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If the idea of accessible opera piques your interest, or maybe you just want to get acquainted with the art form, Park City Opera is the troupe for you!
In this ski town, the first full opera to be performed in over 20 years is getting ready for curtain call. The organizers behind it are hoping to make the classical art form cool, fun and accessible for everyone — especially for young people.
While Park City Opera is neck deep in preparations for the world-premiere of its full-scale production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in two weeks, Benjamin Beckman, the company’s artistic director, wants to give the public little lesson in “The History of Opera In Utah.”
If the idea of accessible opera piques your interest, or maybe you just want to get acquainted with the art form, Park City Opera is the troupe for you!
After Park City Opera’s successful summer production, the nonprofit is returning to the stage with a musical holiday story of love. It's called “The Gift of the Magi.
“One component of Park City Opera that is unique is that you’re much closer physically to the performers when you’re in venues like the Park City Community Church or the Clubhouse,” she said. “So there’s this element of physicality and humanness to the art making, and our audiences see something more closely than they are used to.”
Working on the Park City Opera’s production of David Conte’s heartwarming, holiday-flavored opera, “Gift of the Magi” that opens next week, has been an experience full of good cheer for four cast members — sopranos Theodora Cottarel and Sarah Neal and baritones Shea Owens and Riley Findley.
Lena Goldstein, Lisl Wangermann and Benjamin Beckman share a vision for inspiring passion and appreciation for classical music in all ages. Upon recognizing their collective love for opera and drive for making the performing arts more accessible, these three Yale graduates quickly founded the nonprofit Park City Opera.
Opera wasn’t supposed to be the art form that captured Gen Z’s imagination, yet that’s exactly what’s happening in Park City. A group of young creators has turned unconventional venues, community energy, and a fearless approach into a cultural shift that few saw coming.
PARK CITY, Utah — After performing three sold-out performances of the Barber of Seville in Park City in August, Park City Opera decided to present a family-friendly holiday opera, ‘The Gift of the Magi’. Performances will take place at the Park City Community Church, 4501 Hwy 224, Park City, on Dec. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m with doors opening at 6 p.m.
On many Park City evenings, a stage somewhere is lighting up — actors orate, guitars ring, sopranos sing, a crowd applauds. As Lisl Wangermann of Park City Opera said of visiting performers at this summer’s Barber of Seville, “They could not stop raving about this amazing place.”
Right off the happy ending where Count Almaviva marries Rosina in the full-length production debut of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” two months ago, the Park City Opera is getting back on stage this weekend.
Once again Utah has wowed us with an amazing Labor Day weekend, beginning with Swiss Days in Midway on Friday to Miners’ Day on Monday, but the highlight of the weekend was Park City Opera’s beautiful, funny and creative performance of Rossini’s “Barber of Seville” on Saturday night.
The foundation, the fundraising arm of the Promontory development in Summit County, raises thousands of dollars to support local groups every year as part of its Fourth of July celebration. To date, the Promontory Foundation has made an impact of more than $8.9 million, with $3.2 million in awarded grants and $5.7 million in matching funds.
In this ski town, the first full opera to be performed in over 20 years is getting ready for curtain call. The organizers behind it are hoping to make the classical art form cool, fun and accessible for everyone — especially for young people.
The Park Record caught up with the main cast earlier this week during rehearsals at Temple Har Shalom, and the artists, all of whom live in different parts of the country, expressed their love for the production, Park City and Park City Opera.
While Park City Opera is neck deep in preparations for the world-premiere of its full-scale production of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in two weeks, Benjamin Beckman, the company’s artistic director, wants to give the public little lesson in “The History of Opera In Utah.”
After 20 years without opera in the area, Park City Opera will host its first main stage production, “The Barber of Seville,” this month at the Santy Auditorium and Premiere PC.
Park City Opera will raise the curtain on its debut production, “The Barber of Seville,” in less than four weeks. Instead of just throwing local audiences into the production, which will premiere on Aug. 24 at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium and continue Aug. 29 and 30 at Premiere Park City, the opera company will introduce selections from Gioachino Rossini’s work, which some consider a masterpiece of comedy within music, throughout the month.
We hope to ease the barrier of trying something new by doing opera in spaces that are already familiar to our community.