Media Release

Cincinnati Opera and CCM to workshop "Lalovavi," the new opera-in-progress by Kevin Day and Tifara Brown, featuring a free public performance of excerpts on May 13, 2024

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater New Works Program, The Highlands workshop culminates in a free, public presentation of excerpts on Saturday, March 23 at Music Hall’s Wilks Studio.

Cincinnati Opera launches first-of-its-kind, $5-million initiative, The Black Opera Project, featuring three new operas created by Black artists celebrating the Black experience

The company also announces the first work in The Black Opera Project, Lalovavi, an Afrofuturist grand opera featuring music by Kevin Day, libretto by Tifara Brown, and stage direction and dramaturgy by Kimille Howard, premiering at Cincinnati Music Hall on Juneteenth 2025

Cincinnati Opera and CCM to workshop "The Highlands," a new opera by Carlos Simon, Lynn Nottage, and Ruby Aiyo Gerber, through Opera Fusion: New Works Partnership

Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater New Works Program, The Highlands workshop culminates in a free, public presentation of excerpts on Saturday, March 23 at Music Hall’s Wilks Studio.

Cincinnati Opera and CCM to Workshop "Lincoln in the Bardo," a new opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, through Opera Fusion: New Works Partnership

Based on George Saunders’s award-winning novel, the work has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and is a co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Los Angeles Opera. The workshop culminates in a free, public presentation of excerpts on Sunday, November 12.

90.9 WGUC to Broadcast Cincinnati Opera’s 2023 Summer Festival on Sunday Evenings in November

Cincinnati Opera’s 2023 production of Madame Butterfly. Photo by Philip Groshong.

CINCINNATI (October 3, 2023)—On Sunday evenings this November, Cincinnati Opera will partner with 90.9 WGUC, Cincinnati’s classical public radio station, to broadcast productions from its 2023 Summer Festival. Each broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET. You can listen on air at 90.9 FM and online at wguc.org.

Cincinnati Opera’s 2023 Summer Festival took place June 22–July 29, 2023, at Cincinnati’s historic Music Hall. The operas to be broadcast include Lucia di Lammermoor, The Knock (world stage premiere), The Barber of Seville, and Madame Butterfly. For additional details, please visit wguc.org.


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