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Opera Clementina, conducted by Darwin, finalist at 2025 International Opera Awards

Luigi Boccherini’s Dona Clementina, produced in April by Opera Southwest in Alburquerque, New Mexico, is a finalist for the 2025 International Opera Awards in the category of “Rediscovered Work”! The company presented the USA premiere of piece, sang in its original...
Radio talk on Viva Rachmaninoff

Radio talk on Viva Rachmaninoff

St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Darwin Aquino and pianist Brian Woods talk with Kathy Lawton Brown about “Viva Rachmaninoff” (Friday, April 25, 2025). This concert features Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, performed by Woods.

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Missouri Arts Council selects Darwin as Featured Artist

Missouri Arts Council selects Darwin as Featured Artist

Since we founded our Missouri Featured Artists Program in 2020, we have highlighted more than 200 imaginative makers from throughout the state. We’ve brought you painters, pencil artists, sculptors, dancers, singers, instrumental musicians, poets, novelists, filmmakers, ceramicists, jewelry artists, glass artists, and many more who create in myriad other ways. You’ll find them all in the ever-growing gallery below our current highlighted quartet.

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Watch 3 Opera World Premieres for Free

Watch 3 Opera World Premieres for Free

Now available to stream digitally at no cost! Experience the future of opera with three all-new 20-minute works. Stream the recording of the New Works Collective performance. https://opera-stl.org/whats-on/new-works-collective-2024/

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Joining the UIA Talent Agency for worldwide representation

Joining the UIA Talent Agency for worldwide representation

UIA Talent Agency is an entertainment enterprise with a reputation of excellence in representing a diverse roster of artists. […] UIA is the home to a broad spectrum of talent including classical singers for opera and concert, actors for stage and screen, directors, composers, librettists, playwrights, and conductors…

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Opera is for All

Opera is for All

Inaugurated as part of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ 2023 season, the New Works Collective is the company’s groundbreaking effort to bring new voices into the world of opera, as well as to connect new audience members with the art form by exploring characters and stories that embody the full spectrum of modern life…

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