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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Associate Conductor will conduct Young People's Concerts and work throughout the community.
 

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announced that Keitaro Harada will join the CSO staff as Associate Conductor beginning in September 2015. Mr. Harada's duties will include assisting the conductors of the CSO, Cincinnati Pops and May Festival, conducting for all Young People's Concerts, the World Piano Competition, as well as select Lollipops, Pops subscription concerts and other local/regional performances, and representing the Orchestra in community engagement initiatives. 
 

Friday, April 10, 2015

Company seeks to raise $500,000 in donations with representation from all 50 states by June 30, 2015.

Following two successful consecutive Million Dollar May campaigns in 2013 and 2014, General Director Ryan Taylor announced Arizona Opera's 2015 Spring Campaign: 50 for 500.
 
The opera company seeks to raise $500,000 by June 30, 2015, with gifts from all 50 states. The campaign is being kicked off with a $100,000 gift from a generous donor from Tucson and seeks to solidify the company's overwhelming turn around in just two seasons.
 

Friday, March 27, 2015

The four works of this program (to be performed without intermission) are among the most notable chamber works by composers whose lives, works and careers were harmed or
destroyed by the political machinery of the Nazi years in Europe. The “Recovered Voices” Initiative is a continuation of the mission of conductor James Conlon to connect performing musicians and audiences with these long-neglected composers and works.

 

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Arizona Opera concludes its 2014/15 season with Gaetano Donizetti's whimsical and hilarious romp, The Daughter of the Regiment, a bright, sparkling comedy following Marie, a feisty young girl raised by a regiment of French soldiers high in the Alps.  Peppered with exhilarating melodies, astonishing high notes and outrageous fun, Marie grappels between her patriotic loyalty to her "dear brothers" and the expectations of "polite" society. 
 

Friday, February 13, 2015

Arizona Opera At Cresent Ballroom

February 18 at 8:00pm. 

 

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

New Production inspired by surrealism of René Magritte and Steampunk Movement
February 27-March 1 in Symphony Hall, Phoenix
March 7 & 8 in Tucson Music Hall, Tucson

 

 

 

Arizona Opera brings a brand new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute to the stage, February 27th and 28th at 7:30 pm and March 1st at 2 pm in Symphony Hall in Phoenix; and March 7th at 7:30 pm and March 8th at 2:00 pm in Tucson Music Hall, Tucson. 

 

Friday, January 23, 2015

 Director Ryan Taylor has revealed the Arizona Opera's 2015/16 Season, which opens in October 2015.   The coming season will be an astounding collection of "firsts" for the company, including three works never before seen in Arizona: Emmerich Kálmán's Arizona Lady, Mexican composer Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas, and Giuseppe Verdi's riotous comedy Falstaff. Arizona Opera also presents productions of Bizet's Carmen and Mozart's Don Giovanni that are new to its statewide audiences.

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Arizona Opera's "Big Date Night"
February 14, 2015 at 6 pm

 

Arizona Opera brings one of the biggest names from the operatic stage, Deborah Voigt, to headline its 2015 Gala, Big Date Night.

Monday, January 5, 2015

Arizona Opera and Children's Museum of Phoenix Invite Children to Discover MOZART'S THE MAGIC FLUTE
Engaging events, special ticket offers for families Events Kick Off Jan 17

 

Monday, December 8, 2014

(Phoenix & Tucson) Arizona Opera kicks off 2015 with one of the greatest dramas in the operatic repertoire, Eugene Onegin. From Pushkin's classic poem comes Tchaikovsky's theatrical masterpiece which follows the story of Eugene Onegin -  a man egotistical enough to turn his back on love and a gun on his best friend.

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