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Stage Reviews

Kissinger Sommer 2026 Review: Baroque Queen

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(Photo: Julia Milberger) The 2026 Kissinger Sommer festival reached its final weekend with a highly anticipated event: the return of Cecilia Bartoli after a ten-year absence. To welcome back the popular Italian mezzo-soprano, the festival organizers took the unusual step of extending its schedule by an entire week. This extension created a special festival-within-a-festival, giving audiences three concerts over three {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci 2026 Review: Cefalo e Procride

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(Photo: Stefan Gloede) Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci has continued staging its flagship new opera production within the unique, historic Orangerieschloss. For seasoned festival-goers, the announcement of Giovanni Battista Bononcini’s “Cefalo e Procride” might initially have left a slight sense of lingering hunger. The scale of this single-act work aligns more closely with a compact serenata than a grand opera seria. Consequently, {…}

News, Season Announcement

Carmela Remigio, Maria Viviani, Timoteo Bene Junior, Said Gobechiya Star in 2026 Vicenza in Lirica Festival

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Vicenza in Lirica Festival announces 2026 lineup. Mozart’s “ The Marriage of Figaro” features Said Gobechiya, Erica Artina, Claudia Mavilia, Ignas Melnikas, Elisabetta Ricci, Maria Viviani, Huigang Liu, Fabio Sabadini, Agnese Funari, and Alberto Spadarotto. The Voc’è Choir and  Colli Morenici Orchestra perform. Alberto Spadarotto is the choirmaster. Costumes are by Ester Campagnaro and Anna Fabris. Performance Date: Aug. 21, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Oper Frankfurt 2025-26 Review: Amor vien dal destino

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(Photo: Matthias Baus) Although Agostino Steffani’s music has enjoyed intermittent modern attention—most notably through Cecilia Bartoli’s influential album—fully staged performances of his operas remain strikingly scarce. Written in the 1690s for Hannover, but first performed only in 1709 at the Düsseldorf court, “Amor vien dal destino” stands at a stylistic crossroads. Italianate vocal expressivity, French-influenced orchestral color, and the emerging {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci 2025 Review: Orlando generoso

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(Photo: Stefan Gloede) The three-act opera “Orlando generoso” by Agostino Steffani, conducted by Dorothee Oberlinger and performed by Ensemble 1700 with an outstanding cast, shone as one of the highlights of the 2025 Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. Premiered in 1691 in Hanover, the opera adapts a segment of Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso.” It is set in a fantasy version of China, {…}

Season Announcement

Here are the Vocal / Opera Performances on Offer at Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci’s 2025 Season

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(Photo Credit: Capucine de Chocqueuse) The Musikfestpiele Potsdam is set to open a production of “Orlando Generoso” as well as several other vocal offerings at its 2025 edition. Soprano Jehann Amzal, mezzo-soprano Emilie Rnard, tenor and conductor Reinourd van Mechelen, and bass-baritone Damien Pass headline a Telemann and Rameau program alongside A Nocte Temporis. Performance Dates: June 21, 2025 “Orlando Generoso,” {…}

News

Anna Netrebko, Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Flórez, Regula Mühlemann & Rolando Villazón Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2023-24 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights of the season. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Orchestre de Paris with soloists Bertrand Chamayou, Olga Peretyatko, Pavel Petrov, Alexey Markov, and Bertrand Mandico. The program includes music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Sept. 6 & 7, 2023 Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Building the Sorceress – Conductor David Bates & Mezzo-Soprano Madeleine Shaw on a New Approach to Purcell’s Iconic ‘Dido and Aeneas’

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Perhaps no other figure in the history of the baroque period was so transformative, productive, and instrumental in the development of England’s musical heritage than Henry Purcell. He was a composer whose legacy is, somewhat remarkably, both famous and forgotten the world round. Having been born into a musical family—beginning his musical career as a boy chorister at the Chapel {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Cecilia Bartoli, Jonas Kaufmann, Lawrence Brownlee & Michael Spyres Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences can experience dueling tenors, two Christmas albums, two baroque albums, two choral albums, and a pianist interpreting operatic favorites. Here is what you can stream this week. Amici e Rivali  Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee celebrate the art of the trailblazing star singers of Rossini’s time in a new album for Erato. The recording showcases arias, duets, {…}