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ABAO Bilbao Opera 2025-26 Review: Werther

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ABAO-Bilbao opened 2026 with a production a Massenet’s masterpiece, “Werther,” with the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo stepping in after the sudden cancelation of the tenor cast for this role. The stage director Rosetta Cucchi presented a metaphorical production with showed hyperrealistic sets: like the living room at the first act or the library on the second act with symbolic elements {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Real de Madrid 2025-26 Review: Carmen

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(Photo: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real farewells 2025 and welcomes 2026 with 16 performances of Bizet’s popular masterpiece, “Carmen.” This revival is a new production directed by the talented stage director Damiano Michieletto, which opened in London two seasons ago and which will be seen at La Scala. Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto proved once more why he is {…}
News, Season Announcement

Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante Announces 2025-26 Season

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The Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. Robert Mameli joins Ruben Jais and Adda-Simfonica Alicante for a program of Haydn and Mozart. Performance Date: Dec. 23, 2025 The Slovak Philharmonic will be joined by Coro Amici Musicae with Marko Mimica and Alexandra Conunova for music by Dvořák, Mussorgsky, Khachaturian, and {…}
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ABAO Bilbao 2024-25 Review: La Favorite

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Back in 2022, the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo featured a production of Donizetti’s “La Favorite” using a new critical French edition and with no cuts (including the whole ballet). For that occasion Ricardo Frizza was the conductor. Now, a few years later, ABAO Bilbao is bringing back that same Bergamo production, in coproduction with Opéra National de Bordeaux, as well {…}
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ABAO Bilbao Opera 2024-25 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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 (Photo: ©E. Moreno Esquibel) The opera of Bilbao began the year 2025 with Wagner’s masterpiece “Tristan und Isolde,” in a new production recently seen at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, with an international cast of singers in the leading roles and a creative Spanish team signing the production. The production, by stage director and set designer Allex Aguilera, was {…}
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Bilbao Opera to Present Rossini Double Bill

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On April 6, the Bolbaro Opera is set to present Rossini’s “Giovanna d’Arco” and Stabat Mater. The concert, which will be presented at the Teatro Arriaga will feature soloists Angela Meade, Chiara Amarù, Paolo Fanale, and Simón Orfila. Amarù will debut with the company substituting the originally scheduled Marianna Pizzolato. Nicola Luisotti will conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Verum and the {…}
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ABAO Bilbao Opera Limits Seating Capacity & Adds One Performance of ‘La Clemenza di Tito’

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The ABAO Bilbao Opera has announced that it has ceased ticket sales its performances of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.” Per the opera house’s official statement, the Basque Government ordered the venue to limit its seating capacity to a maximum of 800 spectators, within other measures to stem the exponential spread of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. {…}

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