(Credit: Royal Opera House Covent Garden official website) The Royal Opera House Covent Garden has announced five new streams to kick off the new year. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. The opera house will first stream Sir David McVicar’s production of Gounod’s “Faust” from 2019. The opera stars Erwin Schrott as the devil {…}
The Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires has announced its 2022 season featuring opera, concerts, and great performers. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Verónica Cangemi, Alexandra Grigoras, Saimir Pirgu, Behzod Davronov, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, María Belén Rivarola, Alfonso Mujica, Armando Noguera, Fernando Radó, Lucas Debevec Mayer, Juan Font, Felipe Carelli, Sergio Spina, and Iván Maier. Alain Guingal conducts the {…}
(Credit: Alexey Kostromin) Polish soprano Ewa Płonka has withdrawn as the cover for Anna Netrebko’s Lady Macbeth at the Teatro alla Scala’s season opener. Płonka will also not sing the final performance in Verdi’s operatic masterpiece on Dec. 29, 2021. “Friends, due to personal reasons I will not be taking part in Macbeth production this December in La Scala but {…}
(Credit Brescia Amisano / Teatro alla Scala) The Teatro alla Scala will broadcast its opening night production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” on Rai Cultura. Rai will first showcase the production on Rai1 at 7:45. The production, which will be directed by Arnalda Canali, will be transmitted on Radio3, Rai1 HD canale 501, and on RaiPlay, where it will be available for {…}
(Credit: Bolshoi Theatre official website) The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced that tenor Yusif Eyvazov will not be appearing in the role of Calaf in Puccini’s “Turandot” for performances between July 1 – 10, 2022. As a result, tenor Murat Karahan will take over the role. Karahan joins a cast that includes Graham Clark, René Pape, Grigory Shkarupa, Olga {…}
On Dec. 7, 2021 the Teatro alla Scala will open with a new production of Verdi’s “Macbeth” featuring an all-star cast. The production will reunite Anna Netrebko and Luca Salsi in the lead roles after having opened the season during the 2019-20 season in a new production of “Tosca.” They will be joined by Francesco Meli, who also starred in {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced that Anna Netrebko will return during the 2022 season. The company revealed that the soprano will return alongside Yusif Evyazov in Franco Zeffirelli’s “Turandot” on August 4, 7, and 10, 2022. The soprano will also sing the role of Abigaille in “Nabucco” for two performances on July 7 and 10, 2022. The performances will mark {…}
This week audiences can experience a new solo album by one of opera’s reigning divas, two new albums by a great coloratura, a world premiere and two new DVDs from recent productions. Here is a look at this week’s new releases. Amata dalle Tenebre Deutsche Grammophon releases Anna Netrebko’s new album “Amata Dalle Tenebre,” which marks the soprano’s first studio {…}
Anna Netrebko has canceled her role debut as Abigaille in “Nabucco” at the Wiener Staatsoper due to an urgent shoulder surgery. The company announced that the soprano has an acute problem in her right shoulder that will force her to undergo an urgent operation. As a result, Netrebko will not appear at the Wiener Staatsoper this fall and noted a {…}
(Credit: Julian Hargreaves) On Oct. 20, Anna Netrebko will release her first cook book entitled “Der Geschmack meines Lebens – Das erste Buch von Opern-Topstar Anna Netrebko.” The new book, which is only available in German, shows how the star soprano manages to keep family and singing, private and professional life in balance through cooking. The book goes through her personal {…}
Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov’s Helinski concert has been postponed. The concert, which was set to be performed on Oct. 19 at the Musiikkitalo in Helsinki, Finland, will be rescheduled for a new date that has yet to be confirmed. The couple was set to present a program of opera arias, international art songs, Neapolitan song, and operetta. They were {…}