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Minnesota Opera. Minnesota Opera is a performance organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.It was founded as the Center Opera Company in 1963 by the Walker Art Center, and is known for premiering such diverse works as Where the Wild Things Are by Oliver Knussen (based on the children's novel by Maurice Sendak) and Frankenstein by Libby Larsen.
The world premiere broadcast was heard on Minnesota Public Radio on September 19, 2007. Utah Symphony – Utah Opera subsequently performed the work (in a modified version) on May 12–20, 2007, at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City. A revised version of the opera was performed by Pittsburgh Opera in November, 2008. [4]
The Shining is an American opera in two acts and an epilogue, with music by composer Paul Moravec and a libretto by Mark Campbell, based on the 1977 novel by Stephen King. The opera received its world premiere on May 7, 2016 at the Ordway Music Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is part of the "New Works Initiative" of Minnesota Opera.
In addition to 'The Many Deaths of Laila Starr,' it is commissioning an adaptation of 'Misery.'
In 1980, Saint Paul resident Sally Ordway Irvine (a 3M heiress and arts patron) dreamed of a European-style concert hall offering "everything from opera to the Russian circus". She contributed $7.5 million—a sum matched by other members of the Ordway family—toward the facility's cost.
Lyric Opera of the North (LOON Opera Company) [19] Minnesota Concert Opera [20] (closed 2017) Minnesota Opera; Nautilus Music-Theater; Skylark Opera Theatre;
Yunchan Lim and the Minnesota Orchestra South Korean pianist Lim has found stardom at the tender age of 20 after winning America’s foremost piano competition, the Van Cliburn, clinching it with ...
The Fix is an opera by composer Joel Puckett and librettist Eric Simonson. As The Fix: Opera in Two Acts the work received its world premiere at the Ordway Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota, on March 16, 2019 under the directorship and dramaturgy of Eric Simonson. [1]