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OPERA America YouTube Channel
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Sarasota Opera announces new season
By Marty Clear
• Bradenton Herald • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The coming months will bring the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi and
Richard Wagner and the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten. To celebrate,
Sarasota Opera will offer works by those three giants of opera in its
recently announced 2013-14 season.
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2013/05/19/4531204/sarasota-opera-announces-new-season.html#storylink=cp
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Supertitles, once denounced, loom large in modern-day opera
By Marcia Adair
• Los Angeles Times • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Canadian Opera Company premiered them in 1983, and since then audiences have been guided through an opera's libretto in their native tongue. Despite occasional poor translations, technical glitches and some directors' resistance to them, they have become standard and popular at almost every opera.
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Opera Theatre of St. Louis announces 2014 season
By Sarah Bryan Miller
• stltoday.com • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The 2013 season at Opera Theatre of St. Louis opens Saturday night
with Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, but OTSL has
already announced the lineup for 2014.
It’s an enticing season,
opening with Mozart’s The Magic Flute and continuing with Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites — with an
all-star cast headed by Christine Brewer — and the world premiere of
OTSL commission Twenty-Seven, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, starring
Stephanie Blythe as Gertrude Stein.
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Met Opera Dismantles Its Ballet in Buyouts
By Allan Kozinn
• The New York Times • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Metropolitan Opera
has decided to disband its resident ballet company, whose roots date
back to the opera’s founding in 1883. The 8 remaining dancers of the
Metropolitan Opera Ballet, down from 16 in 2011, have accepted buyout
packages and left the company, their union confirmed.
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Placido Domingo turns Isabel Allende short story into opera
By Agencia EFE
• Global Post • Friday, May 17, 2013
Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean
writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of
Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa," a
production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that
premieres Friday in Los Angeles.
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Peter Mark, artistic head of Lyric Opera Virginia, retires
By Teresa Annas
• HamptonRoads.com • Tuesday, May 14, 2013
After 38 years of leading opera companies in Hampton Roads, Peter Mark has quit the area. He has retired as artistic head of Lyric Opera Virginia, the local company which he founded in January 2011.
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What is OPERAAmerica.org?
Spring 2013 Magazine Issue
- Letter from the President/CEO
- Of One: The Quest for Asian Fusion in the Opera House
- Vancouver: Where Nature Nurtures Art
- Inheriting the Wind
- My First Time
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From Airport:
The easiest way to reach the OPERA America offices is to get a cab at the airport. Cost is $40-45 (not including tip).
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JFK -
Take the AirTrain ($5 - approx. 15 minutes) to the Jamaica Street Station and transfer to the Long Island Railroad (LIRR).
Take the LIRR to Penn Station ($12 - approx. 35 minutes). See Penn Station directions below.
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LaGuardia -
Take the M60 Bus to the Hoyt Ave/31st Street. Get on the
 or  Train and take that to 42nd/Times Square Station.
Follow the Times Square Station directions below.
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Newark - Take the New Jersey Transit train to Penn Station ($15 - approx. 45 min). See
the Penn Station Directions below.
From Penn Station/Madison Square Garden:
Leave the station through the 7th Avenue/33rd Street exit and walk south for four blocks. The building is on the right hand side.
From Grand Central Station:
Take the  Train to the 42nd/Times Square station and transfer to the  Train.
Take the Train to the 28th Street stop and walk north on 7th Avenue.
The building is on the same block as the train stop.
From 42nd Street/Times Square:
Take the Train to the 28th Street stop and walk north on 7th Avenue.
The building is on the same block as the train stop.
For more detailed directions, most up-to-date pricing or to specify a different starting location, please visit the MTA Web site.
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