Santa Fe Opera 2017 Review – Alcina: Lead Singers & Director David Alden Lead Satisfying Performance

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You can tell who the real Handel lovers are by those who remain for the entirety of a three hour and 40-minute performance. However, at Santa Fe Opera’s production of “Alcina” on August 2, the house remained mostly full all the way to the curtain call. When it comes to Baroque performed in the 21st century, it helps to rely on {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024 Review: Carmen

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(Photo: © Richard Hubert Smith/Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024) The picnic hampers are packed, dinner jackets dry-cleaned, cufflinks wrangled, and drizzle forecast: the British country house opera season is back. It opens with a new production of Georges Bizet’s box-office stalwart “Carmen” from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, directed by Diane Paulus and conducted by Glyndebourne Music Director Robin Ticciati. This latest version, {…}

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Sir Bryn Terfel, Julia Sitkovetsky, Susan Bullock Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2024 Festival Season

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Grange Park Opera has unveiled its programming for 2024. First up is a double bill of “Aleko” and “Gianni Schicchi,” both headlined by Sir Bryn Terfel. He is joined in the Rachmaninoff opera with Ailish Tynan, Luis Gomes, Robert Winslade Anderson, and Sara Fulgoni. In “Schicchi” other cast members include Pasquale Orchard, Luis Gomes, and Sara Fulgoni, among others. Gianluca {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces New Cast Change for ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its performance of “Un Ballo in Maschera” on Nov 11, 2023. The company said that the role of Oscar will be sung by Marielle Murphy, making her Met debut. Murphy will replace Liv Redpath. Murphy is a soprano who has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Theater Aachen, Oper Leipzig, Opera Bern, {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2023 Review: Lohengrin

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Richard Wagner fell in love with the story of Lohengrin. How could he not? A handsome knight, with a golden disposition of purity, nobility and generosity. The son of Parsifal. The leader of the Grail. Destined to rescue, save and uplift all who needed rescuing and salvation. With soaring and beauteous romantic melodies, rich choral support, dazzling duets between glorious {…}

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Charles Castronovo Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since 2015. The opera will be presented in David Alden with Italian maestro Carlo Rizzi leading the orchestra. The cast will include Charles Castronovo, Angela Meade, Quinn Kelsey, Liv Redpath, and Olesya Petrova. Alden’s production was first performed at the {…}

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English National Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’

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The English National Opera has announced a cast change for its performance of “Peter Grimes” on Oct. 6, 2023. The company said, “Unfortunately, Gwyn Hughes Jones has not yet fully recovered and is unable to perform in ‘Peter Grimes’ tonight. Therefore the role of Peter Grimes will be performed by John Findon and the role of Bob Boles by Adam {…}

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English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo: ENO’s Peter Grimes 2023 © Tom Bowles) David Alden’s “Peter Grimes” begins with the curtain up. Upstage the people of the Borough mill about restlessly, occasionally breaking into shouts of anger and impatience. Alden’s 2009 production, on its second revival, breaks with any wistful or bucolic notions about the seaside community of the Borough, who drive the equally unrelenting {…}

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Simon O’Neill Headlines San Francisco Opera’s ‘Lohengrin’

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The San Francisco Opera is set to present Wagner’s “Lohengrin” in director David Alden’s production. The opera will be presented from Oct. 15 to Nov. 1 and will be conducted by Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts. The cast will include tenor Simon O’Neill, soprano Julie Adams, baritone Brian Mulligan, bass Kristinn Sigmundsson, and, mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi. The {…}

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Santa Fe Opera 2017 Review – Alcina: Lead Singers & Director David Alden Lead Satisfying Performance

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024 Review: Carmen

Sir Bryn Terfel, Julia Sitkovetsky, Susan Bullock Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2024 Festival Season

Metropolitan Opera Announces New Cast Change for ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

San Francisco Opera 2023 Review: Lohengrin

Charles Castronovo Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

English National Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Peter Grimes’

English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

Simon O’Neill Headlines San Francisco Opera’s ‘Lohengrin’