The show goes on
Reader Comments
It’s nice to see that opera is thriving in Baltimore and the people who truly care about such a wonderful art are keeping it alive. It is a little sad though that Baltimore’s longest tenured company, Young Vic, was not featured in this piece. While the newer companies like the American Opera Theatre, Baltimore Concert Opera, etc., deserve credit, we should honor the existence of companies who have learned to exist through the years and who have managed to stay afloat despite the arts continuing to disappear.
Another new opera company in Baltimore is the Chesapeake Chamber Opera. Please come out and support younger artists on their road to becoming established opera singers. http://www.chesapeakechamberopera.org
Douglas Peters, Program Director
I’ve also enjoyed many performances by Opera Vivente and American Opera Theater and look forward to attending the other Baltimore Opera Companies. Tough to include everything in this vibrant scene: You also missed opera at the Peabody Conservatory, definitely a vital part of the scene. A couple of other new smaller groups come to mind—Chesapeake Chamber Opera and the Figaro Project—more evidence of a real opera community in Baltimore. But this is a great article in Style, nevertheless. Thanks for writing on this subject!
It is wonderful to see a thriving community that both supports and performs opera in Baltimore. What makes opera a unique art form that inspires such passionate fans is the way it combines all the arts; music, voice, visual arts, literature, acting and drama. Opera Vivente (aka “Opera Alive!”), with its extraordinarily creative director John Bowen, has been doing that for 13 years. Experiencing opera in English in a small theater, where you are almost part of the action, is a memorable experience.
i have read this article with great interest, and i applaud the 5 companies profiled. However, i find it curious and disappointing that Style Magazine did not also include the Young Victorian Theatre Company(http://www.yvtc.org) in this piece. we have just completed our 40th season of presenting Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in Baltimore. While this is not grand opera , per se, many opera companies regularly perform the Savoyard works in their regular repertoire. We are Baltimore’s longest tenured, most stable classical musical theatrical group, with two permanent endowments and a reserve fund, and our annual budget for one G&S production is approximately 175,000.00 per yr. It is regrettable that we were not profiled in your piece—-Brian S Goodman , General Manager
