(Credit: Merri Cyer) Nadine Sierra has canceled her upcoming performances at the Teatro Real de Madrid and Carnegie Hall. The soprano took to Instagram and said that due to fatigue she was canceling her upcoming performances. As a result, Lisette Oropesa will sing the Brahms German Requiem alongside Quinn Kelsey and the Met Orchestra and Chorus at Carnegie Hall. Meanwhile, {…}
French stage director Laurent Pelly is one of the most prolific and renowned stage directors today. Many of his productions are still being performed after premiering 20 years ago. He is a specialist in French repertoire and comedy. He also designs the costumes of his creations. His productions can be seen all over the world from Japan and Europe to {…}
The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2023-24 season featuring a wide array of repertoire. Opera Maria Agresta, Saioa Hernández, and Maria Pia Piscitelli star in Cherubini’s “Medea“ alongside Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Silvia Tro Santafé, Jongmin Park, Alexander Vinogradov, Sara Blanch, Marina Monzó, Enea Scala, and Francesco Demuro. Ivor Bolton conducts the production by Paco Azorín. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}
The Teatro Real, the highest institution of the Performing and Musical Arts in Spain, has joined the Spanish Association of Directors (AED) to contribute its experience in the internationalization, digitalization, and modernization of the cultural and artistic sector. Teatro Real can participate in the more than 200 annual activities that the AED celebrates in person and digitally, an agreement ratified {…}
Tenor Jorge de León and soprano Saioa Hernández were announced as the first recipients of Talía Awards. León received his Talía Award in the Best Male Lyrical Performer category. He was nominated for his Radames in “Aida” at the Teatro Real. Hernández won Best Female Lyric Interpreter for her Abigaille in “Nabucco” also at Teatro Real. The company brought home {…}
Teatro Real will make history as the world’s first opera house to present a live opera in the metaverse–an immersive virtual 3D environment where humans can have experiences outside the physical world. On Mar. 17, 2023, at 7:30 pm CET, the company will offer free viewing of Shostakovich’s “The Nose.” Using your avatar, you can watch the Barrie Kosky production {…}
A recorded speech before the performance of “Aquiles en Esciros,” explained to the audience that this opera production reached its final stage rehearsals when the pandemic closed down the theatre for months. Not knowing how the situation would develop, the theater kept the sets on the stage for weeks before dismantling them. The opera composed by Francesco Corselli premiered in Madrid {…}
The Teatro Real de Madrid canceled the Feb. 21 performance Corselli’s “Aquiles en Esciros” due to cast-wide illness. The Madrid theater said that neither Franco Fagioli nor Gabriel Díaz would be able to sing the role of Aquiles/Pirra due to illness. As a result, the performance will be moved to Feb. 26. Audience members with tickets will be able to {…}
Opera Europa has selected a new president. The association announced that Teatro Real’s General Director Ignacio García-Belenguer will be the new President of Opera Europa, the association that brings together more than 200 lyric theaters and festivals in Europe, China, New Zealand, India and Israel, among others. The association also selected Martin Glaser, General Director of Narodni divadlo Brno, as {…}
The Teatro Real de Madrid has rounded out the year with 13 performances of Bellini’s “La Sonnambula,” a title which had not been performed in Madrid for 22 years. What is often considered Bellini’s most balanced composition was presented with a strong double cast of international singers and a new production directed by the Spanish stage director Barbara Lluch. Salem {…}
The Academia de las Artes Escénicas in Spain has awarded the 2022 Medallas de Oro to the Teatro Real de Madrid. The medal will be given to the theater for its “essential role in the dissemination and practice of the performing arts.” The Teatro Real is among the elected companies to receive this high honor alongside Festival Internacional de Teatro {…}