San Francisco Opera is set to present “Rise Up and Resist: A Commemorative Concert” on April 28, 2023 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater. Per an official press statement issued by San Francisco Opera, the showcase, “will span solemn musical remembrance; outlawed music performed in the Warsaw Ghetto in defiance of the Nazi regime; music performed by the {…}
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has announced their 2023 season of summer events. Among the events is “Sāvitri & Blond Eckbert,” a double bill of chamber operas that come from opposite ends of the 20th century. The former, by Holst, is based on a Sanskrit epic, and explore themes of love and devotion in the face of death, with {…}
The Illinois-based Elgin Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season, the 74th in its history. For the purposes of this article, our sole focus will be on vocal performances. The season opens with soprano Christine Brewer taking on Strauss’ famed “Four Last Songs.” Performance Dates: Oct. 7 & 8, 2023 The Elgin Symphony Orchestra season comes to a close with {…}
The Orquesta Filarmónica d Bogotá will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo on March 5, 2023. Emil Tabakov will conduct the showcase, featuring soprano Laura Arias, mezzo-soprano Daniela Callejas, tenor Sergio Blázquez, and bass Noé Colín. The Coro Filarmónico Juvenil will join them. The program will also feature Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3. {…}
On December 9, 2022, conductor Gustavo Dudamel will begin to release complete videos for all nine Beethoven Symphonies on his YouTube channel. Drawing from his performances with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Spain, Dudamel will release one symphony per day leading up to Beethoven’s birthday on the 17th. Soloists {…}
On October 26, 2022, Lincoln Center’s newly-renovated David Geffen Hall presented the first of its opening night galas, titled “The Journey.” The event was a momentous celebration of the music and history which has played so large a part through the numerous forms and iterations the hall has taken over the decades. The reinvented venue strikes a visually-appealing balance between {…}
New York’s Heartbeat Opera has announced its 2022-23 Season, which includes a video premiere and the company’s Spring Festival, featuring significant adaptions of Puccini’s “Tosca” and Verdi’s “Macbeth.” The Season kicks off with a free video premiere of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” featuring over 100 incarcerated singers from six prison choirs. Ethan Heard adapted and directed this re-imagining of the opera in {…}
On August 28, the Filarmónica de Bogotá in the capital city of Colombia united 16,000 músicians for a concert. The concert broke the record for most musicians in a show, saw musicians between four and 70 years of age unite to send a message of peace and reconciliation, and interpreted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The concert also performances of “Canción con {…}
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is set to open its 2022-23 season with a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Royce Hall and Alex Theatre on Oct. 15 and 16, 2022. Jaime Martin will conduct the performance which will star singers from a constellation of Southland Choirs. The showcase will also feature the West Coast premiere of Shelley Washington’s “Both.” {…}
Sergei Producciones Líricas, Divaria Productions, and the City Council of Logroño are teaming up to present a unique new adaptation of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on June 8, 2022. The iconic work will be adapted for chamber orchestra and chorus by conductor and composer Pedro Halffter. “Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, also known as ‘Chorale,’ is the {…}
Insula Orchestra is set to present Beethoven’s “Fidelio” in Brussels, London, and Paris. The company kicks off its “Fidelio” tour with a May 8 showcase in BOZAR, Brussels before presenting the piece at the Barbican Centre in London in a semi-staged showcase. That performance is slated for May 11, 2022. The tour will be capped by three performance at La {…}