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Kathryn Lewek, Meryl Dominguez, Rachael Wilson, Brenton Ryan & Cory McGee Headline World Premiere of ‘Music for New Bodies’

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DACAMERA and The Shepherd School of Music have announced the cast for its world premiere performance of Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars’ “Music for New Bodies.” The showcase, scheduled for April 20, 2024 at The Shepherd School of Music’s Brockman Hall for Opera, will feature Kathryn Lewek, Meryl Dominguez, Rachael Wilson, Brenton Ryan, and Cory McGee. Aucoin conducts while Sellars {…}
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Isabel Signoret Joins Promethean Artists for Management

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Mezzo Soprano Isabel Signoret has joined the roster of Promethean Artists for worldwide general management. Signoret holds the distinguished position of Artist in Residence at the Wiener Staatsoper, where she has enjoyed a collaboration with the company since 2020. With over 150 performances at the Wiener Staatsoper since joining the company as a studio member in 2022, she has performed {…}
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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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DACAMERA to Present Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Monochromatic Light (Afterlight)’

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DACAMERA will present “Monochromatic Light (Afterlight)” on March 28, 2025 as part of the Big Ears Festival. The showcase will feature bass-baritone Davóne Tines alongside the St. John’s Cathedral Choir, violist Kim Kashkashian, percussionist Steven Schick, and pianist/celesta player Sarah Rothenberg. Tyshawn Sorey will conduct the eponymous work, which he composed and was co-commissioned by DACAMERA. Sorey’s 70-minute work was {…}
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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}
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The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Photo credit: Raftermen “Toi toi toi, y’all,” intones the attractive, Southern-inflected t-shirt at The Atlanta Opera’s pop-up gift shop. An apt tagline for a company having outgrown regional status, still honoring its roots in this de facto capital of the American South. Like Atlanta—now the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the United States, having recently edged past Philadelphia and {…}
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Ailyn Perez, Russell Thomas, Joshua Guerrero & Isabel Lenoard Lead Houston Grand Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Verdi’s “Il Trovatore“ starring Michael Spyres, Ailyn Perez, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Lucas Meachem, and Morris Robinson. Patrick Summers conducts the production by Stephen Wadsworth. Performance Dates: Oct. 18-Nov. 3, 2024 Isabel Leonard leads Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” with Jack Swanson, Alessandro Corbelli, Iurii Samoilov, and Cory McGee. Lorenzo Passerini {…}
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New Orleans Opera to Showcase Major Premiere of ‘Blue’

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(photo by Karli Cadel) New Orleans Opera Association is set to present the Southern premiere of “Blue” on Nov. 10 and 12, 2023. The opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson was voted “Best New Opera” in 2020 by the Music Critics Association of North America. This production will star Krysty Swann, Cory McGee, Jonathan Pierce Rhodes, Gordon Hawkins, Charbrelle {…}

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