Jill Anna Ponasik, Producing Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
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Never Mind the Plot in ‘Alcina’
This cut-down chamber version of Handel opera has great voices and great spirit.
Nov 13th, 2024 by Dominique Paul Noth
Handel As You’ve Never Seen (or Heard) Before
Milwaukee Opera Theatre will stage innovative version of 1735 opera 'Alcina.'
Nov 6th, 2024 by Martha Brown
Renaissance’s ‘The Moors’ Is a ‘Excellent Menagerie’
This is not theater for everyone, but it is good theater that upends theater norms.
Oct 22nd, 2024 by Dominique Paul Noth
The Florentine Opera Rebels
Butterfly and Carmen Are Coming!
Mar 15th, 2024 by Florentine Opera Company
Florentine’s ‘Songbird’ Successfully Mixes Opera, Jazz
Show's short but imaginative run concludes Sunday.
Feb 17th, 2024 by Dominique Paul Noth
Florentine Opera Songbird Press Release
Romantic Comedy Unfolds in the Heart of Mardi Gras, Studio Artist Alums Return to Milwaukee
Jan 24th, 2024 by Florentine Opera Company
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!
Mar 20th, 2023 by Dominique Paul Noth
A World Premiere of Requiem by Local Composer
Chant Claire will perform Paula Foley Tillen's Requiem at Sunday concert.
Jan 25th, 2023 by Martha Brown
Rach Meets Rachmaninoff
Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s "Preludes" is a unique yet disappointing musical theater work about the composer.
Apr 5th, 2022 by Dominique Paul Noth
Florentine’s Smaller Show Is Charming
Two early 20th century mini-operas, 'Cinderella,' and a Ravel work about a naughty child, are well performed.
Mar 14th, 2022 by Dominique Paul Noth
Skylight’s ‘Shackleton’ Is a Wild One
Elusive, fascinating, hypnotic musical with terrific performances. It will linger in your mind.
Jan 25th, 2022 by Dominique Paul Noth
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
Jan 20th, 2022 by Skylight Music Theatre
Regional Premiere of Ernest Shackleton Loves Me Postponed One Week Due to Breakthrough Covid-19 Cases
New Dates January 21 – February 6, 2022
Jan 7th, 2022 by Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast, Creative Team for Regional Premiere of Award-Winning Off-Broadway Musical Ernest Shackleton Loves Me
January 14-30, 2022
Dec 15th, 2021 by Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Season Is Filled With Firsts
Including three shows never before performed in Milwaukee.
May 27th, 2021 by Jeff Jordan
The Florentine Opera Presents Weill’s Little Mahagonny
Return to Stage with a Grand Opera Performance and Small Orchestra
Apr 16th, 2021 by Florentine Opera Company
Long-Running Skylight Music Theatre KidsWrites Program Turns Student Writing Into Professional Music Theatre Songs
Pandemic Year Inspires KidsWrites 2020-21: Time Capsule
Apr 14th, 2021 by Skylight Music Theatre
Unique ‘Zoiree’ Features SistaStrings
Plus puppets, a musical choir and a theme of internet imposters and called ‘The Sound.’
Feb 18th, 2021 by Dominique Paul Noth
Let Us Now Sing About the Pandemic
Milwaukee Opera Theatre ‘zoirèe’ premieres a new musical, 'In the Clouds'. It’s fun.
Jan 25th, 2021 by Dominique Paul Noth
Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: In The Cloud: A story in five songs by Matt Zembrowski
Part I of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre Distance Commissions
Jan 18th, 2021 by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Milwaukee Opera Theatre joins national opera collaboration!
decameronoperacoalition.org
Oct 7th, 2020 by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season
Line-Up Adjusts Productions, Timeline to Present Outstanding Music Theatre while Addressing Safety Measures
Aug 31st, 2020 by Skylight Music Theatre
Skylight Music Theatre Announces MKE Makes: A New Musical Works Series
2020-2021 Series to Launch with Focus on BIPOC Authors
Aug 18th, 2020 by Skylight Music Theatre
A ‘Ruddigore’ For the Ages
Skylight production of less-known Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is clever, funny and smartly sung.
Jan 6th, 2020 by Dominique Paul Noth
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
Dec 4th, 2019 by Skylight Music Theatre
“Utterance” Is a Music Theater Event
Powerful music beautifully sung and staged in a uniquely theatrical way. Don’t miss it.
Oct 30th, 2019 by Brendan Fox
Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: Utterance
Ancient Prophecies | Modern Revelations. Music by Orlande de Lassus and Amanda Schoofs | Poetry by Amanda Schoofs
Oct 8th, 2019 by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Doing Fine ‘Oklahoma!’
Skylight’s stripped down approach brings freshness to 76 year old musical
Sep 30th, 2019 by Dominique Paul Noth
Skylight Hires New Artistic Director
New York-based director Michael Unger hired. Ponasik will continue as artistic advisor.
Jul 17th, 2019 by Dominique Paul Noth
Final Nominees Announced for 2019 Footlights People’s Choice Awards
And the nominees are...
May 6th, 2019 by Footlights
Skylight’s ‘Carmina Burana’ Will Wow You
The most original and mesmerizing production I’ve seen this season.
Mar 18th, 2019 by Dominique Paul Noth
Carmina Burana Becomes Big Little Show
Carl Orff’s musical setting of medieval monks’ poems gets a dramatic staging with dancers.
Mar 14th, 2019 by Jim Cryns
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
Jan 17th, 2019 by Skylight Music Theatre
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
Sep 24th, 2018 by Skylight Music Theatre
Join the Bridal Party!
Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere of Svadba - Wedding
Apr 9th, 2018 by Wild Space Dance Company
“Tales of Hoffman” Is Inventive, Enchanting
Skylight and Milwaukee Opera collaboration finds more than great music in Offenbach’s romantic tale.
Mar 20th, 2018 by Dominique Paul Noth
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
Feb 12th, 2018 by Skylight Music Theatre
Jill Anna Ponasik Named Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Associate
Ponasik will continue her role as producing artistic director of Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
Sep 1st, 2017 by Skylight Music Theatre
Truly a Singular Sensation
Milwaukee Opera’s radical production of A Chorus Line inverts the ages of performers.
Aug 28th, 2017 by Dominique Paul Noth
Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: VICTORY FOR VICTORIA
A premiere
Oct 4th, 2016 by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
Local Collaboration Unveils Song From the Uproar
Milwaukee Opera Theatre and Wild Space Dance Company present Milwaukee premiere
Apr 7th, 2016 by Wild Space Dance Company
Milwaukee Opera Theatre presents: THE STORY OF MY LIFE
Music and Lyrics by Neil Bartram / Book by Brian Hill
Nov 3rd, 2015 by Milwaukee Opera Theatre
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.
Apr 21st, 2015 by Michael Barndt
The Kreutzer Sonata Is Elegant, Powerful
Renaissance staging imaginatively merges music and drama in captivating adaptation of Tolstoy story.
Jan 27th, 2015 by Dominique Paul Noth
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Milwaukee Rep’s Good People, set in South Boston, is a comic drama about that question.
Jan 23rd, 2015 by Claire Nowak
