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Bruno da Sa & Christiane Karg Lead IberCamera’s 2025-26 Season

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The IberCamera will celebrate its 42nd anniversary during the 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances of the season. Bruno de Sa will perform selections by Scarlatti, Bonocini, Marcello, Corelli, and Händel. He performs alongside Dorothee Oberlinger and Ensemble 1700. Performance Date: Jan. 26, 2026 The Collegium Vocale Gent, Orquesta, and Coro under Philippe Herreweghe will perform Bach’s “St Matthew Passion. {…}
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Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Sara Banch, Bruno de Sa & Christiane Karg Lead Auditori de Girona’s 2025-26 Season

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Spain’s Auditori de Girona has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. Sara Blanch and Vanessa García Diepa perform Donizetti, Rossini, Bellin, Tosti, De Curtis, and  Mazzucchi e Di Capua. Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2025 Cor Maragall will perform music by Antonio Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, Enric Morera, and Duke Ellington. {…}
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Asmik Grigorian, Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Tetelman, Benjamin Bernheim, Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa & Juan Diego Flórez Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2026 Season

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The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Franck Ollu conducts Pascal Dusapin and Rita de Letteriis’s “Passion” starring Sarah Aristidou, Georg Nigl, and Schola Heidelberg. Performance Date: July 23, 2026 Asmik Grigorian stars as Bizet’s “Carmen” alongside Jonathan Tetelman, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Davide Luciano. Teodor Currentzis conducts the production by Gabriela {…}
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Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Deidamia

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) In 1752, Händel’s final complete composition, his oratorio “Jephtha,” was premiered at London’s Covent Garden Theatre, bringing to an end the composer’s illustrious career. Just over ten years earlier, he had premiered his opera “Deidamia” at London’s Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre, in what proved to be another significant landmark; it was to be the last of his {…}
Season Announcement

Madison Leonard, Matilda Sterby, Cecelia Hall, Zahid Siddiqui Headline Garsington Opera’s 2026 Season

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Garsington Opera has announced its 2026 season. First up is Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The production stars Madison Leonard as Violetta Valéry, Oleksiy Palchykov as Alfredo Germont, and Roland Wood as Giorgio Germont. Douglas Boyd conducts, and Louisa Muller directs. The production is sung in Italian with English supertitles and is a co-production with Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, {…}
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Antonio Poli, Adela Zaharia, Saioa Hernandez, Roberta Mantegna & Gregory Kunde Headline Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2026 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has anounced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the operatic performances. Roberto Abbado conducts Mozart’s “Idomeneo” in a production by Mariano Bauduin. Antonio Poli, Francesca Di Sauro, Mariangela Sicilia, Salome Jicia, and  Leonardo Cortellazzi star.  Performance Dates: Jan. 24-Feb. 1, 2026 Adela Zaharia and Julia Muzychenko star in Verdi’s “La Traviata” with  Liparit {…}
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Bazzini’s ‘Turanda’ Gets Major Revival 150 Years Later

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Following its first and only performance at La Scala 150 years ago, Bazzini’s “Turanda” is getting another showcase. The opera will be presented by Conservatory of Como in collaboration with Casa Ricordi, which has overseen a new critical edition of the score. The performances are set for Oct. 26, 2025 at Teatro Sociale di Como, and Dec. 8, 2025 at {…}
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Bard’s Summerscape Festival 2025 Review: Dalibor

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Many who visit OperaWire regularly have their various interests in what one might call, operatic “rarities”–works that have achieved, to an extent, legendary status despite being seldom staged. As an avid lover of Hector Berlioz’s archetypal romantic career, I devoured both the Barzun and Cairns biographies of the composer more than once. And such a rarity mentioned was Spontini’s “La {…}
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CD Review: Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci’s ‘Adriano in Siria’

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Carl Heinrich Graun’s “Adriano in Siria”—set to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio—is a compelling example of mid-18th-century opera seria, a genre that once dominated the European stage. First performed in Berlin in 1746, Graun’s setting was one of more than seventy opera settings of Metastasio’s libretto between 1732 and 1828, attesting to its immense popularity. This new live recording from {…}

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