There are 17 article(s) tagged Ned Canty:

• August 2024

  • Opera Memphis will stage ‘Carmen,’ Edgar Allan Poe-inspired operas

    The group announced its new season and plans to host an international opera conference in Memphis.

    By Elle Perry August 13, 2024

• May 2024

  • Opera Memphis sets ‘La Bohème’ on Beale Street in 1915

    The Metropolitan Opera tenor who stars as Rodolfo believes “La Bohème' serves as an archetype for modern TV sitcoms that also center around six friends. Like “Living Single.”

    By Elle Perry May 15, 2024

  • How Beale Street influenced ‘La Bohème’ at Opera Memphis

    Ned Canty and Dennis Whitehead Darling joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar to talk about the production, the cast and how Darling came to love opera.

    By Eric Barnes May 09, 2024

• October 2023

  • New, Memphis-set ‘La Boheme’ featured in Opera Memphis’ latest season

    The show will be inspired by the time in Memphis when W.C. Handy and William Grant Still were working together on Beale Street.

    By Žak Ozmo October 17, 2023

• April 2023

  • Opera Memphis preview: ‘The Falling and the Rising’

    “This opera is about empathy. It is about understanding other people’s sacrifice. It is about understanding our responsibility to them, and to each other. It is about things that we forget at our own peril, be it in war, pandemic, our family, our city, our country or the world.”

    By Žak Ozmo April 18, 2023

• January 2023

  • First look at Opera Memphis’ future Midtown home

    One of the opera’s major goals with the move is to be able to use the space cooperatively and collaboratively with other arts groups.

    By Christin Yates January 26, 2023

• July 2022

  • Opera Memphis to sing a new song in a new place

    Opera Memphis is currently considering four properties for its new home, three of which are located in the Edge District, an area that Ned Canty said “was deeply appealing from the beginning.”

    By Christin Yates July 05, 2022

• May 2022

  • Opera Memphis’ latest classic comes complete with surprise ending

    Opera Memphis’ upcoming one-night showing of “Cosi fan tutte” will rely on audience participation. But, don’t worry, the crowd won’t be asked to sing. 

    By Sam Hegenheiser May 16, 2022

• July 2021

  • Taking opera out of the opera house

    Opera Memphis’ Ned Canty talks to Eric Barnes about the organization’s efforts to bring opera out of the opera house, the struggle to support performers during COVID, and the opportunities Opera Memphis has going forward. 

    By Eric Barnes July 01, 2021

• December 2020

  • Bringing opera to Memphis on a flatbead trailer: A pandemic pivot likely to roll on

    Taking opera from the concert halls to the streets was not a new notion for Opera Memphis. Their annual “30 Days of Opera” features small pop-up performances in unlikely places, from playgrounds and dog parks to libraries and groceries. 

    By Chris Herrington December 25, 2020

  • ArtsMemphis launches ‘Arts Week’ in a community changed, perhaps forever, by pandemic

    While the impact of COVID makes this a particularly urgent moment for the survival of the city’s creative community, ArtsMemphis also plans to make Arts Week an annual event. 

    By Chris Herrington December 07, 2020

• April 2020

  • A moviegoer’s guide to the arts

    With stages, theaters and galleries dark, turn to movie streaming platforms for works on the arts.

    By Jill Johnson Piper April 19, 2020

• March 2020

  • The Extra Podcast: How Opera Memphis continues to work outside the opera house

    Ned Canty of Opera Memphis talks about the Ramones, how opera became a "tool of social exclusion," and the evolution of opera globally and in Memphis.

    By Eric Barnes March 14, 2020

• September 2019

  • ‘All killer, no filler’ for joint Memphis Symphony, Opera Memphis season opener

    The concert is an exhilarating mix of the fresh and the familiar, from 'The William Tell Overture' to 'You'll Never Walk Alone.' 

    By Jill Johnson Piper September 23, 2019

  • Grit and grind meets top hat and monocle: 30 Days of Opera

    Instead of waiting for people to come to the opera house, 30 Days takes opera to festivals, libraries, restaurants and parks. “Having an opera singer 10 feet from you is like being on a roller coaster or in a windstorm,” says Opera Memphis' director Ned Canty.

    By Jill Johnson Piper September 18, 2019

• December 2018

  • ‘La Posada’ features Opera Memphis singers, immigrant detention center replica

    Since September, there has been a replica of a U.S. immigrant detention center cage at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. And on Saturday, Opera Memphis singers and a pianist will perform in that custom-built structure.

    By Elle Perry December 08, 2018

• September 2018

  • 30 Days of Opera, McCleave Project extend Opera Memphis’ reach

    The end of September is approaching rapidly, but there are still several opportunities to catch an Opera Memphis 30 Days of Opera performance.

    By Elle Perry September 28, 2018