-
Regional jazz and blues artists convene at Jazz UpFront, while a Mackinaw Valley Vineyards dinner dresses up in a Knights of the Round Table theme.
-
The professional opera company said it's moving in a new direction.
-
Local theater companies aren't suffering as badly as the nationwide trends, but without more financial support, they can't afford to go pro.
-
A modernized version of the Gilbert and Sullivan 1879 operetta kicks off MIOpera's new partnership with the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts. A previously-planned July run of "Romeo and Juliet" has been postponed until next February.
-
In a first-ever collaboration, Bloomington-based opera company MIOpera teams up with the Illinois Symphony on Saturday for a Shakespearean evening of opera and orchestral music.
-
You might not think opera and the #MeToo movement have much in common, but MIOpera director Tracy Koch says the latest production of "Carmen" is about a woman who takes control of her own life. WGLT stopped by a rehearsal to talk to Koch and learn more about opera's sultriest leading lady.
-
We don't usually think of the "Sound of Music" as a dark story. But a new production by MIOpera focuses on us-versus-them situations in the classic musical showing June 24-26 at the Astroth Center auditorium at Heartland Community College.
-
DatebookMIOpera had great success earlier this year with a live production of the "The Barber of Seville," a classic comic opera. Now, the company that brings a sometimes hard-to-find artform to Bloomington-Normal is putting on Guiseppe Verdi's "La Traviata," a very different work.