Tobin Stokes

Coming this fall? Super!

🤦 When a librettist writes an intricate phrase with a twist and a pause and an arc and then the composer is all, I’m just gonna machine gun this with eighth notes and get ‘er done!

Unsuk Chin’s new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes was meant to be a must-see — so what went wrong? News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

Unsuk Chin’s new opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes was meant to be a must-see — so what went wrong?

https://www.ft.com/content/d0f6db3e-02e9-4e1f-abcf-2a309f8b0fb7

Complications in Sue - Complications in Sue One librettist, one actor, four singers, and ten composers join forces to make opera in a brand-new way. In his first opera libretto, Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson (A S...

Opera Philadelphia 2025–26 season just went on sale, and again *every* seat in the house is available for as low as $11. Bought my tickets for 'Complications in Sue,' the new opera by 'A Strange Loop' playwright Michael R. Jackson with 10 brilliant composers. www.operaphila.org/whats-on/252...

a digital poster at the Metropolitan Opera House box office that shows Gerald Finley as Mark Antony dipping back Julia Bullock as Cleopatra. it announces ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA OPENS TONIGHT

A mirror selfie of a plus size woman with red hair wearing a dress patterned with van Gogh’s Starry Night

The Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 SEASON The Metropolitan Opera premiere of JOHN ADAMS'S ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA This performance is being broadcast live on the SiriusXM app and streamed at metopera.org. CONDUCTOR John Adams IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE CLEOPATRA Julia Bullock CHARMIAN Taylor Raven DEBUT ANTONY Gerald Finley EROS Brenton Ryan ENOBARBUS Alfred Walker* CAESAR Paul Appleby* AGRIPPA Jarrett Ott DEBUT LEPIDUS Kevin Short OCTAVIA Elizabeth DeShong SCARUS Michael Adams IRAS Eve Gigliotti Monday, May 12, 2025, 7:30-10:55PM

messenger screenshot: ozymegdias: oh my GOD this shit rips twiliteisntlit: what a way to word that, lol ozymegdias: genuinely had to stop myself from shouting that at Adams as soon as the lights came back up twiliteisntlit: you've gone full tilt opera, good lord ozymegdias: listen this was always a latent threat

[dril voice] modernist opera. I live for this

I co-created a show (Victoria, BC, Canada) that features these five uber talented, wonderful human beings at The Belfry Theatre. Shows are selling out so our run's extended to May 25th. Ticket prices remain fair and flexible.

Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera The Curing Line, which is due to premiere at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2026, has scooped one of the world’s largest opera awards

So delighted to see this. Excellent bunch of people.

Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera

www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...

I heard Sarah this evening. Um, wow!

Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’ The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape.

“The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, opens next month at the Detroit Opera House. We spoke with the company about the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at Donald Trump's reactive presidency.

Congrats! That’s quick writing!

#newopera

#newopera

Check out the new opera feed I'm attempting to curate using the skyfeed builder. It's a bit like herding cats. Meow. Search "brand new opera' in your feeds tab (the # ).

Sweat – a film by The Bicycle Opera Project | OPERA America Watch the video and learn more about SWEAT, an Artistic Creation Winner in the 2024 Awards for Digital Excellence.

“Sweat” wins the Digital Excellence in Opera award. I mean, of course it did! #newopera www.operaamerica.org/industry-res...

Here’s a brand new opera that’s 138 yrs old already:

LIBLAB - Tapestry Opera Tapestry Opera’s Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LIBLAB) is Canada’s flagship opera creation intensive. Applications now open!

Please share far and wide.

Application deadline Sunday, February 2, 2025
Program dates: July 15 – 25, 2025 in Toronto.

📷: Bruno Roy at the 2022 LIBLAB, by Dahlia Katz

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‘It’s really a very dark comedy’: Festen, the explosive opera based on the dinner-party-from-hell film The Danish film about racism, child abuse and self-harm caused jaws to drop in the 90s. Can it work as opera? Absolutely, say lyricist Lee Hall and composer Mark-Anthony Turnage

#newopera www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Repertoire & Opera Explorer updated November 2024: Repertoire Explorer and Opera Explorer. New: 15 full scores, 5 chamber music "Beyond the Waves", book, special edition

For all those interested in tracking down scores and parts of music by less well-known composers, do check out repertoire-explorer.musikmph.de/en/ - it's true that most of the composers are white men, but not all (some nice Amy Beach in the mix, for instance)...

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Hi friends and new followers! I manage a list of opera companies on Bluesky - pls let me know if I miss one.

Life is short and there really are a lot of cheeses

New Works Showcase: An opera for the deaf? That was impressive! Next: not sure the middle two are worth pursuing. Finally, I loved the kung fu monkey puppet but please tell me why this needs to be an opera. (The speaker and puppet were fantastic without any singing.) #newopera #operaamerica

There it waits in measure 974. #exterminatingangel #ades

The Listeners | Theater und Philharmonie Essen (TUP) The Listeners, Oper in zwei Akten von Missy Mazzoli, Libretto von Royce Vavrek nach der Erzählung von Jordan Tannahill, Besetzung: Claire Devon: Betsy Horne, Paul Devon: Mandla Mndebele, Ashley Devon:...

The Listeners opens in Germany soon. One of the highlights of this new opera ('22) for me is Mazzoli's orchestral writing when supporting the layered chorus. It's rare to hear something so full, unique, and powerful these days, and it happens in a few places.

The Tongue &amp; The Lash and A Return to Civic Discourse • The Town Hall <p>On February 18, 1965 as the Civil Rights movement gripped the U.S., another epochal event centered on race relations was being waged at the University of Cambridge between cultural giants, author/a...

A new opera (2021) by Damien Sneed and Karen Chilton, Feb 18th at New York Town Hall.

A tricky new opera:

Leevi Madetoja: The Ostrobothnians - Finnish National Opera Helsinki - Watch the full programme | ARTE Concert Finland may be the happiest country on earth, but it is also known as the land of a thousand sad songs. Lurking in the shadows of this Nordic welfare state are violence, alcoholism and inequality. A c...

Yay! Next streaming on #arte! (New to me. Can’t wait!)

Playlist of Video from the World Premiere Opera "Grounded" | Washington National Opera <strong data-cart-timer="" role="text"></strong>

An excellent quick dive (eight short vids) into the creation – and subject matter – of "Grounded" by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant: www.kennedy-center.org/video/digita...

Opera is for Everyone Although opera has a reputation as an antiquated pastime for rich people, this thrilling art form ought to be enjoyed by all.

Opera is not merely pleasurable but necessary, and keeping it alive means transforming institutions like the Met into palaces of the people: places where the productions are accessible to anyone in need of the succor and catharsis that great opera can provide. www.currentaffairs.org/news/opera-i...

New Works Showcase | OPERA America January 16, 2025 • A showcase of developing new work selected from applicants across the country, celebrating contemporary composers and librettists.

So this is happening soon. You can sign up and watch online for exactly zero dollars:
#operaamerica