Opera
Pirates of Penzance Charms, Entertains
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 10-31-2022 under OPINION
Gilbert and Sullivan, those swashbuckling Victorian showmen, had a gift for creating shows so entertaining that you could easily miss how well they were made. Ostensibly serious theater, with its obvious gestures toward importance, often has a...
Opera Grand Rapids Stages Don Giovanni
by (John Kissane)
Submitted 10-27-2021 under OPINION
After an absence of two years, Opera Grand Rapids returned to Devos Performance Hall with Don Giovanni. Times had changed; an attendant confirmed COVID-19 vaccination or the results of a recent negative test, and masks were required throughout the...
Grand Rapids Public Museum hosts special Halloween organ concerts
by (Grand Rapids Pu...)
Submitted 10-03-2017 under NONPROFITS
Join the Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) for special Halloween Mighty Wurlitzer Organ Concerts with Andrew Rogers, accompanied by the 1925 horror silent film classic The Phantom of the Opera on Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14, 2017....
Song and dance: Opera GR, Grand Rapids Ballet collaborate
by (Opera Grand Rapids)
Submitted 05-30-2017 under PLACE-MATTERS
The classical arts have a special relationship to one another. In the world of grand opera, orchestration, song, dance and theatre all come together to create the final larger-than-life product. Take, for example, Opera Grand Rapids 2007 production...
Opera Grand Rapids' "The Barber of Seville" features Met Opera lead
by (Opera Grand Rapids)
Submitted 05-09-2017 under NONPROFITS
As Italian opera’s comic genius and the leading opera composer of the first half of the 19th century, Gioachino Rossini was nicknamed “The Italian Mozart” for good reason. Between 1808 and 1829, Rossini composed no fewer than...María de Buenos Aires
by (Opera Grand Rapids)
Submitted 08-05-2016 under
María de Buenos Aires An unconventional hybrid of tango, opera and surrealism Music by Ástor Piazzolla Libretto by Horacio Ferrer Seductive, haunting and intoxicating, genre-bending tango opera María de Buenos Aires is a surreal spiritual journey...
LiveArts 2015 - A look back at Grand Rapids Symphony's multi-genre, multimedia extravaganza one year later
by (GRSymphony)
Submitted 04-26-2016 under NONPROFITS
Grand Rapids Symphony’s LiveArts was the biggest, locally-produced show Grand Rapids had ever seen. In the Van Andel Arena on four stages, nine performing organizations with more than 1,500 performers joined together one year ago to celebrate...
Musical comedy, "The Mikado," comes to Wealthy Theatre
by (WestMichiganSav...)
Submitted 03-28-2016 under NONPROFITS
The most famous Gilbert and Sullivan musical comedy, "The Mikado", premiered in London in 1885. It was the Victorian era with Queen Victoria on the throne. Now, 131 years later, "The Mikado", is still being performed around the...
Gilbert & Sullivan's - The Mikado
by (WestMichiganSav...)
Submitted 03-28-2016 under
The most famous Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy, The Mikado, premiered in London in 1885. It was the Victorian era with Queen Victoria on the throne. Now, 131 years later, The Mikado is still being performed around the world. The...Opera Grand Rapids presents "Noah's Flood
by (Ashley Roberts)
Submitted 02-02-2015 under
Benjamin Britten's "Noah’s Flood" is a one-act opera sung in English and presented in the beautiful setting of Fountain Street Church. In addition to a professional cast and soloists of the Grand Rapids Symphony, over 100 kids...