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April 10 2026

Working for the Macbeths
  • The Department of Voice & Opera presents the comic opera “Working for the Macbeths” (2023) with music by Johanny Navarro and libretto by Marcus Yi.

April 18 2026

West Side Story
  • In a fully staged production, the timeless story of forbidden love comes to life with Leonard Bernstein’s unforgettable score, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, and electrifying choreography.

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January, 09 2026

The House on Mango Street

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The House on Mango Street

November , 28, 2025

Archivo de entrevistas 2018 - Ópera Latinoamérica

Bajo la Lupa: Entrevista a Chía Patiño

Entrevista con la Regisseur, Directora Ejecutiva y Artística del Teatro Nacional Sucre luego de la presentación de su nueva producción La flauta mágica de los Andes, una cosmovisión andina del clásico de Mozart

Por Ximena Sepúlveda

Chía Patiño nació en Quito. Estudió composición y piano en la Universidad de Louisville. Recibió una Maestría y un Doctorado en Música con especialidad en Composición de la Universidad de Indiana en Bloomington. Además, tiene una Maestría en Artes con especialidad en Interpretación de las Artes Escénicas del Conservatorio de Cincinnati.

Dirigió Don Giovanni para el Teatro de la Ópera de Michigan; Carmen, Flauta Mágica, Matrimonio de Fígaro y Porgy y Bess para la Filarmónica Nacional; Tosca, Così fan tutte, The Telephone and Trouble in Tahiti en Dubai y Egipto; además del estreno mundial de la ópera Only the Truth of Gabriela Ortiz, en los Estados Unidos y la ópera mariachi Cruzar de cara a la luna para Houston Grand Opera. Para el Teatro Nacional Sucre ha dirigido Sweeney Todd, Luisa Fernanda, West Side Story, Fausto, Despertar (Spring Awakening), Les Miserables y el estreno mundial de La flauta mágica de los Andes.

¿Cómo se inició la ópera en el Ecuador?
No existe una investigación profunda, tampoco una tradición tan arraigada como en otros países latinoamericanos. Sin embargo, en su mayoría, lo que si se encuentra son actividades lideradas por músicos comprometidos con el arte lírico.

A finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX la ópera en Ecuador, sobre todo en Quito y Guayaquil, la presentaban las compañías italianas que visitaban Latinoamérica. Paralelamente, existían destacados compositores ecuatorianos que incursionaron en la ópera, como es el caso de Luis H. Salgado, Pedro Pablo Traversari o Sixto Durán. En su mayoría, sus obras no fueron estrenadas, aunque por fortuna en la actualidad hay grandes esfuerzos por dar vida a las mismas.

En los años 80 se creó la compañía Amigos de la Ópera con presencia de importantes músicos como Beatriz Parra y Álvaro Manzano, con lo cual empezó la producción nacional, con una primera puesta de La Traviata en el Teatro Nacional Sucre. La Fundación Amigos de la Ópera fue una iniciativa de orden privado que dejó de existir a los pocos años de su creación.

En 2003 el Teatro Nacional Sucre se reinauguró con Rigoletto, producción invitada de Perú. Con Julio Bueno a la cabeza del Teatro Nacional Sucre se produjeron títulos como Hansel y Gretel, La Serva Padrona, La Flauta Mágica, dirigidos por Javier Andrade; Carmen, Dido y Eneas, dirigidas por Chía Patiño; y La Bohème y Traviata en cooperación con Corea. Se comisionó además Manuela y Bolívar al compositor ecuatoriano Diego Luzuriaga, la cual se estrenó en 2008 bajo la dirección de Álvaro Manzano y Javier Andrade, y en 2009 en una segunda puesta con revisiones y la dirección escénica de Chía Patiño, en Quito y Guayaquil.

Desde ese año, bajo la dirección artística y ejecutiva de Chía Patiño, la Fundación ha liderado producciones propias donde se destacan títulos como: Sweeney Todd -que se presentó además en Guayaquil, Cuenca y Bogotá-, Elixir dÁmore, Gianni Schicchi y Suor Angelica y La Rondine, dirigidas por Stefano Vizioli; Così fan tutte por Marie King; La verbena de la Paloma y Carmen, dirigida por María Elena Mexia. Además, bajo la dirección escénica de Patiño se encuentran, recientemente, Faust con la dirección musical de Ari Pelto; y La Flauta Mágica de los Andes, una versión andina de la famosa obra de Mozart, con la Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos y Carmen-Helena Téllez a la cabeza. En Cuenca se destaca también las producciones propias dirigidas por Javier Andrade.

