members of the arts community gathered for a groundbreaking celebration outside the Ordway. A few months back when the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra musicians lockout entered some of its darkest days many people, Mayor Chris Coleman included wondered if this might even happen.  “I was Read more →

After blockbuster debut Mill City Opera director hopes for more

Euan KerrEuan Kerr March 16, 2013, 9:00 AM Mar 16, 2013
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David Lefkowich prepares for Barber of Seville

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The reviews are in for Minnesota Opera’s ‘Doubt’

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs January 30, 2013, 11:49 AM Jan 30, 2013
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Most critics find this new opera to be ‘deft,’ ‘subtle’ and ‘complex’, but one complains sections are ‘overlong and unoperatic.’

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Art Hounds: SINderella, David Petersen and a holiday opera in Duluth

Chris RobertsChris Roberts December 13, 2012, 7:45 AM Dec 13, 2012
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The hounds have great enthusiasm for an arts instigator in Minneapolis who’s opened a gallery, a saucy, salacious take on a standard fairy tale, and an opera designed to be an alternative to the nutcracker.

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TPT to air Minnesota Opera’s ‘Silent Night’

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs November 29, 2012, 3:17 PM Nov 29, 2012

Minnesota Opera’s Pulitzer Prize-winning production of ‘Silent Night’ will air on tpt on Friday, December 21 at 8pm.

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Mn Opera returns to Puts and Campbell for “Manchurian Candidate” commission

Euan KerrEuan Kerr November 4, 2012, 6:30 PM Nov 4, 2012

“Silent Night” creative team to write operatic adaptation of a cold war classic.

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Duluth Festival Opera leaves Duluth

Marianne CombsMarianne Combs October 16, 2012, 5:48 PM Oct 16, 2012

According to Artistic Director Craig Fields, the DFO simply is not receiving the kind of community financial support it needs to survive, so he’s going to move it to the Twin Cities.

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