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Jan 23, 2025 | 
wclk.com | Terence Blanchard
Spivey Hall continues its season of jazz performances with the one and only Terence Blanchard Sextet on Saturday, April 26 at 7:30pm. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans native Terence Blanchard created an impassioned, Grammy® Award-winning tour-de-force of anger, rage, compassion, melancholy, and beauty performed by Blanchard’s sextet. To commemorate this tragedy and pay homage to its victims, Blanchard is touring this work in 2025, including this performance at Spivey Hall.
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Terence Blanchard
I Am Not Who You Want Me to Behttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/special-series/terence-blanchard-black-identity.htmlThe Big Ideas: Who Do You Think You Are? If you think you can define a musician’s identity only by his past work, listen again. Dancers perform a scene during a rehearsal for Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.Credit...Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesBy Terence BlanchardMr. Blanchard is a musician and composer.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |Stephi Wild
OPERA America has announced the next cycle of IDEA Opera Grants (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access), a program that supports composers and librettists who identify as Arab, Asian, Black, Latinx, Native American, and/or Pacific Islander in the development of new operatic works and the advancement of their careers in the opera industry.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |Chloe Rabinowitz
Audiences will enjoy an evening as colorful and enchanting as the surrealistic paintings and fiery personality of famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo as Opera Naples presents "Frida" Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4-5, at Cambier Park, 601 Park St., Naples. "Frida" is the grand finale of Opera Naples' third annual Festival Under the Stars, a two-week outdoor event March 21 to April 5.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |A.A. Cristi
This April, The Royal Opera stages the long-awaited UK premiere of Innocence. The original creative team are reunited at Covent Garden alongside an outstanding ensemble cast, following the production's triumphant world premiere at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in 2021. The piece, which defies categorisation, has been described as the most powerful work of composer Kaija Saariaho's five-decade career (New York Times).
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Mar 24, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |Chloe Rabinowitz
Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) have announced the next events in their joint program, Opera Fusion: New Works. Opera Fusion: New Works (OF:NW) is a creative partnership between CCM and Cincinnati Opera that fosters the development of new operatic works. Through OF:NW, composers and librettists are given a 10-day workshop to hone their operas-in-progress and further prepare them for the opera stage.
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Mar 23, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |A.A. Cristi
Madison Opera concludes its mainstage season with its first production in over a decade of Mozart's classic The Marriage of Figaro. Performances are Friday, April 28 at 8pm and Sunday, April 30 at 2:30pm in Overture Hall at the Overture Center for the Arts. Set in 18th century Spain, The Marriage of Figaro takes place over the course of one day. Susanna and Figaro, servants in Count and Countess Almaviva's household, attempt to get married, despite the Count's objection and advances on Susanna.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |A.A. Cristi
San Diego Opera's 2022-2023 season comes to a close with Zach Redler's opera about military spirit with The Falling and the Rising. The Falling and the Rising opens May 12, 2022 at 7:30 PM at the Balboa Theatre as part of the dētour Series. Additional performances are May 13 at 7:30 PM and May 14 at 1 PM. The Falling and the Rising is a co-commission between San Diego Opera, the US Army Field Band and Soldier's Chorus, Seattle Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Memphis, TCU, and Seagle Music Colony.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |A.A. Cristi
Sarasota Opera has announced that Florida native Cameron Maxwell has been hired as the new Youth Opera Coordinator. Ms. Maxwell will be the administrator for Sarasota Youth Opera programs and performances and will also be the liaison to the parents and community. Sarasota Youth Opera is currently in its winter semester and is now working towards the Youth Opera Summer Camp to be held this June.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
broadwayworld.com | Terence Blanchard |A.A. Cristi
The Greek National Opera today announced its events honoring Maria Callas, the greatest soprano of the 20th century with a series of tributes curated by the Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera Giorgos Koumendakis, taking place from April to December 2023.