¿Reciben ayuda del gobierno?
Todas las orquestas pertenecen a la red gubernamental bajo el auspicio del Ministerio de Cultura. A su vez, el Teatro Sucre es un teatro municipal, por lo cual, toda producción recibe ayuda del gobierno directa o indirectamente.

¿Cuántas óperas presentan por temporada?
No se puede hablar de temporadas. Los esfuerzos han sido consistentes en los últimos años, pero en su mayoría, se reducen a una producción anual. La meta actual de la Fundación Teatro Nacional Sucre es dos producciones anuales.

Al contratar artistas extranjeros, lo hacen por medio de audiciones, servicios de casting, o ¿en qué forma?
En convocatorias abiertas se han recibido audiciones internacionales por video. También, se mantiene contacto con varios managers, pero se busca sobre todo jóvenes artistas emergentes. En su mayoría se aceptan recomendaciones de directores musicales o escénicos, y la última selección se hace en muchos casos por audiciones en video o audio.

¿Cómo seleccionan las óperas que se van a presentar en la temporada?
En el caso del Teatro Sucre, al tener varios elencos en casa (Coro Mixto Ciudad de Quito, Escuela Lírica, Coro Infantil, Coro Juvenil, entre otros), las óperas se seleccionan considerando las voces que existen casa adentro o en el país, para dar oportunidades a los artistas nacionales e incentivar su crecimiento.

¿Qué nos puedes contar de los cantantes de ópera ecuatorianos y qué oportunidades tienen?
Los cantantes más destacados de Ecuador se encuentran en el extranjero, pues, como hemos establecido anteriormente, la producción nacional es muy reducida y esporádica. Las oportunidades son muy reducidas para quien quiera dedicarse por completo al arte lírico.

¿Estos cantantes pueden desarrollarse en el Ecuador o tienen que salir a estudiar en el extranjero?
El camino correcto es salir al extranjero. Encontramos al momento una serie de jóvenes preparándose en Estados Unidos, España, Italia, Hungría, Argentina y Rusia.

A la juventud ecuatoriana ¿le gusta la ópera o prefieren otro estilo de música?
Al no tener tradición en la ópera la juventud, por fortuna, mantiene la curiosidad necesaria para llegar a las diversas producciones que se presentan en el país. Yo he sido testigo de una enorme asistencia de jóvenes en todas las producciones que hemos presentado. Sin embargo, el núcleo juvenil comprometido con la ópera ya sea en la parte artística o de producción, es muy pequeño y cuenta con muy poco apoyo, lo cual hace aún más loable su compromiso.

¿Cuáles son tus planes para los próximos cinco años?
De manera personal, me parece importantísimo enfocarse en la parte educativa de esta arte, y en general, en las artes musicales y escénicas. Tenemos Conservatorios absolutamente caotizados de los cuales no ha salido un músico sólido en mucho tiempo. Una naciente Universidad de las Artes con una malla curricular no muy clara y no enfocada en música con espacio para el arte lírico. Las universidades privadas han abierto departamentos de música enfocados en Jazz y Producción musical (también con frutos en el campo de jazz, pop, música urbana o independiente). En el área de música clásica o el campo lírico hay un enorme vacío que necesita ser resuelto para apoyar y entrenar al talento nacional, que afortunadamente sí existe y se mantienen en este espacio a pesar del poco apoyo que encuentran, demostrando, además, su compromiso.

OPERA AMERICA

November , 12, 2025

Friday, April 10, 2026 | 7:30 pm University of MichiganSchool of Music, Theatre & DanceChamber Opera: “Working for the Macbeths”

McIntosh Theatre
Earl V. Moore Building
1100 Baits Dr
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Free – no tickets required

The Department of Voice & Opera presents the comic opera “Working for the Macbeths” (2023) with music by Johanny Navarro and libretto by Marcus Yi.

Conductor: Jayce Ogren with the Contemporary Directions Ensemble
Stage Director: Chía Patiño
Assistant Conductor: Michael Roest
Coaches/Pianists: Timothy Cheek, Andrea Morokutti

Sung in English

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November 08, 2025

The Marriage of Figaro Image Gallery

(Le nozze di Figaro)

August, 20, 2025

The Marriage of Figaro

(Le nozze di Figaro)

Considered by many to be the “perfect opera,” The Marriage of Figaro tells the story of a single day in the life of Figaro and Susanna as they attempt to get married – against the wishes of others.
Mozart’s opera buffa (or comic opera) is a sequel of sorts to Paisello’s The Barber of Seville: Both operas are adaptations of plays in Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’s Figaro trilogy. The Marriage of Figaro remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed operas to this day.

