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Copenhagen Opera Festival Announces 2026 Program Featuring Nicole Car, Levy Sekgapane, Freddie De Tommaso, Allison Cook & Andreas Scholl

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The Copenhagen Opera Festival announces its city-wide programming for 2026. Part two of Niels Rønsholdt and director Louise Beck’s opera trilogy, “Right of The Strong – The Duty of the Weak” is held. Performance Dates: Aug. 13 – 17, 2026 Soprano Elisabeth Rosenberg, tenor Gustav Wenzel Most, and pianist Charlotte Thaning perform works by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and Schubert live along {…}
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Axelle Fanyo, Heidi Stober, Craig Colclough, Christine Rice, Lauren Snouffer & Liam James Karai Lead English National Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s “Angel’s Bone” with Allison Cook, Rodney Earl Clarke, Matthew McKinney, Mariam Wallentin, and Keith Pun. Baldur Brönnimann conducts the production by Kip Williams. Performance Dates: Oct 16-31, 2026 Ben Glassberg conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” with Annilese Miskimmon directing. Axelle Fanyo headlines with Chaz’men Williams-Ali, {…}
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Buxton International Festival Announces 2026 Classical Season

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The Buxton International Festival announces choral and vocal recitals for its 2026 program. “Voices of the Peaks,” a new choral suite by Hannah Brine and Jenni Watson is presented by the High Peak Singers, Bollington Singers, and Didsbury Singers. Performance Date: July 11, 2026 Soprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton perform “North: Frown Silence,” the first of four linked {…}
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English National Opera Announces London Run of ‘Angel’s Bone’

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The English National Opera has announced that Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s “Angel’s Bone” will be performed at the London Coliseum in October 2026. The opera will be performed after its UK premiere in Greater Manchester in May, which was announced a few months ago. The cast will include Allison Cook, Rodney Earl Clarke, Matthew McKinney, Mariam Wallentin, and Keith Pun. {…}
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La Monnaie Announces New World Premiere

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La Monnaie de Mont has announced an upcoming world premiere opera. The company said that “during last week’s honorary doctorate ceremony for Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, Christina Scheppelmann revealed that he will write the libretto for ‘Elizabeth Costello in limbo,’ a new opera composed by Nicholas Lens for La Monnaie’s 2027–2028 season.” In a statement, Scheppelmann said, “This {…}
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Buxton International Festival 2025 Review: ‘Hamlet’

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(Photo: Genevieve Girling) The main opera presentation at this summer’s Buxton International Festival was Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 composition, “Hamlet,” to a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier. Although initially successful, it eventually faded from the international stage as the popularity of French grand opera declined; its last Parisian performance took place in 1938. In 1978, however, a staging in {…}
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Buxton International Festival 2025 Review: ‘Trouble In Tahiti’ & ‘La Voix Humaine’

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(Photo:Genevieve Girling) There really does need to be a connection between the operas chosen by a company if it decides to stage a double bill. Two randomly chosen pieces with little to tie the works together, or worse, drawing attention to certain common superficialities and presenting them as an artistically founded pairing, is not simply lazy programming but is also {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Jakub Józef Orliński, Asmik Grigorian, Elīna Garanča, Pretty Yende, Kate Lindsey, Marina Rebka, Julian Prégardien & Ludovic Tézier Lead Wiener Konzertahus’ 2025-26 Season

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The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. The Constellation Choir & Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner perform Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2025 Fabio Luisi conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in Franz Schmidt’s “Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln.” Soloists incude Maximilian Schmitt, David Steffens, Giulia {…}

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