Monday Miscellaney

• The Philadelphia Orchestra announced ten new Digital Stage programs to take place between January and June this year; they'll include works by Mason Bates, Valerie Coleman, Florence Price, Caroline Shaw, Melinda Wagner, and others. The orchestra also announced the appointment of Nathalie Stutzmann as principal guest conductor, starting in the 2021-22 season.
• Opera America awarded IDEA Residencies to  composer Laura Jobin-Acosta, librettist  J. Mae Barizo, and composer Tamar-kali Brown. The press releases noted that "This new program provides New York City-based composers and librettists of color an opportunity to explore opera as an expressive medium." and also that "Each artist will receive a full-year residency at OPERA America’s National Opera Center and a total package of $22,500." 
• Sheri Greenawald was given the San Francisco Opera Medal by SFO, acknowledging her long service to the company, as a singer and as head of the San Francisco Opera Center. Greenawald retired from that position at the end of December, 2020. Full details at the SFO web site.
• Meanwhile, at the other SFO, Santa Fe Opera announced a series of Consider the Source seminars and conversations, about the source materials for several operas in their upcoming season. The first one is tomorrow (I apologize sincerely for the late notice); these look like a lot of fun. Full details are on the web site; the source works under consideration are the Beaumarchais Figaro trilogy; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; Pushkin's Eugene Onegin; Bram Stoker's Dracula and Euripides' Bacchae, the latter two for the new John Corigliano opera Lord of Cries.
• Opera Orlando notes that "The Opera has postponed the piano workshop of its first commissioned opera, The Secret River, and will now launch the Opera on the Town series this February with the world premiere of Death of Ivan Ilych in partnership with Thompson Street Opera Company."
• San Francico's Ross McKee Foundation has announced a tasty series of piano concerts and talks, of which the first is a tribute to the late Robin Sutherland. This is on February 5, 2021 and features such luminaries as Jeffrey Kahane, Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Jeffrey LaDeur.