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2016/2017 Press Coverage

Press coverage from the 2016/2017 Season

Click the links below for press coverage of Arizona Opera productions for 2016/2017. Our gala 45th season includes Ruskalka, Madama Butterfly, Riders of the Purple Sage (a world-premiere production), Cinderella, and the 45th Anniversary Sapphire Celebration.

2016/2017 Press by Opera

45th Anniversary Sapphire Celebration

RUSALKA

Madama Butterfly

Riders of the Purple Sage

2016/2017 Print Press Coverage

Date Media Outlet Title
11/1/16 Phoenix New Times Triple Play | History
11/1/16 Southwest Folk Life

Spit and Sewing Needles: The Art of Handmade Costumes
10/28/16 Douglas Dispatch

Faras students get a visit from the Arizona Opera
10/26/16 AZ Central

Arts leaders seek answer for youth engagement downturn
10/24/16 KJZZ

A Scary Stay: Opera Writer And Composer Visit Haunted Bisbee Hotel That Inspired Their Work
9/26/16 Phoenix New Times Phoenix 100 Creatives: Kathleen Trott on Running Arizona Opera's Costume Shop
9/19/16 Downtown Devil

Eighth annual Park(ing) Day celebrates public space downtown
9/16/16 AZ Central

Park(ing) Day shows there's more to downtown Phoenix than concrete, streets
9/15/16 AZ Central

How did the ghost of a Bisbee prostitute become the center of a new opera?
8/29/16 AZ Central

September's Top 10 classical music, dance and opera performances in Phoenix
8/26/16 Arizona Republic Arizona Opera's Joseph Specter has big shoes to fill
8/25/16 Red Book AZ Opera’s Head of Music, Director to Serve with Glimmerglass Festival 
8/25/16 Tucson.com Arizona Opera Studio Director Lands Glimmerglass Gig
8/25/16 Tucson Weekly Fall Arts Preview - Miscellaneous Fun
8/24/16 Liven Up Fall Arts Preview - Tucson
6/13/16 Arizona Horizon | PBS Joe Specter on Arizona Horizon
6/1/16 KBAQ Heart of the Arts: Introducing Arizona Opera's Joseph Specter
5/13/16 KJZZ Joseph Specter is Arizona Opera's New President
5/11/16 Arizona Commission on the Arts NEA Awards $663,000 in Grants to 22 Arizona Arts Programs
4/29/16 The Austin Chronicle Austin Opera's Jospeh Specter Departing
4/29/16 Arizona Daily Star Arizone Opera names new boss
4/29/16 Phoenix New Times Arizona Opera Announces New Director, Joseph Specter
4/29/16 Arizona Republic Arizona Opera names Austin's Joseph Specter as general director
4/29/16 AZ Big Media Arizona Opera appoints new general director
4/28/16 AZ Redbook Joseph Specter Selected as President and General Director
4/28/16 Phoenix Business Journal Arizona Opera Gets New Director
4/28/16 Broadway World Arizona Opera Appoints New General Director Joseph Specter
4/28/16 Austin360 Austin Opera loses top exec to Arizona Opera