Daily News | Opera Philadelphia announces O23 Festival and a peek at its 50th anniversary season
A Verdi favorite, a new opera based on pioneering American journalist Nellie Bly and a long-neglected chamber opera by Black composer Joseph Bologne are among the high points on the horizon for Opera Philadelphia.
Opera Philadelphia’s centerpiece for the past several years has been the fall O Festival, and if the pandemic forced a scaled-back festival in 2022, Opera Philadelphia has outlined upcoming programming that restores the ambition a few degrees. Tenor Karim Sulayman uses the music of George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, and contemporary composer Mary Kouyoumdjian to tell the story of the crusades from a contemporary Arab American perspective inApart from the fall festival, the company will presentby Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, in February 2024 at the Academy of Music. The work is the only surviving opera by the composer, whose music has been revived in recent years.
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