Directed by Chía Patiño
Conducted by Sahar Nouri

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte

Sung in Italian with English surbitles

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July, 23, 2025

Samantha Sosa as Lucy, Kaylan Hernandez as Rachel, and Mikaela Bennett as Esperanza in the 2025 Glimmerglass Festival world-premiere production of ‘The House on Mango Street.’ Photo by Kayleen Bertrand/The Glimmerglass Festival.

(Excerpt)
There were indeed moments of power and beauty. Angelo Silva as Geraldo, pushing a shopping cart on and off the stage, represents the most marginalized in the community, in his case an undocumented street vendor. Silva’s glorious voice is set beautifully by Bermel in a show-stopping number, and Geraldo’s story breaks open our hearts in the way only opera can. The violence that so suddenly ends the character’s life ripped me apart. Taylor Alexis-Dupont, as Sally, an adolescent girl with a terrible secret in her family and someone who wants to run with the wild boys and “take her cake and eat it too,” has a powerful instrument and knows how to fill and shape emotions to full advantage. There is also a gorgeous adult quintet (sextet?) by the adults in the beginning of Act II when they sing “Once” (when I was beautiful), comparing their individual dreams of what their lives would be but dreams always deferred. Amanda Castro has choreographed some cool street dancing.

DC Theater Arts

July, 24, 2025

The cast of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET. Photo Credit: Brent DeLanoy

(Excerpt)
It’s hard to imagine Mango Street in stage or operative form since the original is a kaleidoscopic series of short vignettes detailing the adolescence of Esperanza, a Latina teen growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. The libretto by Cisneros and Bermel fashions the fragments of the novel into a dazzling, cohesive tapestry. Just as the libretto stitches together the myriad threads of Esperanza’s story and her numerous friends, relatives, and neighbors, Bermel’s score incorporates many different musical styles to reflect the diverse milieu of the plot. No less than 13 different genres can be detected, ranging from salsa, ranchera, mariachi, and Tex-Mex to rap and hip-hop with touches of gospel, polka, and klezmer. Somehow these disparate elements come together to form a harmonious whole, under conductor Nicole Paiement’s baton, just as the bits and pieces of Cisneros’ novel do.

TheaterLife.com

July, 19, 2025

Fresh pics from 'The House on Mango Street'!

July, 14, 2025

Glimmerglass Festival: The House on Mango Street by Derek Bermel & Sandra Cisneros.

The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age classic, has been acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world. Novelist Sandra Cisneros, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, has teamed up with Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel for an opera inspired by her classic book, which unfolds in a series of episodes seen through the eyes of a young girl. Through a series of interactions, which range from fascinating to funny to frightening, she comes to understand that storytelling is the medicine she can offer her community — and herself.

July, 03, 2025

Award-Winning "The house on Mango Street" by Sandra cisneros to debut as an opera, world premiere july 18, 2025.

One of the most read, and most loved books in high schools and colleges around the United States is the critically acclaimed novel by literary hero SANDRA CISNEROS, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET. After a process of about two years, THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET is about to debut on the stage as a powerful, emotional, and highly artistic opera.
The world premiere of The House on Mango Street the Opera will take place on July 18, with six performances throughout July and August during the 2025 Glimmerglass season in Cooperstown, New York.

Music: Bermel.
Libretto: Cisneros & Bermel.

Six performances: July 18, 28; Aug 2, 10, 12, 16.

The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age classic, has been acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world.
Novelist Sandra Cisneros, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, has teamed up with Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel for an opera inspired by her classic book, which unfolds in a series of episodes seen through the eyes of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero.
Through a series of interactions, which range from fascinating to funny to frightening, she comes to understand that storytelling is the medicine she can offer her community — and herself.

Conductor | Nicole Paiement.
Director | Chía Patiño.
Set Designer | John Conklin.
Costume Designer | Erik Teague.
Lighting Designer | Amith Chandrashaker.
Dramaturg | Kelley Rourke.
Projections Designer | Greg Emetaz.
Hair & Make-Up | Tom Watson.
Generously Sponsored by | Nellie and Robert Gipson.

