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Juan Diego Flórez Headlines San Sebastián Musical Fortnight 2026

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(Photo credit: Chicago Symphony Orchestra) The San Sebastián Musical Fortnight announces its 2026 lineup. This article only features classical vocal concerts.  Tenor Juan Diego Flórez and pianist Vincenzo Scalera give the opening concert. Performance Date: August 2, 2026 Juanjo Mena conducts the Easo Abesbatza and Euskadiko Orkestra perform a selection of works from Bilbao composers. Performance Date: August 12, 2026 {…}

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Francesco Meli, Marina Rebeka, Angel Blue, Nicole Car, Carolina López Moreno, Klaus Florian Vogt & Ryan Speedo Green Lead Semperoper Dresden’s 2026-27 Season

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres The opera premieres begin with Verdi’s “Un ballo in maschera,” a new production by Angela Denoke in her Semperoper directorial debut, conducted by Daniele Gatti and Stefano Tanzanian. Francesco Meli, Giorgio Berrugi, Nicole Car, Yulia Matochkina, Rosalia Cid, George Petean, and Lodovico Filippo Ravizza. Performance Dates: Oct. 4, 2026-May 21, 2027 {…}

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Theater Magdeburg Announces 2025-26 Season

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The Theater Magdeburg has announced its 2025-26 season. Premiere  Erik Nielsen conducts Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” with Adele Thomas directing. Premiere Date: Sept. 14, 2025 “Clivia” by Nico Dostal will be conducted by Kai Tietje and directed by Julien Chavaz. Premiere Date: Nov. 9, 2025 Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will be led by Fergus Sheil and directed by Jean-François Sivadier. Premiere {…}

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Elza van den Heever, Joseph Calleja, Nicholas Brownlee, Corinne Winters, Allan Clayton & Anna Princeva Lead Oper Frankfurt’s 2025-26 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will star Teona Todua, Karolina Bengtsson, Kelsey Lauritano, Taehan Kim, Sakhiwe Mkosana, Magnus Dietrich, Andrew Kim, Bianca Tognocchi, Elizabeth Reiter, Liviu Holender, and Sebastian Geyer. Thomas Guggeis conducts the production by Mariame Clément. Performance Dates: Sept. 21, 2025-Jan. 17, 2026 Alexander Tsymbalyuk leads Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” with Karolina {…}

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Ailyn Pérez, Adela Zaharia, Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Camilla Nylund Headline Semperoper Dresden’s 2025-26 Season

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Semperoper Dresden has unveiled its 2025-26 season. New Productions It opens with Verdi’s “Falstaff,” conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Damiano Michieletto with a cast starring Nicola Alaimo, Lodovico Ravizza, Yijie Shi, Eleonora Buratto, Rosalia Cid, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, and Nicole Chirka, among others. Performance Dates: Oct. 5 – Oct. 24, 2025 Next up is Hans Abrahamsen’s “The Snow Queen.” {…}

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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 Announces Cast Change for ‘Tristan und Isolde’

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Bilbao Opera has announced a cast change for its opening “Tristan und Isolde” performance on Jan. 18, 2025. The company said that Rachel Nicholls will sing the role of Isolde replacing the originally scheduled Oksana Dyka. Nicholls has performed Isolde to great success at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the {…}

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Gwyn Hughes Jones & Oksana Dyka Lead Bilbao Opera’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’

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The Bilbao Opera is set to present Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” for the third time in the company’s history. The performances come 13 years after the company last performed the famed work and will be shown on Jan. 18, 21, 24, and 27 at the Euskalduna Bilbao. The opera will star Gwyn Hughes Jones and Oksana Dyka in the title {…}

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Teatro Colón Unveils 2025 Season

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The Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires has unveiled its 2025 season. Opera First up is Verdi’s “Aida” in a production by Roberto Oswald. Stefano Ranzani conducts part of the run. Performance Dates: March 2025 Next up is “Il Trittico” in a production from the Teatro Comunale di Bologna by Beatricce Venezi. Pier Francesco Maestrini conducts. Performance Dates: May 2025 “Billy Budd” gets {…}