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Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Artistic Director Arvo Volmer on His Role at The Estonian National Opera

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(Photo: Rasmus Jurkatam) From the beginning, Arvo Volmer’s career has been closely tied with the Estonian National Opera, where he was appointed to his first professional post as its assistant conductor in 1985 and where he conducted his first opera, Händel’s “Alcina.” Since then, he has gone on to establish a successful international career, with a string of appointments, including {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Estonian National Opera 2024-25 Review: Carmen

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(Photo: Siim Vahur) It would be unrealistic to expect a new production of Bizet’s masterpiece to reveal anything that has not already been presented many times before. The best one can reasonably hope for would be a tweak in emphasis that draws attention to elements that are sometimes underplayed. Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau took exactly this approach for his production for Estonian {…}

News

José Cura, Olga Mykytenko & Pavlo Hunka Lead Estonian National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The Estonian National Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring an array of productions and international stars. The season opens with the X Old Tallinn Gala conducted by Arvo Volmer and starring Olga Mykytenko, Ain Anger, and Raimonds Bramanis. Performance Date: August 27, 2022 Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” is set to star Perrine Madeouf and Nico Darmanin in the September performances. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}

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Adelaide Festival Announces Centerpiece Opera

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Australia’s Adelaide Festival has announced that Barrie Kosky’s production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockerel” will be the centerpiece of the 2022 program. The production, which will open in March 2022, will feature Venera Gimadieva, Vasily Efimov, Andrei Popov, Samuel Dundas, Pavlo Hunka, and Mischa Shelomianski. The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will be led by former Music Director, Arvo Volmer. The {…}

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Estonian National Opera Announces 2021-22 Season

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The Estonian National Opera has announced its 2021-22 season. Lauri Sirp conducts “The Merry Widow” by Lehar in a production by André Heller-Lopes. Performance Dates: August 19, 2021-June 16, 2022 “Idomeneo“ will be performed in a concert performance Risto Joost conducting. Performance Dates: August 27 & 29, 2021 Arvo Volmer, Vello Pähn, and Kaspar Mänd will conduct a revival of {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

OPER.A.20.21. 2019 Review: La Wally

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(Photo: Alessia Santambrogio) Alfredo Catalani died prematurely of tuberculosis, at the age of 39, having completed five operas. Today he is really only remembered for one of them, namely “La Wally” and even this receives only an occasional performance, and is known primarily for its famous aria “Ebben.. ne andrò lontana” and the fact one of its main characters, Hagenbach, {…}