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John Brancy, Leonardo Sánchez, Jasmine Habersham, Christine Rice & Wendy Bryn Harmer Lead Opera North’s 2026-27 Season

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Opera North has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” featuring John Brancy, Verity Wingate, Caspar Singh, Jingwen Cai, Hannah Mason, Claire Pascoe, and Joshua Bloom. Garry Walker conducts the production by Patrick Nolan. Performance Dates: Oct. 9–Nov. 21, 2026 Leonardo Sánchez, Blake Denson and Jasmine Habersham lead Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” The cast also includes Callum Thorpe and Sir Willard {…}
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Niamh O’Sullivan, Emma Bell, Michael Mayes, Christine Rice & Nardus Williams Lead English National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with “Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey,” which will be directed by ENO’s Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon and will star international opera soloists including Golda Schultz, Nardus Williams, Bethany Horak-Hallet, Ailish Tynan, Rainelle Krause, and Filipe Manu. Cleila Cafiero conducts the performance. The concert will be hosted by TV {…}
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Louise Alder, Gerald Finley, Carolina López Moreno, Erin Morley, Golda Schultz & Aigul Akhmetshina Lead BBC Proms’ 2025 Season

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2025 season. Here is a list of the vocal performances. Sakari Oramo conducts the First Night of the Proms with soloists Lisa Batiashvili, Caspar Singh, and Gerald Finley. The program includes music by Arthur Bliss, Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Sibelius, Errollyn Wallen, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance Date: July 18, 2025 Tenor Allan Clayton gives {…}
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86th Quincena Musical de San Sebastián to Feature Xabier Anduaga, Federica Lombardi, Miren Urbieta-Vega, Christian Gerhaher

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The 86th Quincena Musical de San Sebastián has unveiled its upcoming season. Here is a breakdown of upcoming vocal performances. “Rossini’s Stabat Mater” will feature the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, conducted by Mark Elder, will be joined by the Orfeón Donostiarra, conducted by José Antonio Sáinz Alfaro. Soloists include soprano Federica Lombardi, tenor Xabier Anduaga, and bass Will Thomas. {…}
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Simon Keenlyside, Hye-Youn Lee, David Stout, Hanif Khan Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2025 Season

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Grange Park Opera has announced its 2025 summer slate. First up is “Simon Boccanegra” starring Sir Simon Keenlyside, Elin Pritchard, Otar Jorjikia, and James Creswell. Gianluca Marciano and Mark Shanahan conduct a production by David Pountney; Robin Tebbutt is the revival director. Per the company’s official website, Keenlyside’s performances are sponsored by Ruth Markland and “Come in quest’ora bruna” is {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazon, Asmik Grigorian, Ludovic Tézier, Jonathan Tetelman, Serena Sáenz & Sondra Radvanovsky Lead Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2025-26 Season

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres Maurizio Benini conducts Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a new production by Barbara Wysocka. Bekhzod Davronov, Igor Golovatenko, Ludovic Tézier, Serena Sáenz, Nadine Sierra, Riccardo Fassi, and Elmina Hasan star. Performance Dates: March 7-24, 2026 & July 28 & 31, 2026 Lotte de Beer directs a new production of Gounod’s “Faust” with Jonathan {…}
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Malmö Opera to Stream ‘Così fan tutte’

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(Photo: Erik Berg) Malmö Opera is set to live stream Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” on Dec. 8, 2024 on its website. The production opens on Nov. 30 and stars Matilda Sterby, Annie Fredriksson, David Risberg, Caspar Singh, Elinor Fryklund, and Daniel Giulianini headline the third Da Ponte-Mozart collaboration. Magnus Fryklund conducts a production directed by Katrine Wiedemann. For Wiedemann’s production, {…}
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Camilla Wehmeyer Joins Intermusica & Brings 11 Singers to The Company

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(Credit: Intermusica) Intermusica has welcomed Camilla Wehmeyer to its Vocal & Opera team as Associate Director. She will begin in her new position on Sept. 23, 2024. Wehmeyer is an experienced manager, having previously held positions at Askonas Holt and Hazard Chase. Wehmeyer began her own management company after the pandemic, Camilla Wehmeyer Management (CWM), which over the past four {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2024 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Photo credit: Glyndebourne’s own official trailer highlights its festival as “No Ordinary Opera”. Certainly, the staging for “Tristan und Isolde” is far from ordinary, courtesy of a visually entrancing setting by Ronald Aeschlimann. The performers are basically encased in an elliptical vortex-type form of concentric circles, which I interpreted to be a depiction of some portal-like presence intended to illustrate {…}

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