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The Florentine Opera Rebels
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The Florentine Opera Rebels

Butterfly and Carmen Are Coming!

Theater: Florentine’s ‘Songbird’ Successfully Mixes Opera, Jazz
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Florentine’s ‘Songbird’ Successfully Mixes Opera, Jazz

Show's short but imaginative run concludes Sunday.

Florentine Opera Songbird Press Release
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Florentine Opera Songbird Press Release

Romantic Comedy Unfolds in the Heart of Mardi Gras, Studio Artist Alums Return to Milwaukee

Classical: Florentine Really Really Updates Mozart
Classical

Florentine Really Really Updates Mozart

Antic version of 'Cosi Fan Tutte' set in college student union, with updated language and rock music added. What a romp!

Classical: A World Premiere of Requiem by Local Composer
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A World Premiere of Requiem by Local Composer

Chant Claire will perform Paula Foley Tillen's Requiem at Sunday concert.

Theater: Rach Meets Rachmaninoff
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Rach Meets Rachmaninoff

Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s "Preludes" is a unique yet disappointing musical theater work about the composer.

Classical: Florentine’s Smaller Show Is Charming
Classical

Florentine’s Smaller Show Is Charming

Two early 20th century mini-operas, 'Cinderella,' and a Ravel work about a naughty child, are well performed.

Theater: Skylight’s ‘Shackleton’ Is a Wild One
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Skylight’s ‘Shackleton’ Is a Wild One

Elusive, fascinating, hypnotic musical with terrific performances. It will linger in your mind.

Skylight Music Theatre Presents Free Screening of Documentary South
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Skylight Music Theatre Presents Free Screening of Documentary South

Saturday, January 29 at 3:45 p.m. Presented in Conjunction with Skylight’s Musical Ernest Shackleton Loves Me

Regional Premiere of <em>Ernest Shackleton Loves Me</em> Postponed One Week Due to Breakthrough Covid-19 Cases
Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Regional Premiere of Award-Winning Off-Broadway Musical Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
Theater: Skylight Season Is Filled With Firsts
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Skylight Season Is Filled With Firsts

Including three shows never before performed in Milwaukee.

The Florentine Opera Presents Weill’s Little Mahagonny
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The Florentine Opera Presents Weill’s Little Mahagonny

Return to Stage with a Grand Opera Performance and Small Orchestra

Long-Running Skylight Music Theatre KidsWrites Program Turns Student Writing Into Professional Music Theatre Songs
Music: Unique ‘Zoiree’ Features SistaStrings
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Unique ‘Zoiree’ Features SistaStrings

Plus puppets, a musical choir and a theme of internet imposters and called ‘The Sound.’

Theater: Let Us Now Sing About the Pandemic
Theater

Let Us Now Sing About the Pandemic

Milwaukee Opera Theatre ‘zoirèe’ premieres a new musical, 'In the Clouds'. It’s fun.

Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: In The Cloud: A story in five songs by Matt Zembrowski
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Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: In The Cloud: A story in five songs by Matt Zembrowski

Part I of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre Distance Commissions

Milwaukee Opera Theatre joins national opera collaboration!
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Milwaukee Opera Theatre joins national opera collaboration!

decameronoperacoalition.org

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season
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Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season

Line-Up Adjusts Productions, Timeline to Present Outstanding Music Theatre while Addressing Safety Measures

Skylight Music Theatre Announces MKE Makes: A New Musical Works Series
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Skylight Music Theatre Announces MKE Makes: A New Musical Works Series

2020-2021 Series to Launch with Focus on BIPOC Authors

Theater: A ‘Ruddigore’ For the Ages
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A ‘Ruddigore’ For the Ages

Skylight production of less-known Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is clever, funny and smartly sung.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse
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Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse

Skylight Collaborates with Milwaukee Opera Theatre for Gilbert & Sullivan Gothic Melodrama. Performances January 3-19,2020 in the Studio Theatre

Classical: “Utterance” Is a Music Theater Event
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“Utterance” Is a Music Theater Event

Powerful music beautifully sung and staged in a uniquely theatrical way. Don’t miss it.

Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: Utterance
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Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: Utterance

Ancient Prophecies | Modern Revelations. Music by Orlande de Lassus and Amanda Schoofs | Poetry by Amanda Schoofs

Theater: Doing Fine ‘Oklahoma!’
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Doing Fine ‘Oklahoma!’

Skylight’s stripped down approach brings freshness to 76 year old musical

Theater: Skylight Hires New Artistic Director
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Skylight Hires New Artistic Director

New York-based director Michael Unger hired. Ponasik will continue as artistic advisor.

Final Nominees Announced for 2019 Footlights People’s Choice Awards
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Final Nominees Announced for 2019 Footlights People’s Choice Awards

And the nominees are...

Theater: Skylight’s ‘Carmina Burana’ Will Wow You
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Skylight’s ‘Carmina Burana’ Will Wow You

The most original and mesmerizing production I’ve seen this season.

Theater: Carmina Burana Becomes Big Little Show
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Carmina Burana Becomes Big Little Show

Carl Orff’s musical setting of medieval monks’ poems gets a dramatic staging with dancers.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces the Return of Things that go Ding! Back by Overwhelming Demand
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Skylight Music Theatre Announces the Return of Things that go Ding! Back by Overwhelming Demand

February 22 – March 3, 2019 in Skylight’s Cabot Theatre

Skylight Music Theatre Announces New Weekend Cabaret Series and ‘One Night Only’ Salon Series
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Skylight Music Theatre Announces New Weekend Cabaret Series and ‘One Night Only’ Salon Series

First Cabaret September 28 to Feature Winner of 2018 Lee Dougherty Ross Debut Award

Join the Bridal Party!
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Join the Bridal Party!

Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere of Svadba - Wedding

Classical: “Tales of Hoffman” Is Inventive, Enchanting
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“Tales of Hoffman” Is Inventive, Enchanting

Skylight and Milwaukee Opera collaboration finds more than great music in Offenbach’s romantic tale.

Skylight Music Theatre and Milwaukee Opera Theatre Unite Forces for The Tales of Hoffmann
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Skylight Music Theatre and Milwaukee Opera Theatre Unite Forces for The Tales of Hoffmann

A Newly Translated and Freshly Re-orchestrated Version of Offenbach’s Otherworldly Tales Directed by Jill Anna Ponasik. Performances March 16-29, 2018

Jill Anna Ponasik Named Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Associate
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Jill Anna Ponasik Named Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Associate

Ponasik will continue her role as producing artistic director of Milwaukee Opera Theatre.

Theater: Truly a Singular Sensation
Theater

Truly a Singular Sensation

Milwaukee Opera’s radical production of A Chorus Line inverts the ages of performers.

Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: VICTORY FOR VICTORIA
Local Collaboration Unveils Song From the Uproar
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Local Collaboration Unveils Song From the Uproar

Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere

Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: THE STORY OF MY LIFE
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Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: THE STORY OF MY LIFE

Music and Lyrics by Neil Bartram / Book by Brian Hill

Classical: Wild Hilarity and Ravishing Lyricism?
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Wild Hilarity and Ravishing Lyricism?

Get ready for another crazy Present Music concert. It's entitled "Hilarious," but that may be just the half of it.

Review: <i>The Kreutzer Sonata</i> Is Elegant, Powerful
Review

The Kreutzer Sonata Is Elegant, Powerful

Renaissance staging imaginatively merges music and drama in captivating adaptation of Tolstoy story.

Theater: When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Theater

When Bad Things Happen to Good People

Milwaukee Rep’s Good People, set in South Boston, is a comic drama about that question.