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News, Season Announcement

Joyce DiDonato, Lea Desandre, Michael Spyres, Véronique Gens, Emőke Baráth & Dario Solari Headline Opéra de Dijon’s 2025-26 Season

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The Opéra de Dijon has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. The Orchestre National de France performs alongside Cristian Măcelaru and Joyce DiDonato. The program includes music by Alma and Gustav Mahler and Strauss. Performance Date: Oct. 9, 2025 Lea Desandre stars as Händel’s “Theodora” with Hugh Cutting, Véronique Gens, Laurence Kilsby, and Alex Rosen. Thomas Dunford {…}

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Asmik Grigorian, Rolando Villazón, Xabier Anduaga, Jonathan Tetelman, Aigul Akhmetshina, Anastasia Bartoli, Camilla Nylund, Clay Hilley & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2025-26 Season

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(Credit: Deutsche Oper) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Detlev Glanert ‘s “Die drei Rätsel” will be conducted by Dominic Limburg and directed by Brigitte Dethier. The production will star Martina Baroni, Philipp Jekal, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Joel Allison, Padraic Rowan, Maria Vasilevskaya, and Alexandra Oomens. Performance Dates: Oct. 11, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026 Sir Donald Runnicles will {…}

News, Season Announcement

David Oller, Nicole Chevalier, José Simerilla Romero, Heather Engebretson & Johanna Wallroth Lead Theater Basel’s 2025-26 Season

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Theater Basel has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Kurt Weill’s “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny” will be directed by Benedikt von Peter. Jasmin Jorias Etezadzadeh, Ronan Caillet, Andrew Murphy, Solenn’ Lavanant Linke, Rolf Romei, Ervin Ahmeti, Elliott Carlton Hines, and Marius Aron star.  Stefan Klingele and Thomas Wise conduct. Performance Dates: August 28-Oct. 26, 2025 David Oller, Carmen Artaza, {…}

News, Season Announcement

Joyce El-Khoury, Magdalena Kožená, Jakub Józef Orliński, Sabine Devieilhe, Thomas Blondelle, Max Emanuel Cencic, Marina Monzó, & Alasdair Kent Lead Theater an der Wien’s 2025-26 Season

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The Theater an der Wien’s 2025-26 season. Rossini’s “L’occasione fa il ladro” opens the season in a production by Marcos Darbyshire. The cast includes Inna Demenkova, Alberto Robert, Roberto Lorenzi, Petra Radulovic, Ilyà Dovnar, and Lazar Parežanin. Pedro Beriso conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 23-Oct. 14, 2025 Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” will star Thomas Blondelle, Hulkar Sabirova, Alina Wunderlin, Leon Košavić, Krešimir Stražanac, David Fischer, Jana {…}

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Neue Stimmen Competition Winners Announced

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The Neue Stimmen Competition has announced its 2024 winners. The first-place winner went to soprano Magdalena Lucjan and bass Alejandro Baliñas Vieites. Meanwhile, second place went to mezzo-soprano Anita Monserrat and baritone Trevor Haunschilt-Rocha, while the third place was awarded to soprano Teona Todua, mezzo-soprano Seray Pinar, and baritone Finn Segal. Finally, the fourth place winner was baritone Ian Rucker. {…}

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Opéra National de Paris Announces First ‘Troupe Lyrique’ in 30 Years

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The Opéra National de Paris has announced that for the first time in 30 years, it will feature a “troupe lyrique” made up of seven singers. The artists include soprano Emy Gazeilles, soprano Ilanah Lobel-Torres, mezzo-soprano Marine Chagnon, tenor Nicholas Jones, tenor Maciej Kwasnikowski, baritone Florent Mbia, and bass Alejandro Baliñas Vieites. The group, which will take on over 30 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: The Greek Passion

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(Photo: SF/Monika Rittershaus) Bohuslav Martinů’s opera “The Greek Passion” is a work still in search of its audience. The opera, seldom performed, is considered to be one of Martinů’s finest compositions. This season’s Salzburg Festival tried hard to make “The Greek Passion” a rare and visually noteworthy production. But it didn’t quite work out. The opera’s political radicalness and musical accomplishments are {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris Atelier 2022-23 Review: La Scala di Seta

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(Credit:   ) It is very hard to stage a Rossini opera—and even harder to stage his comedies. The maestro of Pesaro’s comic timing, uses and abuses of coloraturas, and overly complicated sexual plots are so ingenious that one nail out of place can compromise the whole machine. Paris Opera Atelier’s staging of “La Scala di Seta” (book by Giuseppe Maria {…}