LGBTQ audiences have long been drawn to the opera. Now they can see their stories on stage. See the full story in Opera America Spring Preview
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A mere five years after the premiere of her first opera, As One, composer Laura Kaminsky has become a key player in contemporary opera. The compactly scored work, which depicts the struggles and triumphs of
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Music – Laura Kaminsky, Libretto – Mark Campbell & Kimberly Reed Original Concept – Mark Campbell Stage Director – David Schweizer Conductor – William Remmers June 7-9, 2019 TICKETS
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Composer Laura Kaminsky discusses her hit opera AS ONE, facilitating new works from women composers, and what she’s been reading lately in our Artist of the Month interview. Witness the world premiere of her collaboratively
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Author Carolyn Burke reads from her new book Foursome at Book Culture on 112th Street and Broadway on Thursday May 23rd at 7 pm. Following the reading is a discussion with composer Laura Kaminsky, whose
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WNO: American Opera Initiative: Three New 20-Minute Operas Catch a glimpse into the future of opera! Three world premiere short operas will be staged in a concert performance, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra and
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A new Opera Parallèle production premiering Thursday, March 28, with music by Laura Kaminsky and libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed. Read the full story in the San Francisco Chronicle
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2019 Composers Now Festival Opening Event The Opening Event of the ninth annual Composers Now Festival will feature a vivacious program of music by living composers hosted by Composers Now founder and artistic director, Tania León. Thursday, January 31,
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As One is the most frequently produced contemporary opera with two dozen productions scheduled since premiere at BAM in 2014. Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed’s chamber opera As One was the 14th most-performed
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The 2018–2019 season of Onstage at the Opera Center! brings together some of opera’s most celebrated figures — Stephanie Blythe, Ryan Speedo Green, Laura Kaminsky, Paul Moravec and Gregory Spears — to talk about their creative processes
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Violinist Julie Rosenfeld has invited five composers with whom she had worked over the past 30 years, to each write a work for violin and piano. The composers include Kenneth Fuchs, Katherine Hoover, John Halle,
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Laura Kaminsky’s big-bite idea to write the score for a contemporary opera inspired by the life of Georgia O’Keeffe suits the grand genre and subject matter. It also begs a question: How to portray in
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John von Rhein, Contact Reporter, Chicago Tribune December 26, 2016 Here in Chicago there were things to regret, of course, but classical music lovers had much else to be grateful for, good things that perhaps
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MENLO PARK, Calif. (November 14, 2017) – The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced today the first 10 recipients of its Hewlett 50 Arts Commissions, an $8 million commissioning initiative that is the largest of
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by Anne Midgette in The Washington Post | Nov 3, 2017 The headline looks like a spoof: “There’s a good reason there are no great female composers.” The article beneath it eviscerates the outputs of
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