Cincinnati Opera

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Cincinnati Opera
FormerlyCincinnati Opera Association
Company typeOpera company
Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Revenue7,337,052 United States dollar (2017) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.cincinnatiopera.org Edit this on Wikidata

Cincinnati Opera is an American

Cincinnati, Ohio and the second oldest opera company in the United States (after the New York Metropolitan Opera).[1] Beginning with its first season in 1920, Cincinnati Opera has produced operas in the summer months of June and July with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
providing orchestral accompaniment.

History

The company, originally named Cincinnati Opera Association, gave its first performance,

Cincinnati Music Hall on April 29, 1926, following Lyford's departure from Cincinnati Opera in 1925.[2] From 1956-1990 the company ran a singing competition known as the American Opera Auditions
.

Andrew Foldi as Dr. Dulcamara and Bruce Cooper as his assistant Cochise in Act 1, Scene 2 of Cincinnati Opera's 1968 "Wild West" production of L'elisir d'amore
directed by James de Blasis.

For most of its first fifty years, Cincinnati Opera's performances were held at the

Aronoff Center for the Arts instead. The Opera returned to Cincinnati Music Hall for its 2018 season, and has performed there since.[4]

The Opera under James de Blasis

James de Blasis became the company's Resident Stage Director in 1968. He then served as its General Director from 1973 to 1987. In 1988 he became its Artistic Director, a post which he held until 1996.

Under his tenure, the company produced rare operas such as

Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore which changed the setting from the Basque region of Spain in the 1820s to the "Wild West" of late 19th century Texas. The production was filmed by PBS
and nationally televised in 1968.

The company under Nicholas Muni

In 1996, the internationally-known stage director Nicholas Muni succeeded James de Blasis as Artistic Director of the company. Under his leadership Cincinnati Opera further enlarged its repertory with many company premieres outside the standard repertory including

Opera Company of Philadelphia). The Cincinnati performances coincided with the opening of Cincinnati's National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and starred Denyce Graves
in the title role.

The company under Evans Mirageas

In 2006, Evans Mirageas, an influential casting director and former head of Decca's Artists & Repertoire division, became Cincinnati Opera's new Artistic Director. Following his first season with the company, Opera News magazine listed him as one of the "25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera".[6]

The 2008 Summer Festival, the first to be fully programmed by Mirageas, included the French version of

Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires
.

In 2012

Memorial Hall; outdoor concerts in Washington Park; and small-scale productions in the 750-seat Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts
.

Performances in the Corbett Theater have included Philip Glass's Galileo Galilei (2013) and Francesco Cavalli's 1651 opera La Calisto (2014), and the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and William M. Hoffman's Morning Star.

While

Robert Xavier Rodríguez, a silent film-styled The Magic Flute, and a production of Missy Mazzoli's new opera Song from the Uproar.[7]

Cincinnati Opera moved back to

The Flying Dutchman, the U.S. premiere of Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera, a new production of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, and a company premiere of Laura Kaminsky's As One, a coming-of-age opera about a transgender woman.[8]

Opera Fusion: New Works

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). The organization is dedicated to fostering the development of new American operas, and has developed nine pieces to date through a rigorous residency and workshop process. This collaboration is jointly led by Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, and Robin Guarino
, Professor of Opera at CCM.

References

Notes

  1. ^ Salzman (2 July 1961)
  2. ^ Hipsher (1927) p. 306
  3. ^ Winternitz & Bellman, p. 190
  4. ^ "History". Cincinnati Opera. Retrieved Jun 6, 2019.
  5. ^ Gelfand (1 October 2004)
  6. ^ Matthew Westphal, Oh, those lists… We love them, we love to hate them, we love to pass them around and argue with them…, Playbill, 14 July 2006. Accessed 10 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Opera's 2017 festival mixes old favorites, new wave". Cincinnati.com. 6 October 2016. Retrieved Jun 6, 2019.
  8. ^ "Ambitious fare planned for Cincinnati Opera's move back to Music Hall". Cincinnati.com. 14 July 2017. Retrieved Jun 6, 2019.

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External links
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