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Barbara Hannigan’s Iceland Symphony Orchestra Unveils 2026-27 Season

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Iceland Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2026-27 season under Chief Conductor Barbara Hannigan. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Sopranos Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir and Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, tenor Elmar Gilbertsson, and Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson star in “Our Classics,” a program featuring works by Mozart, Puccini, Bach, Sibelius, Páll Ísólfsson, and Tchaikovsky. The Reykjavík Male Choir also performs. Daníel Bjarnason conducts. {…}

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Michael Spyres, Huw Montague Rendall, Freddie Ballentine, Elsa Dreisig, Lauranne Oliva, Stéphane Degout, & Julie Roset Lead Opéra national du Rhin’s 2026-27 Season

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The Opéra national du Rhin has announced its 2026-27 season. Marko Letonja and Michael Spyres team up with Brigitta Listra and the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg for an evening of music by Wagner, Massenet, Schreker, Bizet, Korngold, and Richard Strauss. Performance Date: Sept. 14 & 15, 2026 Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform in recital.  Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2026 {…}

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Boston Baroque Announces 2026-27 Season

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The Boston Baroque has announced its 2026-27 season. Haydn’s The Creation” will be performed. Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2026 Händel’s “Messiah” will be performed for the holiday season and conducted by Christoph Koncz. Performance Date: Dec. 12 & 13, 2026 Marc Minkowski will lead a a Beethoven-focused New Year’s Celebration concert. Performance Date: TBD Marc Minkowski will lead Pergolesi’s “Stabat {…}

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Francesco Meli, Marina Rebeka, Angel Blue, Nicole Car, Carolina López Moreno, Klaus Florian Vogt & Ryan Speedo Green Lead Semperoper Dresden’s 2026-27 Season

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres The opera premieres begin with Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera,” a new production by Angela Denoke in her Semperoper directorial debut, conducted by Daniele Gatti and Stefano Tanzanian. Francesco Meli, Giorgio Berrugi, Nicole Car, Yulia Matochkina, Rosalia Cid, George Petean, and Lodovico Filippo Ravizza. Performance Dates: Oct. 4, 2026-May 21, 2027 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2025-26 Review: Hänsel und Gretel

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(Photo: Klara Beck) This Christmas season, the Strasbourg Opera is staging Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera “Hänsel und Gretel.” Based on the eponymous fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, which premiered in Weimar on December 23 in 1893, it is the ultimate Christmas opera. Exciting Production Details The production, featured December 7 to 17, gets off to a wonderful start. It is {…}

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Christina Landshamer, Marianne Crebassa, Julia Lezhneva, Katharina Konradi & Bo Skovhus Lead Deutsche Radio Philharmonie’s 2025-26 Season

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The Deutsche Radio Philharmonie has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Michael Schønwandt and Christina Landshamer perform music by Mahler, Canteloube, and Chaminade. Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2025 Michael Schønwandt and Christina Landshamer perform music by Mahler, Canteloube, and Chaminade. Performance Dates: Sept. 25 & 27, 2025 Josep Pons and Marianne Crebassa team up for {…}

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Adriana Gonzalez, Marina Viotti, Pene Pati, John Brancy, Huw Montague Rendall & Sabine Devieilhe Lead Opéra national du Rhin’s 2025-26 Season

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The Opéra national du Rhin has announced its 2025-26 season. Mélissa Petit, Julia Lezhneva, Carlo Vistoli, and Krystian Adam star in Handel’s “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno.” Thibault Noally conducts.  Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2025 Issachah Savage and Errin Duane Brooks star in Verdi’s “Otello” alongside Adriana Gonzalez and Daniel Miroslaw. Speranza Scappucci conducts the production by Ted {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Michael Volle, Ludovic Tézier, Pretty Yende, Rolando Villazón, Federica Lombardi, Nicole Car, Freddie De Tommaso & Juan Diego Flórez Headline Wiener Staatsoper’s 2025-26 Season

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the operas and recitals for the new season. Premieres  Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” will get a new production by Dirk Schmeding. The cast will be headed by Franz Xaver Schlecht, Margaret Plummer, Slávka Zámečníková, Ivo Stanchev, Monika Bohinec, Pavol Breslik, Michael Laurenz, Peter Kellner, Matthäus Schmidlechner, Ilia Staple, and Alex Ilvakhin. Tomáš Hanus conducts. A second cast will {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2024-25 Review: La Traviata

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(Photo credit: Klara Beck) After its premiere in Dijon, in collaboration with the Orchestre National du Rhin, Verdi’s “La Traviata” arrives in Strasbourg. If the Burgundian production was disappointing, in terms of staging, performers and conducting, the Alsatian revival is far more successful. Admittedly, many of the elements of German director Amélie Niermeyer‘s Dijon production remain, such as the parties {…}