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PRESS CONTACT
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Matthew Gray, Producing Director 718-398-4024, mgray@operaprojects.org
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PRESS RELEASES
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Fall 2013 - Fall 2014
AOP has been awarded a $12,600 OPERA America’s Building Opera Audiences grant to support AOP in the creation of a mobile application.
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Tuesday, July 9 through Sunday, July 14, 2013
As part of the Lincoln Center Festival 2013, AOP co-presents the World Premiere of Lera Auerbach's a capella opera The Blind, reconceived by director John La Bouchardière.
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Saturday, June 18 and Thursday, June 13, 2013
AOP (American Opera Projects), The Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, ClaverackLanding, and Symphony Space co-present the world premiere of Beauty Intolerable, a collection of love songs composed by Sheila Silver based on the poetry of iconoclast and libertine Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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September 2013-2015
AOP is now accepting applications from composers and librettists to participate in the 2013-15 season of Composers & the Voice.
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Click here for Press Releases for Past AOP Events
AOP ARTICLES, FEATURES, & REVIEWS
AMERICAN OPERA PROJECTS
March 13, 2013 - NEW MUSIC BOX
Industry profile: "Reports of the Death of Opera Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"
December 10, 2012 - WALL STREET JOURNAL
Industry profile: "Developmental Stages"
June 07, 2012 - WQXR
Industry profile: "When Opera Companies Place Audiences in the Action"
July 3, 2011 - PATCH.COM
Organization profile: "La Cage Au 'Fort'"
December 2008 - OPERA NEWS
Organization profile: American Opera Projects
ARVO PART / TARIK O'REGAN AT THE GUGGENHEIM
January 12, 2009 - CLASSICS TODAY
Opera review: ARVO PART / TARIK O'REGAN AT THE GUGGENHEIM
January 14, 2009 - THE HUFFINGTON POST
Opera profile: L'ABBE AGATHON
January 17, 2009 - WNET / THIRTEEN.ORG SUNDAY ARTS
Opera review: ARVO PART / TARIK O'REGAN AT THE GUGGENHEIM
February, 2009 - THE BROOKLYN RAIL
Opera review: ARVO PART / TARIK O'REGAN AT THE GUGGENHEIM
BEAUTY INTOLERABLE
June 6, 2013 - BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Composer profile: "Composer Sheila Silver pursues women's voices"
June 6, 2013 - BERKSHIRE EAGLE
Opera profile: BEAUTY INTOLERABLE
June 5, 2013 - REGISTER-STAR (Hudson. NY)
Opera profile: BEAUTY INTOLERABLE
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
January 4, 2012 - WHAT'S UP MIAMI
Opera preview : "Anticipation for BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, The Opera"
September 2010 - OPERA NEWS
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
July 5, 2010 - THE NATIONAL REVIEW
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
June 26, 2010 - THE WASHINGTON POST
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
June 7, 2010 - MY BIG GAY EARS (blog)
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
June 2, 2010 - FORT WORTH WEEKLY
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
May 31, 2010 - D MAGAZINE (DALLAS)
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
May 30, 2010 - THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
May 30, 2010 - ARTS & SEEK
Opera review : BEFORE NIGHT FALLS World Premiere, Fort Worth Opera
May 28, 2010 - DALLAS VOICE.COM
Opera profile : "Before Before Night Falls"
September 2006 - THE GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW
Opera profile : "Dreaming Opera: Adapting Before Night Falls"
May 4, 2005 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera workshop review: BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
BLESSED ART THOU AMONGST WOMEN
July 26, 2012 - ARTS JOURNAL blog
Opera review : BLESSED ART THOU AMONGST WOMEN at NJ Opera
July 5, 2012 - WQXR blog
Opera profile : "One-Person Shows: Star Vehicles but Compelling Drama?"