Congratulations to the amazing SANDRA CISNEROS and to everyone involved in this majestic new opera!

@Latin Groove News

April, 01, 2025

The House on Mango Street – World Premiere

Music: Bermel
Libretto: Cisneros & Bermel
Six performances: July 18, 28m; Aug 2m, 10m, 12m, 16

The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age classic, has been acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world. Novelist Sandra Cisneros, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, has teamed up with Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel for an opera inspired by her classic book, which unfolds in a series of episodes seen through the eyes of a young girl. Through a series of interactions, which range from fascinating to funny to frightening, she comes to understand that storytelling is the medicine she can offer her community — and herself.

Conductor | Nicole Paiement
Director | Chía Patiño
Set Designer | John Conklin
Costume Designer | Erik Teague
Lighting Designer | Amith Chandrashaker
Dramaturg | Kelley Rourke
Projections Designer | Greg Emetaz
Hair & Make-Up | Tom Watson
Generously Sponsored by | Nellie and Robert Gipson

Glimmerglass Festival

April, 01, 2025

Works & Process at the GuggenheimGlimmerglass Festival: The House on Mango Street by Derek Bermel and Sandra Cisneros

March 27, 2025 7:30PM
Location
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

Learn more about this new opera prior to its world premiere at Glimmerglass Festival in July 2025. A coming-of-age classic, Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street has been acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world. Through a series of interactions, from fascinating to funny to frightening, the novel’s young female protagonist comes to understand that storytelling is the medicine she can offer her community—and herself. Cisneros, winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, has teamed up with Grammy-nominated composer Derek Bermel for an opera inspired by her classic book.

Works & Process at the Guggenheim

March, 10, 2025

Henry James’s gripping short story of ghostly possession becomes a haunting and suspenseful opera in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.

March 27, 2025 7:30PM
Location
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

A new governess has arrived at the Victorian country home of Bly to care for two young charges, yet the children aren’t exactly what they appear. Visions of the deceased former butler and governess seem to be influencing the children towards evil. The new governess soon finds herself in an unearthly struggle for the children’s souls. But are the ghosts real, or are they only in the governess’s mind? Britten’s evocative score builds to a tremendous climax, leaving the listener wondering if the spirits of the past are still ominously present.

With the Contemporary Directions Ensemble:

Conductor Kirk Severtson

Stage Director Chía Patiño

February, 6, 2025

Global alumni spring 2025.Celebrating our global alumni: Chia Patino, BM '90.

Ecuadorian composer and stage director Chia Patino (BM’90), who enjoys a celebrated global career as a stage director, and last year joined the music faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mark Kaczmarczyk, Director of Development, had the opportunity to interview her and captured her musical journey: “Composition and directing are essentially the same thing. One is written down on the page, and it pops when the orchestra is there. The other rises up and vertical, but if you want to have the audience look stage right, or listen to a flute solo, it’s the same process. The biggest problem (as a composer) is timing, so (as a stage director, that is) it’s solved in opera. The thing with opera is when it captures you, it never leaves you. I never expected I’d become a real stage director. You plan, then life happens.”– Chia Patino

What’s your earliest memory as a child? I remember being very young, maybe five or six, and there was this competition I heard in Latin America (OTI), similar to Eurovision, and I recall hearing another child around my age singing a song. I heard them sing and immediately thought “I want to write a song for that”. My Grandmother owned a piano and it arrived to our home soon after. Piano lessons followed, for me and my three siblings.

Share with us your story from Ecuador to Louisville. In those years there was a relationship with Quito, Ecuador, which is the sister city with Louisville. Richard Spalding (music faculty, emeritus), was the head of the Sister Cities program. Back then we had students from Montpellier, Quito, Mainz, and Africa in the program, which was fantastic. My older sister (Veronica, BM 89) received the first Sister Cities Scholarship, was a piano pedagogy major, and studied with a teacher she adored:  Mrs. Doris Keyes. I was subsequently awarded the scholarship while at UofL, was given a host family, and every little thing of support you needed was provided. Mrs. Keyes became a life mentor for me.

