Minnesota Opera
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Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in
A number of operas have also received their American premieres at the Minnesota Opera, including
Minnesota Opera's season typically runs from September through April, with five productions per season and five to eight performances of each production. Performances are given at the
Non-standard repertoire
While much from the standard repertoire is performed, the company has distinguished itself with productions of some unusual and rare operas in the last decade.
These include
The 2005/06 season saw several American premieres, including appeared in 2003/04 while the previous season saw another American premiere, The Handmaid's Tale by Poul Ruders. In 2001/02 Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Mark Adamo's Little Women provided a contrast. Early in the decade, Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues and Kurt Weill's Street Scene were highlights of the 2000/01 season.
In 2011, Bernard Herrmann's sole opera Wuthering Heights was presented. The full opera has yet to receive a staging, as the official world premiere by Portland Opera in 1982 was abridged by some 30 minutes.
In 2011, Minnesota Opera produced Silent Night by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, an MN Opera commission that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 2013, Minnesota Opera commissioned the opera Doubt by composer Douglas J. Cuomo and librettist John Patrick Shanley.
In March 2015, the company gave the premiere performance of Kevin Puts' opera The Manchurian Candidate (based on Richard Condon's novel, with libretto by Mark Campbell).[3]
In May 2016, Minnesota Opera produced The Shining, a newly commissioned American opera in two acts with music by composer Paul Moravec and a libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the novel by Stephen King. It is part of the 'New Works Initiative' of Minnesota Opera.
A complete list of earlier seasons' productions appears on the company's web site[4]
Notes
- ^ "Staff & Board of Directors". Minnesota Opera. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ^ "Meet Ryan Taylor, Minnesota Opera's 'new quarterback'". MinnPost. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
- ^ "The Manchurian Candidate | Minnesota Opera". mnopera.org. 2014. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ Past repertoire on mnopera.org (PDF) Retrieved 22 February 2016