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10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2018 [U.S Edition]
Silent Night – Glimmerglass Festival: Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s award-winning masterpiece makes its Glimmerglass debut in a new production by Tomer Zvulun. Nicole Paiement conducts the score, which includes three languages and which will be a rare opportunity for New York audiences to see this modern masterpiece. Performance Dates: July 15-August 23, 2018
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Elizabeth Cree
"Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell cleverly transform Peter Ackroyd's culturally allusive novel about a Victorian serial killer into a viable, fast-paced ninety-minute entertainment...Puts's rhythmically alert score, ingeniously orchestrated in a way that keeps one listening, flowered under Corrado Rovaris’s leadership."
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'Elizabeth Cree' opens O17 festival with bloody good opera
"Puts formulated a canny musical manner that had the orchestra constantly bubbling, pulsating, simmering, and rippling as a frame for pithy vocal lines...
I’d recommend this to anybody with a taste for sophisticated music theater"
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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Productions
Minnesota Opera (November 10-18, 2018)
Washington National Opera (Nov. 10-25, 2018)
Opera North (Nov. 30-Dec. 7, 2018, UK Premiere)
Buffalo Opera Unlimited (Nov. 30 and Dec. 2, 2018)
Austin Opera (Jan. 26-Feb. 3, 2019)
Arizona Opera (Mar. 1-10, 2019)
Past Productions
Minnesota Opera (Nov. 2011 - premiere)
Opera Company of Philadelphia (Feb. 2013)
Fort Worth Opera (May 2014)
Cincinnati Opera (July 2014)
Wexford Festival Opera (Oct.-Nov. 2014)
Calgary Opera (Nov. 2014)
Lyric Opera of Kansas City (Feb.-Mar. 2015)
Opera de Montreal (May 2015)
The Atlanta Opera (Nov. 5-13, 2016)
Michigan Opera Theatre (Nov. 12-20, 2016)
Opera San Jose (Feb. 11-26, 2017)
Piedmont Opera (Oct. 2017)
Glimmerglass Festival (Jul. 15 - Aug. 23, 2018)
UBC Opera (No. 3-9, 2018)
The University of Kentucky Opera Theatre (Nov. 9-11, 2018)
Music by Kevin Puts. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the 2005 film Joyeux Noël, directed by Christian Carion and produced by Nord-Ouest Production.
Past Productions
Chicago Opera Theater (Feb. 10-18, 2018)
Opera Philadelphia (Sep. 14-23, 2017 - World Premiere)
Music by Kevin Puts. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the novel The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Peter Ackroyd
Past Productions
Minnesota Opera (March 2015 - World Premiere)
Austin Opera (Sep. 17, 2016)
Music by Kevin Puts. Libretto by Mark Campbell. Based on the novel by Richard Condon.
Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 17, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Friday, November 23, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 2:00 pm
Washington National Opera
Silent Night
Nicole Paiement, conductor
Tomer Zvulun, director
Erhard Rom, set designer
Eisenhower Theater
Washington, DC 20566
Purchase Tickets and more information: kennedy-center.org/wno
Saturday, November 10 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 11 at 2:00 pm
Tuesday, November 13 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 17 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 2:00 pm
Minnesota Opera
Silent Night
Courtney Lewis, conductor
Eric Simonson, stage director
Ordway Center for Performing Arts
St. Paul, MN
Purchase Tickets and more information: mnopera.org
November 15, 2018 at 8 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Oboe Concerto, “Moonlight”
Katherine Needleman, oboe
Marin Alsop, conductor
Meyerhoff, Baltimore, MD
Purchase Tickets and more information: bsomusic.org
November 15, 2018 at 11 am
November 16, 2018 at 8 pm
November 17, 2018 at 8 pm
Minnesota Orchestra
Inspiring Beethoven
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Orchestra Hall
Minneapolis, MN
Purchase Tickets and more information: minnesotaorchestra.org
Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 3 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Oboe Concerto, “Moonlight”
Katherine Needleman, oboe
Marin Alsop, conductor
Strathmore, Bethesda, MD
Purchase Tickets and more information: bsomusic.org
Friday, November 30, 2018
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Southern Methodist University Orchestra
Flute Concerto
Caruth Hall
Dallas, Texas
Purchase Tickets and more information: mcs.smu.edu
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Friday, December 7, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Opera North
Silent Night [UK Premiere]
Nicholas Kok, conductor
Tim Albery, director
Hannah Clark, set and costume designer
Leeds Town Hall
Purchase Tickets and more information: operanorth.co.uk
Friday, November 30, 2018 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Buffalo Opera Unlimited
Silent Night
Matt Marco, Conductor
David King, Set Design
Tim Kennedy, Artistic Director
Performing Arts Center, Rockwell Hall, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, NY
Purchase Tickets and more information: buffalooperaunlimited.org
December 2, 2018
CWU Symphony Orchestra
Violin Concerto
Ellensburg, Washington
Purchase Tickets and more information: cwu.edu
Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Austin Opera
Silent Night
Timothy Myers, Conductor
Conor Hanratty, Stage Director
The Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX
Purchase Tickets and more information: austinopera.org
January 26, 2019
Illinois Music Education Association
Millennium Canons
Peoria Civic Center Arena
Peoria, Ill
Purchase Tickets and more information: peoriaciviccenter.com
February 16, 2019
TMEA All-State Symphony Orchestra
Millennium Canons (Orchestra Version)
Lila Cockrell Theater
San Antonio, Texas
Purchase Tickets and more information: boxofficeticket
Friday, March 1, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Arizona Opera
Silent Night
Joseph Mechavich, Conductor
David King, Set Design
Symphony Hall, Phoenix, AZ
Purchase Tickets and more information: azopera.org
Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Arizona Opera
Silent Night
Joseph Mechavich, Conductor
David King, Set Design
Tucson Music Hall, Tucson, AZ
Purchase Tickets and more information: azopera.org
March 17, 2019
South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra
The City
Debartolo Performing Arts Center
Leighton Concert Hall
Notre Dame, IN
Purchase Tickets and more information: southbendsymphony.org
March 26, 2019
University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra
Marimba Concerto
Koger Center for the Performing Arts
Columbia, SC
Purchase Tickets and more information: kogercenterforthearts.com
Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Colorado Symphony
Oboe Concerto, “Moonlight”
Peter Cooper, oboe
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver, CO
Purchase Tickets and more information: coloradosymphony.org
Friday, May 10, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, May 11, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Indianapolis Symphony
Silent Night Elegy
Krzysztof Urbański, conductor
Hilbert Circle Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
Purchase Tickets and more information: indianapolissymphony
Saturday, August 10, 2019 at 8 pm
The Santa Fe Opera
Renée Fleming, Soprano
Letters from Georgia
The Crosby Theatre
Santa Fe, NM
Purchase Tickets and more information: santafeopera.org
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