What’s your fondest memory of the School of Music? I remember the first day I walked into the Music Library, I was overwhelmed! Back home in Ecuador there were maybe three of four books on composition, but at the School of Music I was able to access so many scores, courtesy of the Grawemeyer collection. The library staff were extremely supportive, and I would go in and just listen to recordings-it blew my mind. The idea of a “practice room”, a solitary space to do nothing but practice, also blew my mind. In Ecuador, there are no such things as practice rooms. Mrs. Keyes taught me how to listen to sounds. My first year I studied with Claude Baker (former Professor of Composition, UofL, and Indiana University), who was instrumental in my early success and subsequent admission to Indiana University. We were literally starving artistically, and now I realize that the faculty identified that passion in me. For my senior recital I was able to utilize almost 85% of the students in the School of Music as dancers and instrumentalists; the intimate size and nature of the school and faculty were so supportive.

Tell us about your unique journey from position to stage direction to opera. Composition is a very lonely thing. Early on, composers believed in  sturm und drang, (a German phrase meaning “storm and stress”, referring to a literary movement of the 18th century), and my music was not like that. Composition drives you into this vortex. Now that I’m mature I feel in a healthier mental place, I really have something to say so I may come back to it. While at Bloomington, I decided to write an opera. I took a play writing class and every theater production class, movement and direction, so I could understand what makes for good theater. That is how it started…

You were Director of the National Theater of Ecuador for a decade, you’ve been invited to guest stage direct at the Aspen Music Festival, and around the world. In 2024 you were invited to join the music faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. At the UofM you mentor young, emerging singers, trying to find their voice. What’s your advice to young musicians today?

Today people are writing music on their computers, via a program, and not with their ears. if you’re writing in a library you cannot be writing with your heart. In Louisville I learned how to write sounds down and actually imagine them, hear them… it has to be intimate: between a composer and his/her imagination. (big warning into writing on a computer program that plays back immediately…) Young students may feel free, but they are limited by the computer program, instead of embracing their vision. Read! Explore! Go to a museum! Consume all the art you can! Claude Baker, Fred Fox and Eugene O’Brien would give me lists of books, plays and poetry to read. I loved that! I was pushed to discover and expand!  Decide what makes you happy as a musician, because we have our emotions so raw and out of control, especially when we’re young. Hang on and don’t panic. If music makes you happy, find the way to make a living out of it, but keep an eye for doors that may open where you don’t expect them.

“Sometimes you help with time, sometimes you help with money, other times you just sit down with the students and figure it out.”– Chia Patiño

University of Louisville

February, 5, 2025

Glimmerglass Festival Announces 2025 Season.

The Glimmerglass Festival has announced its 50th anniversary season.

All mainstage productions are accompanied by the Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and is staged in the Alice Busch Opera Theater. In addition to regular Festival programming, the 2025 season will offer 50th anniversary-related events, talks, concerts, and meals. The full slate of 2025 special events, along with full season casting will be announced at a later date.

Puccini’s “Tosca” directed by Louisa Proske opens the Festival. Joseph Colaneri conducts a cast that includes Michelle Bradley, Yongzhao Yu, and Greer Grimsley.

Performance Dates: July 11, 13, 20, & 21; August 1, 4, 7, 9, 14, & 16, 2025

Up next is the company’s premiere of Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park With George” with orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Ethan Heard serves as director. The cast will include John Riddle, Marina Pires, Luretta Bybee, Taylor-Alexis DuPont, and Marc Webster.

Performance Dates: July 12, 17, 19, 21; August 2, 5, 8, 10, & 17, 2025

Derek Bermel and Sandra Cisneros’ opera “The House on Mango Street” makes its world premiere. Chía Patiño directs and Nicole Paiement conducts. The cast includes Mikaela Bennett, Samantha Sosa, Kaylan Hernandez, Taylor-Alexis DuPont, Sarah Rosales, Tshilidzi Ndou, Sergio Martínez, and Deborah Nansteel.

Performance Dates: July 18 & 28; August 2, 10, 12, & 16, 2025

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OPERA WIRE

December, 4, 2024

A look back at the SMTD OperaLab’s orchestral workshop of “The House on Mango Street”.

November, 12, 2024

CBS News - "La Fille Du Regiment" features Opera Colorado debut of a drag queen

November 11, 2024

November, 08, 2024

Opera Colorado’s new production of Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” offers audiences a contemporary perspective on the classic 1840 comedy, featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Monét X Change in a traditionally non-singing role that has been reimagined for her operatic background.

Stage Director Chía Patiño has inverted the opera’s typical portrayal of how a military regiment influences its adopted daughter, instead exploring how the presence of a young woman transforms the soldiers around her.

