Apr 14 Blog Kentucky Opera Returns To The Stage For Its 2021-2022 Season Kentucky Opera is launching its 2021-2022 Brown-Forman season this December, following over a year of cancellations and dark houses due to the pandemic. It’s also likely it will be one of the first performing arts organizations in Louisville to announce an in-person season. Early in the pandemic, singing was understood to be a “superspreader” activity […] By Daniel Gilliam Apr 14 Blog Kentucky Opera Returns To The Stage For Its 2021-2022 Season By Daniel Gilliam
Aug 06 New Lens New Lens: Barbara Lynne Jamison Join us for the next New Lens conversation on Sunday, August 11th at 7pm. Daniel Gilliam will talk with Barbara Lynne Jamison, general director of Kentucky Opera, about opera’s role and relevance in contemporary society. New Lens is free and open to the public. Arrive early, grab a cocktail and view the current exhibitions at […] By WUOL Aug 06 New Lens New Lens: Barbara Lynne Jamison By WUOL
Aug 31 WUOLive WUOLive: Mozart’s The Magic Flute A bird catcher, an evil queen, and more on the next WUOLive. Come experience the first production of Kentucky’s Opera’s 2018-2019 season: Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Thursday, September 6 at noon. Live in our Performance Studio here at Louisville Public Media and open to all. Members can reserve a lunch from City Cafe by calling […] By Daniel Gilliam Aug 31 WUOLive WUOLive: Mozart’s The Magic Flute By Daniel Gilliam
Oct 26 Blog Jake Heggie American opera composer Jake Heggie talks about writing his first opera, Dead Man Walking, 17 years ago and hearing it since then, and his career journey and how he approaches the operatic art form. By Daniel Gilliam Oct 26 Blog Jake Heggie By Daniel Gilliam
Oct 19 WUOLive WUOLive: Art Songs with Kentucky Opera Hear some of Kentucky Opera’s Studio Artists – Joanna Latini and Conor McDonald – outside the opera stage, singing art songs of Francis Poulenc, Vincenzo Bellini, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Libby Larsen’s Try Me, Good King: Last Words of the Wives of Henry VIII. Wednesday, October 25 at 12 noon, at Louisville Public Media (619 […] By Daniel Gilliam Oct 19 WUOLive WUOLive: Art Songs with Kentucky Opera By Daniel Gilliam
Oct 12 Events WUOLive: Dead Man Walking with Kentucky Opera Kentucky Opera preview’s their next production: Jake Heggie‘s first, highly-acclaimed opera Dead Man Walking, based on Sister Helen Prejean’s book of the same name. Wednesday, October 18 at 12 noon, at Louisville Public Media (619 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, KY 40202). To reserve a lunch, call (502) 814-6565, or email membership @ louisvillepublicmedia . org By Daniel Gilliam Oct 12 Events WUOLive: Dead Man Walking with Kentucky Opera By Daniel Gilliam
Sep 08 In-Studio In-Studio: Kentucky Opera’s Madame Butterfly (Pictured: Harold Meers as B.F. Pinkerton in Nashville Opera’s production) The Kentucky Opera’s 65th season starts later this month, and we’re giving you a chance to get a sneak peek with our next in-studio on Wednesday at noon, here at Louisville Public Media, 619 S. Fourth Street, Louisville, KY 40202. The cast of Madame Butterfly […] By Daniel Gilliam Sep 08 In-Studio In-Studio: Kentucky Opera’s Madame Butterfly By Daniel Gilliam