The world premiere opera will open in December 2015, a collaboration between Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Soprano Danielle de Niese will sing the leading role.
Lyric Opera creative consultant Renee Fleming will not star. Instead she will act as curator for the piece, which will be by Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz will write the libretto and soprano Danielle di Niese will play the starring role of Roxanne Coss.
Date: Feb 28, 2012
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Chicago's Lyric Opera sets 2015 premiere of 'Bel Canto,' inspired by Peru ...
Peruvian composer Jimmy Lopez and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz will write the opera. Cruz, from Cuba, won the Pulitzer in 2003 for the play Anna in the Tropics. Lyric music director Andrew Davis will conduct and the director will be Stephen Wadsworth.
Date: Feb 28, 2012
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Lyric Opera to present world premiere 'Bel Canto' in 2015-16 season
Rather she and Lyric are enlisting a highly promising Peruvian with intense Finnish and Bay Area training, Jimmy Lopez, 33, to compose Bel Canto and Cuban-born Nilo Cruz, the first Latin American winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama (Anna in the Tropics, 2003), to fashion the libretto fro