Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Lisette Oropesa, Elīna Garanča & Sondra Radvanovsky Lead Teatro San Carlo’s 2023-24 Season

The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli has announced its 2023-24 Season featuring concerts and operas. Sondra Radvanovsky and Oksana Dyka sing the title role in Puccini’s “Turandot” with Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Yusif Eyvazov, SeokJong Baek, Rosa Feola, and Amina Edris. Dan Ettinger conducts the new production by Vasily Barkhatov. Performance Dates: Dec.9-17, 2023 Mattia Olivieri, Alessandro Spina, Piero Pretti, Alex Esposito, {…}

Mar 21, 2023

Masabane Cecilia Rangwanash, Asmik Grigorian & Barbara Hannigan Lead London Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

The London Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season. For this article, here is a look at the vocal performances. Barbara Hannigan and Fleur Barron lead a concert that includes music by Haydn, Strauss, Ligeti, Luigi Nono, and Claude Vivier. Performance Dates: Sept. 14 & 17, 2023 Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” will be conducted by Barbara Hannigan. The concert will also {…}

Mar 20, 2023

Simon Keenlyside, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hannigan, Josefina Maldonado Headline The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. The season opens with performances of “Amadeus” featuring The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Richard Kaufman conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21 – 24, 2023 Simon Keenlyside leads a program featuring music by Mahler. Franz Welser-Möst conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 12 {…}

Oct 28, 2022

Joyce DiDonato, Lisette Oropesa & Fritz Wunderlich Lead New CD/DVD Releases

This week audiences will get a chance to hear complete recordings of many great operas rare and standard repertoire. Here is a look at the recordings you can not miss. Theodora Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, and John Chest star in Erato’s new release of Händel’s “Theodora.” The album features Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of the instrumentalists {…}

Oct 20, 2022

Michael Kelly, Ermonela Jaho, Asmik Grigorian & Barbara Hannigan Lead New CD/DVD Releases

This week, audiences will get to check out a new documentary with three of the leading divas of our time, an album with Schubert lieder and contemporary and unknown pieces. Here is a look at this week’s new albums. Die schöne Müllerin Bright Shiny Things is set to release Schubert’s song cycle “Die schöne Müllerin,” in a world premiere arrangement {…}

Oct 6, 2022

Gramophone Awards Announces 2022 Winners

Gramphone has announced its 2022 awards. The Bayerische Staatsoper won the Recording of the Year for its DVD of “Die Tote Stadt.” The recording also won Opera Award. The company also took home the Orchestral award from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester’s recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony while Cornelius Meister and the Bayerische Staatsoper’s DVD and Blu-Ray recording of {…}

Sep 12, 2022

Barbara Hannigan Extends Contract with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra has extended Barbara Hannigan’s contract as Principal Guest Conductor. The Canadian soprano will serve in her position through summer of 2025. Hannigan has been the principal guest conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra since 2019 and has performed as both a soprano and conductor. She first appeared with the ensemble in 2013 as conductor and soloist {…}

Jul 7, 2022

Francesca Aspromonte, Barbara Hannigan, Ian Bostridge, Fleur Barron, Matthias Goerne Headline MITO SettembreMusica 2022 Festival

(Credit: Ribalta Studio) MITO SettembreMusica has announced its 16th edition, which will feature 116 concerts. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on the vocal performances, which will take place in Milan and/or Torino. Francesca Aspromonte will team up with violinist and conductor Boris Begelman and the Academia Montis Regalis for music by Scarlatti and Händel. Performance {…}

Mar 4, 2022

Musica Sacra Announces 2022 Spring Season

Musica Sacra has announced its Spring season under Music Director Kent Tritle. Kent Tritle continues Musica Sacra’s history of engagement with new and recent repertoire, featuring the world premiere of “The Name That Never Dies,” a commissioned work by Wang Jie; the “Te Deum” of Arvo Pärt; and Viktor Kalabis’s “Canticum canticorum.” The concert will also include Brahms’s “motet Schaffe {…}

Mar 4, 2022

Venera Gimadieva, Lise Davidsen, Barbara Hannigan & Franco Fagioli Highlight Concertgebouw Amsterdam’s 2022-23 Season

The Concertgebouw Amsterdam has announced its 2022-23 season. Here are the operatic, vocal, and choral highlights of the season. Michele Mariotti conducts the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Bellini’s “Norma” with Venera Gimadieva, Salome Jicia, Piero Pretti, and Riccardo Fassi. Performance Date: Sept. 10, 2022 Le Concert de la Loge will be led by Julien Chauvin and will feature soloists Emöke {…}

Feb 21, 2022

Barbara Hannigan Appointed First Ever Associate Artist with London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra has announced that Barbara Hannigan has been appointed LSO Associate Artist for a period of three years. The position of Associate Artist is a new role created by the LSO to sit alongside the LSO’s family of conductors. Associate Artists are musicians with distinct influences, quality, and style that add diversity and richness to the LSO, {…}

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