Jenny Cook, the staff music therapist for the Songs by Heart Foundation, dances with memory care residents in Tulsa, OK. Program Expands Tulsa Opera’s Community Outreach to Therapeutically Engage People With Age-Related Memory Issues in Interactive Singing Specially...
Grammy Award-winning composer and Tulsa Opera Artistic Director Tobias Picker’s sixth opera, Awakenings, made its world premiere at Opera Theatre of St. Louis earlier this month. Adapted into a libretto by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and neuroradiologist...
To celebrate Black History Month, we’re taking a look at Oklahoma’s own opera legend Leona Mitchell. Grammy Award-winning and Oklahoma State Cultural Ambassador Leona Mitchell’s long and storied career has taken her to famous opera houses all over...
From The Guardian: “‘This opens doors’: Trans woman to play Don Giovanni in a first for US opera. Casting of Lucia Lucas marks first time a professional US company has hired a trans person to sing the lead in standard work.” Lucia Lucas, the...
Tulsa Opera has the joy of bringing back Christine Taylor Price to a story she took part in as a child. Christine is a native of Tulsa and – as a member of Tulsa Youth Opera – sang in the Children’s Chorus in the 2006 production of The Little Prince....
For 70 years, Tulsa – known for its windswept parries and gushing oil wells, has had another precious resource. Despite its size and location, Tulsa would become the home to a premier opera company. Through its 70 years, Tulsa Opera has consistently been at the...
