Austin Opera is ending their 2023-24 season with the red-hot opera Bizet’s Carmen. The cast is full of young singers, many of whom are making their debut with the Austin Opera.
CEO Annie Burridge is hoping this super popular work from Bizet will entice audiences back to the Long Center after the hibernation forced upon us by Covid.
The Austin Opera is about to do something they’ve never done before.
They are presenting the world’s first Mariachi Opera, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. It will also be the first time they are staging an opera sung in Spanish with help from the new Butler Fund for Spanish Programming. Some of the cast is from Ópera de Bellas Artes, the national opera company of Mexico.
Austin Opera General Director and CEO, Annie Burridge says this production is the first of many.
In this month of September, your ears will be filled with the sound of STILLPOINT. It’s Awadagin Pratt’s latest album. He’s performing music he commissioned from several composers of color.
You can hear the life and times of Aaron P. Dworkin’s in his debut spoken word album The Poetjournalist.
Malakai Bayoh didn’t win Britian’s Got Talent 2023. The 14-year-old DID win a record deal and his debut album Golden is out and about.
Opportunities abound all over the BIPOC spectrum.
Austin Opera has a program for Latinx creatives.
There’s a leadership opportunity at the Delaware Symphony Orchestra.
South Africa’s National Arts Festival is calling for creatives of all types for their 2024 event.
Composers might want to write what could become the Best Symphonia of the Year.