Press Releases
(Phoenix, Tuc) Arizona Opera Board Chairman Robert Tancer has announced that Ryan Taylor has accepted the position of Minnesota Opera’s General Director. Minnesota Opera is one of the top opera companies in the country, and the organization where Ryan began his career in opera as a Resident Artist.
Do you know the Ring Cycle from The Lord of the Rings? Do you think Donner is just a reindeer? If you're naive about the Nibelung and your Wagner is weak, don’t miss the Ring Cycle lecture series at the Tucson Museum of Art, coming in April 2016.
(Phoenix, Ariz.) In conjunction with Arizona Opera's new community-based artistic initiative, Arizona Bold, the company presents a short preview of a new operatic work in development, The Copper Queen on January 3 at 3:00 p.m. at the Arizona Opera Center in Phoenix.
(Phoenix, Tucson, Ariz.) Opera's most infamous seductress, CARMEN, will ignite downtown when Arizona Opera performs the sultry classic January 30 at 7:30 and January 31 at 2:00 pm in the Tucson Music Hall, and February 5 and 6 at 7:30 and February 7 at 2:00 pm in Symphony Hall.
The holiday season in Phoenix now includes music from Arizona Opera and the Phoenix Theatre! Singers from Arizona Opera will perform selections from memorable holiday movie favorites such as White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, and A Charlie Brown Christmas at the Phoenix Theatre.
Celebrated Mexican-American composer Daniel Catán was not one to shy away from an ambitious project. Catán used Nobel prizewinning novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s stories and characters as inspiration for his breakthrough opera, Florencia en el Amazonas, which premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 1996.
The first musical theater productions in America were, not surprisingly, operas. Before the 20th century, light operettas imported from Europe dominated the American stage, until the innovations of George M. Cohan and others began to create a truly American form of musical theater in the early 20th Century.
Lush and exotic, Arizona Opera's Florencia en el Amazonas takes the stage in November.
Mexican composer Daniel Catán's mystical cruise through the Amazon inspired by Gabriel García Márquez.
First Spanish opera commissioned in the U.S. makes its Phoenix and Tucson debut.
Exótica y exuberante, Florencia en el Amazonas se estrena en noviembre en Arizona Opera.
El viaje místico a través del Amazonas del compositor mexicano Daniel Catán fue inspirado por Gabriel García Márquez
La primera ópera en Español difundida en Estados Unidos hace debut en Phoenix y Tucson
(Phoenix, Tucson) The story of Arizona Lady is told for laughs. Centered on the efforts of the feisty Lona Farrell to succeed at ranching in her new Arizona home, it combines the state's cowboy heritage and Southwestern flair with the banter, wacky characters and plot twists of comedic Viennese operetta. Lona confronts thieves, romance and horseracing in equal measure.