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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Elena Sancho Pereg, Xavier Sabata & Manel Esteve Headline ‘Carmina Burana’ at Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España

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(Credit: Studioline Photography / Xavier Sabata official website / Ascolta Artists official website) The Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España has announced that it will perform a version of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” for two pianos and the percussion on Feb. 12-14, 2021. The showcase will be presented by the Coro Nacional, and the percussion section of the Orquesta Nacional {…}

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Teatro de la Maestranza Cancels November Performances

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The Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain has canceled its November performances. La Maestranza made the decision as a result of the new health measures in Andalucía that include a curfew, which will inhibit performances from beginning at 8 p.m. The theater will reschedule the November performances and will continue to sell tickets for performances opening on Dec. 1. {…}

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Bilbao Opera Cancels Second Performance of ‘Il Turco in Italia’

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The Bilbao Opera has canceled its performance of “Il Turco in Italia” scheduled for Oct. 26. The company announced that due to the new curfew imposed by the Spanish government, the performance will not be able to take place. The performance was set to begin at 8 p.m. and end after 11 p.m., which is the time the curfew is {…}

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ABAO Bilbao Ópera Adds New Performances to ‘Il Turco in Italia’

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ABAO Bilbao Ópera has announced that it has added more performances to its production of Rossini’s “Il Turco in Italia” due to new government regulations. New government restrictions announced on Oct. 17, 2020, and pending publication of the order stated that theaters could only present operas with a maximum seating capacity of 400 audience members. This reduction from a previous {…}

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Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicante Announces 2025-26 Season

ABAO Bilbao 2024-25 Review: La Favorite

ABAO Bilbao Opera 2024-25 Review: Tristan und Isolde

Bilbao Opera to Present Rossini Double Bill

ABAO Bilbao Opera Limits Seating Capacity & Adds One Performance of ‘La Clemenza di Tito’

Elena Sancho Pereg, Xavier Sabata & Manel Esteve Headline ‘Carmina Burana’ at Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España

Teatro de la Maestranza Cancels November Performances

Bilbao Opera Cancels Second Performance of ‘Il Turco in Italia’

ABAO Bilbao Ópera Adds New Performances to ‘Il Turco in Italia’