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Season Announcement

Louise Alder, Beth Taylor, Ana Vieira Leite, Nick Pritchard Headline Monteverdi Choirs & Orchestras’ 2025-26 Season

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The Monteverdi Choirs & Orchestras unveiled their 2025-26 season. First up is a series of performance alongside conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique in London and Rimini. They will take on Mozart’s “Requiem” with such soloists as Louise Alder, Eva Zaicik, Laurence Kilsby and William Thomas, as well as Schubert’s Symphony No. 5, and Bach’s motet “Singet {…}

News, Season Announcement

Julie Fuchs, Julie Roset, Catherine Hunold & Ana Vieira Leite Lead Opéra Grand Avignon’s 2025-26 Season

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The Opéra Grand Avignon has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Débora Waldman conducts a production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” by Frédéric Roels. The opera will star Armando Noguera, Gabrielle Philiponet, Lianghua Gong, Mischa Schelomianski, Anaïk Morel, Tomislav Lavoie, Aimery Lefèvre, and Eduarda Melo. Performance Dates: Oct. 10-14, 2025 Mauro Borgioni, Marie Théoleyre, Floriane Hasler, Anna Rheinold, Furio Zanasi, and Salvo Vitale {…}

News, Streaming

J’Nai Bridges, Ana Vieira Leite, Juliette Mey, Rebecca Leggett Headline 2024-25 Season of ‘Carnegie Hall Live’

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(Credit: Dario Acosta) Carnegie Hall and WQXR have announced the 14th season of “Carnegie Hall Live.” The showcase will feature numerous live concert radio broadcasts hosted by Jeff Spurgeon of WQXR and John Schaefer of WNYC. For the purposes of this article, only vocal performances will be spotlighted. William Christie leads Les Arts Florissants in a concert featuring the works {…}

News

Sondra Radvanovsky, Nadine Sierra, Carolina López Moreno, Federica Lombardi & Xabier Anduaga Lead Festival de Granada’s 2025 Season

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The Festival de Granada has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Luis Arance, Marcelo Solís, Łukasz Biela, Rocío Faus, Solomía Antonyak, Belén Herrero, and Gonzalo Ruiz star in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” for kids. Performance Date: June 6, 2025 La Cetra performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor with soloists Jone Martínez, Lea Elisabeth Müller, Carlos Mena, Jakob Pilgram, {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Gianandrea Noseda & Nicole Heaston on Performing Barber’s ‘Vanessa’ With the National Symphony Orchestra & Aspects of Live Recordings

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 (Photo credit: Tony Hitchcock) Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize and receiving great acclaim following its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1958, Barber and Menotti’s “Vanessa” is not regularly programmed as a full work. Arias such as “Must the winter come so soon?” and “Do not utter a word” are frequently heard in recitals, but this does not do justice to this {…}

News

Marion Cotillard, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez & Sabine Devieilhe Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2024-25 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Orchestre de Paris Klaus Mäkelä conducts music by Beethoven, Peteris Vasks, and Tchaikovsky. Lisa Batiashvili is the soloist. Performance Date: Sept. 11, 2024 Stanislav Kochanovsky conducts a program of music by Tchaikovsky, Ravel, and Alexandre Tcherepnine. Golda Schultz stars. Performance Date: Oct. 9, {…}

News

Sonya Yoncheva, Adriana González, Iestyn Davies Headline Château de Versailles Spectacles Royal Opera House 2022-23 Season

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The Château de Versailles Spectacles Royal Opera House has unveiled its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. The vocal portion of the season kicks off with a performance of Berlioz’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Virginie Verrez, Andrew Staples, and Edwin Crossley-Mercer. Daniel Harding conducts the Choeur de Radio France and {…}

Business, News

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras Announces Recording Partnership with Harmonia Mundi

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The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras (MCO) and Harmonia Mundi have announced a new long-term recording partnership, launching with three releases led by conductors Pablo Heras-Casado, Jakob Lehmann and Christophe Rousset. The partnership launches in October 2026 with Rousset conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Händel’s “Messiah,” recorded during a European tour last year. The release features soprano {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra de Paris 2025-26 Review: Ercole Amante

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(Credit: Bernd Uhlig / OnP) The production of “Ercole amante” at the Paris Opera represents both an artistic and a musicological event. The opera was composed in 1707 by Antonia Bembo, never performed during her lifetime and long presumed lost until it resurfaced in 1937 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Its rediscovery eventually led to a concert performance in {…}