September 23, 2016 – September 11, 2016
Sep 2016
Bizet's Carmen
Boston Lyric Opera • Boston
A co-production between Boston Lyric Opera and San Francisco Opera
Music by Georges Bizet
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy
Production: Calixto Bieito
Revival Director: Joan Anton Rechi
Scenic Design: Alfons Flores
Sung in French with English supertitles
The 2016/17 season launches in September with the bicoastal American premiere of Calixto Bieito’s cinematic Carmen in a co-production with San Francisco Opera – opening May 2016 – marking the director’s long-awaited U.S. opera debut. Set in the arid earthiness of post-Franco Spain, this is a powerful account of a defiantly free-spirited woman and her obsessive lover. Jennifer Johnson Cano, critically acclaimed for her star turn in last year’s Don Giovanni, returns to Boston as the fiery, seductive gypsy who destroys the naïve soldier Don José, played by Roger Honeywell. Michael Mayes and Chelsea Basler return to BLO, and BLO Music Director David Angus conducts.
Sep 2016
One Voice Orlando - A Celebration in Song
Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts • Orlando
Opera responds to the Pulse Night Club Tragedy with a benefit concert that supports the vital infrastructure that supports diversity and understanding in our community. Opera Orlando has coordinated a concert featuring some of the art form’s brightest national stars supported by professional musicians from throughout Florida. Internationally-renowned David Charles Abell will conduct and legendary baritone Sherrill Milnes will be one of the evening’s hosts. Tickets are $25-$125 and go on sale August 19th. Opera Orlando will be joined by the Orlando Ballet and several opera companies from across the state including Opera Tampa, Opera Naples, St. Petersburg Opera, Sarasota Opera, First Coast Opera, and others. Pulitzer Prize winners Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell will also be presenting a new vocal work at this concert.
Artists include sopranos Ana Maria Martinez, Sarah Joy Miller, and Cecilia Violetta Lopez, Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, tenors Chad Johnson and Javier Abreu, and baritones Mark Walters and Davis Gaines, all joined by an over 50 piece orchestra from across greater Central Florida and a 150 voice mass chorus put together by opera companies from across the state.