Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025-26 Review: Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas

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(Photo: André Krieg) To hear John Blow’s “Venus and Adonis” and Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” in a single evening is to witness a moment of metamorphosis in English music. Antonius Adamske and his forces shaped a journey, tracing how English musical drama moved from Blow’s miniature masque of graceful restraint, to Purcell’s denser, more dramatically various opera, with persuasive {…}

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Ravenna Festival Announces 2025 Season

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The Ravenna Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Summer Season Riccardo Muti conducts selections from Verdi’s Nabucco, Macbeth, and I “I Lombardi alla prima crociata.” Davide Cavalli is the soloist. Performance Dates: June 1 & 2, 2025 The Tallis Scholars under Peter Phillips perform Palestrina and Arvo Pärt. Performance Date: June 1, {…}

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Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

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(Photo credit: Nikolai Schukoff) The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has announced its line up for the 2024 season. This article only features vocal works. Opening the festival, artistic director Andrea De Carlo leads the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in Stradella’s oratorio “San Giovanni Battista.” Soloist are sopranos Silvia Frigato and Dorota Szczepańska, countertenor Danilo Pastore, tenor Roberto Manuel Zangari, and bass {…}

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Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition Announces Competitors

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Wigmore has announced the selected singers and pianists for the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition. The competitors are set to represent a number of nations including the U.K., New Zealand, the U.S, France, Spain, Romania, Austria, Korea, and Germany among others. Of the announced competitors only four singers were not announced with a pianist. The Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera {…}

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Elbphilharmonie Hamburg 2025-26 Review: Venus & Adonis / Dido & Aeneas

Ravenna Festival Announces 2025 Season

Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition Announces Competitors