Access to opera can sometimes feel out of reach, especially for audience members with diverse abilities and accommodation needs. Cincinnati Opera strives to change that with its second annual Access Night at the Opera, on Saturday, June 15, with its season-opening production of Mozart's Don Giovanni.
Amid Cincinnati's diverse cultural landscape, Cincinnati Opera Young Professionals (COYP) is turning heads with its dynamic approach to arts engagement.
Suzanne Martinucci reflects on the world that La Bohème creates.
“I love the way the opera begins. We know that the opening music comes from the Capriccio Sinfonico, a piece Puccini composed years earlier while he was a student. Here it brings to mind someone energetically and determinedly – perhaps stamping the cold out of his feet – marching up all those stairs to the garret where Rodolfo and Marcello are working, sweeping all of us along…”
