Stéphane Denève: The Second Artistic Director of the New World Symphony
STÉPHANE DENÈVE is the new Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and will also be Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
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Soprano Cecilia Violetta López
CECILIA VIOLETTA LÓPEZ was named one of “Idaho’s Top 10 Most Influential Women of the Century” by “USA Today” and one of opera’s “25 Rising Stars” by “Opera News.”
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Michael Ching: From Opera to Opry
MICHAEL CHING is an American composer, conductor, and music administrator. He is best known nationally as the composer of innovative operas, including his a cappella adaptation of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (2011). His other major operas include “Buoso’s Ghost” (1996), “Corps of Discovery” (2003), “Slaying the Dragon” (2012), “Speed Dating Tonight!” (2013), and “Alice Ryley” (2015). He wrote the librettos of many of his own operas. He also writes & performs Country music.
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Allen Klein & Bliss Hebert: A Lifetime of Making Opera
ALLEN CHARLES KLEIN (1938-2023) is the only American designer to have focused his career exclusively to the production of design for the opera stage, and together with BLISS HEBERT as director, has created more than seventy new productions. BLISS HEBERT (b.1930) has staged over three hundred productions of one hundred operas with forty-one different opera companies.
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Stephanie Doche, Operatic Mezzo-soprano
STEPHANIE DOCHE has rapidly created an important place for herself among today’s rising mezzos. A singing actress of outstanding technical and interpretive skill, Doche (rhymes with posh) has starred in leading roles nationwide, distinguishing herself in diverse styles and repertoire.
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