Tonight from the stage of Music Hall, Evans Mirageas, Cincinnati Opera artistic director, unveiled details of the company’s 2027 Summer Festival. Performances will run from June 18 through August 1, 2027, featuring stories intended to explore courage and conviction, romantic wit, fierce passion, jubilant celebration and intimate discovery.”
If you’re asked to picture the CEO of a major U.S. zoo, the image you conjure might look a lot like David Jenike. Tall, friendly and decked out in logoed work shirt, pants and boots, he could as easily be heading to pitch in on exhibit construction as to a media interview.
All year long, Greater Cincinnati is blissfully awash in fine music. Recitals, chamber music, opera, symphonies. These are blessings that are so abundant that it can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming. But there is nothing quite like the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s Summermusik Festival.
Hamilton County has two major animal welfare organizations, the 153-year-old SPCA Cincinnati and 6-year old Cincinnati Animal CARE. Both are humane societies and no-kill organizations. Cincinnati Animal CARE also runs Hamilton County’s animal shelter, which the SPCA used to operate. Read on to better understand the role of each organization, their common ground, differences and challenges.
A job where you get to call nonprofits and tell them you are giving them several million dollars sounds gratifying. But the people at Yield Giving have to deal with the fact that at first no one believes them. The nonprofit getting the call often believes it’s a scam.
In 2024, Cincinnati Opera announced the creation of the three-opera Black Opera Project. The first of those three operas, “Lalovavi,” premieres at Music Hall on July 9, with music by Kevin Day and a libretto by poet Tifara Brown, with stage direction by Kimille Howard and conducted by Kevin Miller.
In the world of architecture, a foundation is often hidden from view, yet it determines the strength, height, and longevity of everything built above it. For the past 10 years, Jeffrey Sackenheim, AIA, LEED AP, has served as a primary architect for a different kind of structure: the foundation of mental health care in Kentucky and beyond.
Paraag Maddiwar finally had a moment to catch his breath. The executive director of Asianati had just gotten through that organization’s marquee annual event, the Asian Food Fest. This year’s estimated attendance, buoyed by nearly perfect weather, was at least 150,000 exceeding last year’s 125,000.
I’m 3 years old. I’m at summer theater camp, and it’s bathroom time. The girls’ is full, so my counselor shows me to the boys’. He points out an empty stall, and makes sure I get to it okay. That small act of kindness, one of my earliest childhood memories, would be illegal in Ohio today.
I love a good historical house tour, and I’ve taken walks through famous people’s houses more times than I can remember. Often they are furnished carefully in the style of a time period, with a sort of reverence for the objects the famous person touched.