“I think in general they tend to stage her as therefore a very manly woman,” Patiño explained. “I decided to turn around and to see what happened if, as every father, the tenderness comes out in every father when they have a daughter …. There is a softer part in every man’s heart that comes out when they’re dealing specifically with daughters.”

Colorado Public Radio

November, 08, 2024

Daughter of the Regiment marches onto the stage with wit, charm, and a whole lot of heart. Preview audiences are calling it “hilarious” and “delightful.”
Don’t miss it November 9-17 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House!

October 31, 2024

Daughter of the Regiment Takes the Stage Next Week

Happy Halloween from your friends at Opera Colorado! While trick-or-treating and scary movies are fun, we’re looking forward to something else, Daughter of the Regiment! Our fall opera opens in just over a week on November 9. Take a look at some moments from rehearsals, then keep reading to learn more about Colorado Gives Day and some community events we’re excited for.

See the complete News Letter from The Opera Colorado VOICE

OPERA COLORADO VOICE

April 19, 2024

Chía Patiño to Join the Department of Voice & Opera

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance announces that Chía Patiño will join the Department of Voice & Opera as an assistant professor in the fall of 2024. She brings extensive directing experience, having worked with opera companies in the US, Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, México, Brazil, Nicaragua, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.

COMPLETE NOTE

May 12, 2024

OPERA America's 2024 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors

The grant opens doors for women artists by incentivizing professional opera companies of all sizes to engage women in key artistic roles.

– Beth Morrison Projects (Brooklyn, NY): Elizabeth Askren will conduct SENSORIUM EX (Paola Prestini, composer; Brenda Shaughnessy, librettist)
– Detroit Opera (Detroit, MI): Nataki Garrett will direct THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (Anthony Davis, composer; Richard Wesley, librettist)
– IN Series (Washington, DC): Shanara Gabrielle will direct CRADLE WILL ROCK (Marc Blitzstein, composer and librettist)
– Kentucky Opera (Louisville, KY): Kimille Howard will direct THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE (Chandler Carter, composer; Diana Solomon Glover, librettist)
– LA Opera (Los Angeles, CA): Lina González-Granados will conduct AINADAMAR (Osvaldo Golijov, composer; David Henry Hwang, librettist)
– National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY): Kaneza Schaal will direct UNTO US (Helga Davis and Ted Cruz, composers; Helga Davis and Langston Hughes, librettists)
– Opera Colorado (Denver, CO): Chía Patiño will direct THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT (Gaetano Donizetti, composer; Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard, librettists)
– Opera Orlando (Orlando, FL): Roberta Emerson will direct TREEMONISHA (Scott Joplin, composer and librettist)
– Opera Steamboat (Steamboat Springs, CO): Amanda Berg Wilson will direct WELCOME TO THE MADNESS (Leanna Kirchoff, composer; Rachel J. Peters, librettist)
– Resonance Works (Pittsburgh, PA): Keturah Stickann will direct THE LITTLE PRINCE (Rachel Portman, composer; Nicholas Wright, librettist)
Opera America FacebookOpera America Grants

February 25, 2024

(…) Amazonisch-musikalischer Farbenreichtum à la Puccini und Debussy.

Eine Premiere der ganz besonderen Art! Die Ópera de Tenerife in der Hauptstadt Santa Cruz führte in einer Produktion des Auditorio de Tenerifezum ersten Mal eine lateinamerikanische Oper auf. Und es wurde gleich eine spanische Erstaufführung! „Florencia en el Amazonas“ des Mexikaners Daniel Catán wurde in Europa bisher nur in Deutschland und der Schweiz aufgeführt, während das Werk in der westlichen Hemisphäre schon über viele Bühnen gewandert ist.

Nach dieser Premiere der Catán-Oper mit dem Libretto von Marcela Fuentes-Berain, die aus dem magischen Realismus von Gabriel García Márquez in seinem Roman „Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera“ schöpfte, fällt es einem schwer zu verstehen, warum das Werk erst nun in Spanien zu erleben ist, und dazu noch auf den vom Festland weit entfernten Kanarischen Inseln, die dem Amazonas aber immerhin etwas näher sind. Aber bis auf zwei Länder also war es bisher noch unbekannt in Europa!

Klaus Billand Complete Review

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Stage Director and Composer, from 2009 to 2019 she was the Artistic and Executive Director of the Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, Ecuador.

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