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Tragedy Next Season… Comedy tonight! Anchorage Opera presents Don Pasquale
L-R Philip Cokorinos and David Lefkowich in rehearsal Anchorage Opera is opening its season with the comic opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with lyrics by Giovanni Ruffini and Donizetti, a story...
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Anchorage Opera presents As One
Luis Orozco and Ashley Cutright in As One Anchorage Opera is presenting the powerful new opera, As One, by composer Laura Kaminsky in collaboration with librettist Mark Campbell and...
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Bernstein’s Candide
Bernstein’s Candide It’s the 100th anniversary of famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein’s birthday, and to help celebrate, Anchorage Opera is collaborating with Anchorage Symphony Orchestra to...
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Stage Talk: The Alpha and Omega
Stage Talk founder and first host, Catherine Stadem After six and a half years, first as co-host and then as host of Stage Talk, Steve Hunt has decided to exit stage left. With his departure the show...
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Gilbert and Sullivan come to the stage as Anchorage Opera produces Pirates of Penzance. Stage Director Bill Fabris and Executive Director Kevin Patterson join Jean this week to talk about this very...
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Anchorage Opera’s new season is something to sing about
Vanessa Ballam As Mabel from Pirates of Penzance Join Anchorage Opera’s Executive Director Kevin Patterson on this week’s Stage Talk as he talks about their upcoming 2013-14 season which will include...
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Come to Me Leopards by Arlitia Jones
Director Jayne Wenger Anchorage playwright Arlitia Jones and San Francisco Bay area director Jayne Wenger talk about the art of collaboration as they prepare to present Arlitia’s newest play, Come to...
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Anchorage Opera presents Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Join Jane Drebert (Lucia) and Kirk Dougherty (Arturo) from the Anchorage Opera Company’s production of Donizetti’s gothic tale Lucia di Lammermore this week on Stage...
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Anchorage Opera crowds the mic
Rachel Hastings and Emerson Eads from Rossini’s The Marriage Contract Four guests, two shows, fifteen minutes. That’s what happens this week on Stage Talk when folks from Anchorage Opera come by to...
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A “Polar Bat” flies to Anchorage
Kate Egan and Scott Hogsed in Die Fledermaus or The Polar Bat Anchorage Opera has re-worked the classic Strauss opera, Die Fledermaus (which means “the bat”) with an Alaskan flair to become The Polar...
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Let’s roast a little Brunhilde at Das Barbecu
Cody Littlefield and R. Scott Cantrell Summertime is the perfect time for a…barbecu? It is if it is a Texas take-off of one of Richard Wagner’s classic opera’s, Der Ring des Nibelungen called Das...
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Anchorage Opera presents Madame Butterfly
Rehearsal for Madame Butterfly As its season premier, Anchorage Opera is presenting one of the most produced operas worldwide in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Also making a premier, of sorts, is...
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West High and Anchorage Opera’s co-production of two Holocaust shows
I Never Saw Another Butterfly West High School and Anchorage Opera have come together to produce two moving productions that have one thing in common: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in...
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Anchorage Opera’s Carmen
Audrey Babcock as Carmen Stage director David Lefkowich and conductor Brian DeMaris from Anchorage Opera’s production of George Bizet’s once scandalous opera Carmen drop by Stage Talk this week. Carmen...
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Anchorage Opera’s The Mikado
Take a magical trip to a fantasy Japan (seen through the eyes of 19th Century British satire) as Stage Talk welcomes three of the stars from Anchorage Opera’s upcoming production of Gilbert and...
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Anchorage Opera’s 2016-2017 season
Glory Denied Anchorage Opera is celebrating its 55th anniversary with something old, something new and something… well, extravagant! Join Reed Smith, AO’s General Director and Judy Berry, AO’s...
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UAA Music and Anchorage Opera team up again
The cast of Dr. Miracle. Photo by O’Hara Shipe UAA Department of Music and Anchorage Opera have teamed up again under the leadership of Associate Professor Mari Hahn to present two one-act operas,...
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Anchorage Opera’s Glory Denied
Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied Anchorage Opera Company is presenting Tom Cipullo’s opera Glory Denied based on the true story of the longest held American captive during the Vietnam War and what happens...
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AFAA’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
The “Brothers” from AFAA’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita) are recognized as two of the most popular musical theatre...
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Anchorage Opera’s 2017-2018 season
Glory Denied from the 2016-17 season Stage Talk continues its summer series of focusing on upcoming seasons and this week we invite Reed Smith, General Director of Anchorage Opera to drop by and let us...
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Anchorage Opera tells an American story that also played out in Alaska
Image from the Anchorage Opera website, offering background to its February production, “An American Dream.” We may associate opera with languages like French, Italian, German and even Russian. But the...
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