Beth Morrison News

OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2024 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors.

ArtsEmerson will present BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS. Dive into an immersive journey of ancient myths and legends in this unique performance.

Discover Pacific Opera Project's 2024-2025 season, featuring the LA premiere of RUSALKA, US premiere of LA SCUOLA DE' GELOSI, and a co-production of H.M.S. PINAFORE with Opera Las Vegas.

HERE will honor Founding Artistic Director Kristin Marting at HERE’s 30th Anniversary Gala on June 3, 2024.

Elizabeth Askren has been appointed as Hawai'i Opera Theatre's Inaugural Principal Guest Conductor. Learn more about this conductor, educator, and cultural activist.

Elizabeth Askren has been named the first-ever Principal Guest Conductor of Hawai'i Opera Theatre.

ART Station will present The Wild Women of Winedale from February 29 to March 10. Learn more about the production here!

Up Until Now Collective brings a multi-sensory installation to JACK! Experience a unique immersive art experience from March 8th - March 24th.

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet will continue its 2023-24 season with the world premiere of Vox, to an original score for piano and violin by young composer Elizabeth Gartman, and Magloire's Wood Nymphs, set to romantic piano pieces by Franz Liszt, February 16 & 17 at the Mark Morris Dance Center.

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

City Opera Vancouver presents 'Song from the Uproar’ - a Celebration of Early Feminist Icon, Isabelle Eberhardt. Explore the adventurous and tragic life of Isabelle Eberhardt, an explorer, journalist, and sufi, in this Canadian premiere.

Join John Hume and Friends for an evening of movie-themed music at The Green Room 42.

Another year has come to an end for the Prototype Festival of new opera theatre-music theatre, under the banner of Beth Morrison Projects and HERE. For those of us who couldn’t make it to all the shows on display at various venues around town, it’s always something of a crapshoot: Which ones do you choose? This week, for me, it was the Mary Kouyoumdjian-Royce Vavrek ADORATION, based on the eponymous Atom Egoyan film.

ISOLA–a prismatic meditation on time, mental health and isolation– is the new opera by composer Alyssa Weinberg with a text by poet J. Mae Barizo that launches Long Beach Opera's 2024 Season.

Washington National Opera will present the 11th season of American Opera Initiative (AOI), an acclaimed initiative to commission and present new American operas, on January 19, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. T

Miro Magloire's New Chamber Ballet continues its 2023-24 season with the world premiere of Vox, to an original score for piano and violin by young composer Elizabeth Gartman, and Magloire's Wood Nymphs, set to romantic piano pieces by Franz Liszt, February 17 & 18 at the Mark Morris Dance Center, 3 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn.

Huang Ruo’s artistically bold, viscerally devastating ANGEL ISLAND had its local debut the other night at BAM’s Harvey Theatre on Brooklyn’s Fulton Street, produced by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) and BAM. Its New York premiere is part of the annual Prototype Festival of opera theatre-music theatre--co-founded by BMP and HERE--which has been bringing challenging contemporary works of different stripes to town since 2013.

Due to popular demand, the Obie award-winning HERE has extended the world premiere of Terce: A Practical Breviary to February 4, 2024.

Chicago Opera Theater (COT), Chicago's foremost producer of new and reimagined opera, continues its 50th Anniversary season with the Midwest Premiere of Huang Ruo's environmentalist opera Book of Mountains and Seas presented in partnership with the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and produced by Beth Morrison Projects.

David T. Little's GRAMMY-Nominated 'Black Lodge' opera film, with libretto by Anne Waldman, streams live on YouTube. Watch the new 'Electric Cerberus' music video.