DARKLING
April 2012 - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE
Opera CD review: DARKLING
February 2012 - JUILLIARD JOURNAL
Opera CD review: DARKLING
January 24, 2012 - NEW MUSIC BOX
Opera CD review: DARKLING
January 17, 2012 - ENCOREMAG
Opera video profile: DARKLING
January 16, 2012 - THEATERMANIA
Opera CD review: "January's Collectible CDs"
January 9, 2012 - NOUSPIQUE.COM
Opera CD review: DARKLING
December 23, 2011 - PAGE4MUSIC
Opera profile: "Podcast: Stefan Weisman"
December 11, 2011 - "TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE" (PBS RADIO)
Opera profile: "Literature of memory: Anna Rabinowitz on Darkling"
December 1, 2011 - OUR TOWN
Opera profile: "Making Art in the Dark"
November 24, 2011 - NY CLASSICAL MUSIC EXAMINER
Opera CD review: "'Darkling' CD offers intriguing take on the problem of memory"
November 17, 2011 - JEWISH TELEGRAPH UK
Opera profile: "Anna's epic poem inspired by pictures"
November 14, 2011 - TIME OUT NY
Opera CD review: "Album review: Stefan Weisman and Anna Rabinowitz, Darkling"
March 30, 2006 - OPERA TODAY
Opera review: DARKLING
March 30, 2006 - OPERA TODAY
Opera review: DARKLING
March 9, 2006 - TIME OUT NY
Opera review: DARKLING
March 2, 2006 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: DARKLING
February 28, 2006 - NY SUN
Opera profile: DARKLING
February 27, 2006 - NIGHT AFTER NIGHT
Opera review: DARKLING
THE FAMILY ROOM
July 22, 2011 - WQXR
Opera profile: "A Triple-Hitter at Opera New Jersey'"
July 19, 2011 - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Opera workshop review: "Opera New Jersey in Princeton: 'Family Room,' 'Consul,' 'Barber of Seville'"
July 18, 2011 - NJ STAR-LEDGER
Opera workshop review: "Opera New Jersey's dramatic double bill: "The Consul" and "The Family Room""
July 18, 2011 - NJ STAR-LEDGER
Opera profile: "'Family' dynamics: Thomas Pasatieri's new opera, 'The Family Room,' is a mystery drama written for two great sopranos"
THE GOLDEN GATE
January 18, 2010 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: Workshop of The Golden Gate
January 18, 2010 - MUSICAL AMERICA
Opera review: Workshop of The Golden Gate
HARRIET TUBMAN
February 7, 2013 - NEW PALTZ ORACLE
Opera profile: "Rediscovering the Underground Railroad"
January 27, 2013 - ALMANAC WEEKLY
Opera profile: "SUNY New Paltz Professor to
Premiere New Opera About Harriet Tubman"
January 17, 2013 - MARYLAND.NEWSZAP.COM
Opera profile: "The year of Harriet Tubman has begun"
December 27, 2012 - CHRONOGRAM
Opera profile: "SUNY New Paltz Professor Gets Grant for Harriet Tubman Opera"
January 27, 2012 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera profile: "Songs, Some Coded, of Liberation"
February 3, 2008 - THE BALTIMORE SUN
Opera profile: "Tubman's Story of Bravery Set to Music"
HEART OF DARKNESS
December 10, 2012 - WALL STREET JOURNAL
Industry profile: "Developmental Stages"
December 2011 - THE CONRADIAN
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 8, 2011 - TIME OUT LONDON
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 8, 2011 - BACHTRACK
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 8, 2011 - OPERA CREEP/GEORGE'S MUSINGS
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 6, 2011 - OBSERVER (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 6, 2011 - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 5, 2011 - CLASSICALSOURCE
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 4, 2011 - City A.M./Daily Mail
Opera Critics Pick
Nov 4, 2011 - EVENING STANDARD
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 4, 2011 - OPERA TODAY
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 3, 2011 - WALL STREET JOURNAL
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 3, 2011 - INDEPENDENT (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 3, 2011 - THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 3, 2011 - SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 2, 2011 - GUARDIAN (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 2, 2011 - THE TELEGRAPH (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 3, 2011 - Time Out London
Opera Critics Pick: "Number 1 Critics' Choice, Five Best Concerts This Week"
Nov 2, 2011 - INTERMEZZO
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 2, 2011 - THE STAGE (UK)
