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Essen Philharmonic Announces 2026-27 Season

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The Essen Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. The Christmas concert will feature singing along with soloists and children’s and youth choirs of the Aalto Theatre and the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra. Performance Dates: Dec. 5, 2026- two concerts Ricardo Minasi conducts Bach’s “Weihnachtsoratorium” with Natalia Labourdette, Lilian de Sousa, Mykhailo Kushlyk, and Baurzhan Anderzhanov. Performance {…}
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Dresden Philharmonic Announces 2026-27 Season Featuring Thomas Hampson, Sunnyboy Dladla, Christian Gerhaher & Julia Kleiter

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The Dresden Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann conducts Mendelssohn with soloists Julia Kleiter, Marie Henriette Reinhold, and Mauro Peter. Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2026 Sir Donald Runnicles conducts Orff’s “Carmina Burana” with Lilit Davtyan, Sunnyboy Dladla, and Thomas Lehman. Performance Dates: Sept. 12 & 13, 2026 The orchestra is set {…}
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Sophie Junker Stars in International Handel Festival Göttingen 2026

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(Photo credit: Padraig Grant) The International Handel Festival Göttingen announces its 2026 lineup. Sophie Junker takes on the title role in Händel’s “Deidamia.” The Handel specialist is joined by Nicolò Balducci, Bruno de Sá, Sarah Gilford, Rory Musgrave, and Fenice Petros. The Göttingen University Chamber Choir is led by Antonius Adamske. George Petrou conducts the Göttingen Festival Orchestra. Giorgina Germanou and Ernst {…}
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Catalina Bertucci, Emanuela Galli, Andreas Scholl Star in Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival 2026

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The lineup for the 2026 Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival is announced. This article only features vocal concerts.  Ensemble Correspondances presents “Apollo, God of Light” with direction from Sébastien Daucé. The concert features opera scenes from Cavallis’ “Ercole amante,” Campras’ “L’Europe galante,” and Rameaus’ “Anacréon” Performance Date: June 6, 2026 The documentary on the Baroque opera production “Pastorelle en musique” from {…}
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HamburgMusik 2025 Review: Pastorale

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(Photo: Daniel Dittus) What new ideas can a Christmas concert possibly still have up its sleeve? “Pastorale,” conceived and led by Dorothee Oberlinger with Ensemble 1700, offered a compelling answer by returning Christmas music to its human roots. Rather than polishing familiar repertory into decorative ritual, the concert reframed it—through sound, story, and historical memory—into a richly textured, deeply humane {…}
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CD Review: Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci’s ‘Adriano in Siria’

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Carl Heinrich Graun’s “Adriano in Siria”—set to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio—is a compelling example of mid-18th-century opera seria, a genre that once dominated the European stage. First performed in Berlin in 1746, Graun’s setting was one of more than seventy opera settings of Metastasio’s libretto between 1732 and 1828, attesting to its immense popularity. This new live recording from {…}
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Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci 2025 Review: Orlando generoso

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(Photo: Stefan Gloede) The three-act opera “Orlando generoso” by Agostino Steffani, conducted by Dorothee Oberlinger and performed by Ensemble 1700 with an outstanding cast, shone as one of the highlights of the 2025 Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci. Premiered in 1691 in Hanover, the opera adapts a segment of Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso.” It is set in a fantasy version of China, {…}
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Here are the Vocal / Opera Performances on Offer at Musikfestpiele Potsdam Sanssouci’s 2025 Season

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(Photo Credit: Capucine de Chocqueuse) The Musikfestpiele Potsdam is set to open a production of “Orlando Generoso” as well as several other vocal offerings at its 2025 edition. Soprano Jehann Amzal, mezzo-soprano Emilie Rnard, tenor and conductor Reinourd van Mechelen, and bass-baritone Damien Pass headline a Telemann and Rameau program alongside A Nocte Temporis. Performance Dates: June 21, 2025 “Orlando Generoso,” {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Jakub Józef Orliński, Asmik Grigorian, Elīna Garanča, Pretty Yende, Kate Lindsey, Marina Rebka, Julian Prégardien & Ludovic Tézier Lead Wiener Konzertahus’ 2025-26 Season

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The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. The Constellation Choir & Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner perform Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2025 Fabio Luisi conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in Franz Schmidt’s “Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln.” Soloists incude Maximilian Schmitt, David Steffens, Giulia {…}

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