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Silent Night is an opera by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell. As Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts the work had its world premiere at the Ordway Theater , Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 12, 2011 under the directorship and dramaturgy of Eric Simonson .
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.
Karin Wolverton (born 1974, Roseville, Minnesota) [1] is an American operatic soprano.A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she has performed several roles with the Minnesota Opera, including Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Donna Ines in Maria Padilla and both Mimi and Musetta in La bohème among others.
Kevin Matthew Puts / p ʊ t s / [1] (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera The Hours and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera Silent Night [2] and a Grammy Award in 2023 for his concerto Contact.
Danish conductor Thomas Sondergard has been chosen as the 11th music director to lead the Minnesota Orchestra in its 120-year history. Sondergard, 52, will be music director designate in the 2022 ...
Stephen Paulus (August 24, 1949 – October 19, 2014) was an American Grammy Award winning [2] composer, best known for his operas and choral music.His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature.
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Opera is now staged by the Minnesota Opera, co-founded as Center Opera by Dominick Argento in 1963, as part of the Walker Art Center. [88] [89] With an early reputation as "progressive (and) 'alternative'", [89] the Minnesota Opera began to include traditional works in its repertory when it merged with Saint Paul Opera in 1975. [90]