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 2, 2011 - SHOW ME SOMETHING INTERESTING/JAMES EDWARD HUGHES
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 2, 2011 - MARK RONAN'S THEATRE REVIEWS
Opera review : HEART OF DARKNESS World Premiere, London ROH2
Nov 1, 2011 - Independent and "I"
Opera Critics Pick
Oct 31, 2011 - GUARDIAN (UK)
Opera profile : HEART OF DARKNESS, "Off the map: Heart of Darkness gets the opera treatment"
Oct 31, 2011 -Sunday Times (UK)
Opera Critics Pick
Oct 30, 2011 - Independent (UK) Information
Opera Critics Pick: "Ten Best Performances"
Oct 29, 2011 - Saturday Telegraph (UK)
Opera Critics Pick
May 21, 2007 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review (AOP workshop): HEART OF DARKNESS at WALL-TO-WALL 2007
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING
June 20, 2011 - WQXR
Opera profile: "Make Music NY Takes Opera to the Streets"
April 1, 2011 - PATCH.COM
Opera profile: "Poem by 8-year-old Turned Into Opera"
IN THE PENAL COLONY
December 16, 2011 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Best of 2011: In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass w String Orchestra of Brooklyn
October 6, 2011 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Opera review: In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass w String Orchestra of Brooklyn
October 4, 2011 - THE CLASSICAL REVIEW
Opera review: In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass w String Orchestra of Brooklyn
October 3, 2011 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass w String Orchestra of Brooklyn
JUDGMENT OF MIDAS
April 13, 2013 - THIRDCOASTDAILY.COM
Opera review: World Premiere of JUDGMENT OF MIDAS
April 13, 2013 - MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Opera review: World Premiere of JUDGMENT OF MIDAS
April 8, 2013 - EXPRESS MILWAUKEE
Opera profile: "Mythical Battle of Midas"
April 5, 2013 - MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Opera profile: "Present Music takes on opera in Ince's 'Judgment of Midas'"
December 12, 2012 - FANFARE MAGAZINE
Opera profile: "Journey to Judgment : Kamran Ince’s New Opera, With Help From Present Music"
LOST CHILDHOOD
August 1, 2007 - MA'ARIV
Opera workshop review: LOST CHILDHOOD
August 1, 2007 - HAARETZ
Opera workshop profile: LOST CHILDHOOD
May 20, 2005 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera workshop review: LOST CHILDHOOD
LOVE/HATE
June 20, 2012 - OPERA PULSE
Opera review: LOVE/HATE (excerpt from OPERA America New Works Sampler)
April 14, 2012 - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Opera review: LOVE/HATE
April 13, 2012 - THE OPERA TATTLER
Opera review: LOVE/HATE
April 12, 2012 - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Opera profile: "'Love/Hate' revisits 'Bus Stop'"
March 28, 2012 - SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
Opera profile: LOVE/HATE
NORA, IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS
April 5, 2011 - TIME OUT NY
Opera profile: "Jonesing for Nora: A short history of A Doll's House sequels"
NUMINOUS CITY
December 2, 2011 - GWARLINGO.COM
Opera profile/workshop review: "Peter Wyer’s New Opera Dramatizes One Tibetan Woman’s Journey to Freedom "
OPERATION BROOKLYN (fka OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN)
June 23, 2011 - AMSTERDAM NEWS
Opera profile: "Soprano Adrienne Danrich and the operatic journey"
June 23, 2011 - WQXR
Opera profile: "Top 5 Celebrations of Song"
July 12, 2010 - PARTERRE BOX
Opera review: OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN
July 12, 2010 - THE OPERA INSIDER
Opera review: OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN
April 18, 2010 - PARTERRE BOX
Opera review: OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN
April 3, 2009 - THE CURATOR
Opera review: OPERA GROWS IN BROOKLYN feat. LOVE/HATE
OUT COLD
March 13, 2013 - NEW MUSIC BOX
Opera profile: "Reports of the Death of Opera Have Been Greatly Exaggerated"
December 2012 - BROOKLYN RAIL
Opera review: "BAM Next Wave Part 1"
December 14, 2012 - WQXR
Year-in-review: "The Best and Worst of Opera in 2012"
November 1, 2012 - ARTS JOURNAL BLOG
Opera review: "Phil Kline's staged song cycle: Better seen or heard?"
