Palm Beach Opera season
Palm Beach Opera announced its 2015 mainstage opera season to include two "time-tested" works (read war horses) and the world premiere of Enemies, A Love Story with music by Ben Moore, libretto by Nahma Sandrow, based on the book by Isaac Bashevis Singer February 20-22. Details.Dallas Opera season
The new opera “Death and the Powers” was composed by Tod Machover and developed at the MIT Media Lab. A science fiction work with robots alongside actors and computers joinging the sounds of the orchestra. Performed as a simulcast, it’s also exploring the world of audience interaction through technology. The Dallas Opera will host the opera that will be simulcast to as many as 10 other cities in the U.S. and abroad, on Feb. 16. Details.Opera America commission
Opera America commissioned women’s opera in December
, and the support of new music expands to symphonic music, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin
Foundation program. The new
orchestral project, announced on Wednesday by the League of American Orchestras, is to be administered by the league, and is part of EarShot, a national network of orchestras that offer readings and workshops for composers in the early stages of their careers. The composers participating in EarShot
include men and women, but only the women will be candidates for two
Toulmin Foundation commissions. The commission fee is $15,000, and
includes a premiere of the commissioned work. Details.
Fort Worth Opera festival
Fort Worth Opera will cut back its 2015 festival to three productions, indefinitely delaying the planned world
premiere of American composer Libby Larsen’s "A Wrinkle in Time." Repertory for the 2015 season
will comprise two productions, still to be announced, plus the chamber opera "Dog Days" by composer David T.
Little and librettist Royce Vavrek.
