WPA News Digest – December 8, 2025

WPA News Digest – December 8, 2025

We hope you are keeping warm as you start this December week! The organization New York Women Composers (NYWC) has announced the 2025 recipients of their Seed Money Grants. The organization has awarded eight grants of $1000 each to support seven concert projects and...
WPA News Digest — November 11, 2025

WPA News Digest — November 11, 2025

Sarah Kirkland Snider’s opera HILDEGARD premiered on November 5th in a production by the Los Angeles Opera, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. The production appeared in LA Opera’s Off Grand series that showcases new works. It ran through November 9 at The Wallis in...
Happy Women’s History Month!

Happy Women’s History Month!

We are thrilled that many concerts are taking place to celebrate Women’s History Month – As our friend conductor Wilbur Lin says, “Elevating women artists should not be limited to a single month, but #WomenHistoryMonth is always a good time to review how we are...
Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!

By   Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia...
Dr. Marcia J. Citron on The Wreckers at Houston Grand Opera

Dr. Marcia J. Citron on The Wreckers at Houston Grand Opera

We are deeply honored to have Dr. Marcia J. Citron as a guest blogger. Dr. Citron is Professor Emerita at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. The author of When Opera Meets Film (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Opera on Screen (Yale UP, 2000), her groundbreaking...