October 27, 2012 - LUCID CULTURE
Opera review: "Three Transcendent Song Cycles by Phil Kline at BAM"
October 26, 2012 - NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: "Out Cold/Zippo Songs at Bam's Next Wave Festival"
October 19, 2012 - ARTS JOURNAL BLOG
Opera profile: "Great music- and opera - at the end of the line"
October 19, 2012 - BAM BLOG
Opera profile: "Schubert and Sinatra Walk into a Bar"
October 17, 2012 - CLASSICAL TV
Opera profile: "The Art of Song"
October 12, 2012 - LUCID CULTURE
Opera profile: "Ten Questions for Phil Kline"
PAUL'S CASE
April 29, 2013 - ARTS JOURNAL
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 24, 2013 - SCENE4.COM
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 23, 2013 - DCTHEATRESCENE.COM
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 22, 2013 - WASHINGTON POST
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 22, 2013 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 21, 2013 - DC METRO THEATER ARTS
Opera review: World Premiere of PAUL'S CASE
April 19, 2013 - WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Opera profile: "Composer Gregory Spears on Paul’s Case of Disaffected Dandyism"
September 13, 2009 - MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL
Opera review: Workshop of PAUL'S CASE
December 13, 2009 - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Best of 2009: Workshop of PAUL'S CASE
PIECES OF PAPER - 9-11 MEMORIAL CONCERT
September 12, 2011 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Concert review: 9-11 Memorial Concert at Irondale Center
ROMULUS
January 2012 - OPERA NEWS
Opera CD review: ROMULUS
Awards 2011 - GRAMOPHONE
Opera CD review: ROMULUS
June 19, 2011 - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Opera CD review: ROMULUS
May 22, 2007 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: ROMULUS
Oct. 2007 - CLASSICAL SINGER MAGAZINE
Opera profile: ROMULUS
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
November 21, 2009 - TIME OUT NY
Opera review: Workshop of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
THE SUMMER KING
April 15, 2012 - PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
Opera concert review: THE SUMMER KING
April 8, 2012 - PORTLAND PRESS HERALD
Opera profile: "Classical Beat: Back Cove Festival features 'Summer King'"
September 14, 2007 - UMPBUMP.COM
Opera profile: THE SUMMER KING
September 5, 2007 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Opera workshop profile: THE SUMMER KING
August 23, 2007 - COURIER-LIFE PUBLICATIONS (Brooklyn, NY)
Opera profile: THE SUMMER KING
March 12, 2007 - THE PHOENIX (Portland, ME)
Opera profile: THE SUMMER KING
THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
April 11, 2013 - GO MEMPHIS
Opera review: THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING (Opera Memphis premiere)
April 30, 2008 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Opera review: THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
May 1, 2008 - THE NEW YORK SUN
Opera review: THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
June 2008 - OPERA NEWS
Opera review: THIS IS THE RILL SPEAKING
THE WANTON SUBLIME
July 26, 2012 - ARTS JOURNAL blog
Opera review : BLESSED ART THOU AMONGST WOMEN at NJ Opera
July 5, 2012 - WQXR blog
Opera profile : "One-Person Shows: Star Vehicles but Compelling Drama?"
WOLF-IN-SKINS
January 30, 2013 - THINKINGDANCE.NET
Opera review : WOLF-IN-SKINS, ACT ONE workshop, Philadelphia, PA
January 29, 2013 - THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Opera review : WOLF-IN-SKINS, ACT ONE workshop, Philadelphia, PA
January 24, 2013 - EDGE PHILADELPHIA
Opera profile : "’Wolf-In-Skins’ :: New Dance/Opera Piece Gets Philly Outing"
January 24, 2013 - PHILADELPHIA CITYPAPER
Opera preview : "Wolf-In-Skins"
January 22, 2013 - TEMPLE NEWS
Opera profile : "Wolf-in-Skins ushers in start of the semester"
January 21, 2013 - THE DANCE JOURNAL
Opera profile : "Wolf-In-Skins previews at Philadelphia Dance Projects"
January 21, 2013 - THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Opera profile : "Beasts of a Musical Wild"
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