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Elena Villalón, Asmik Grigorian, Nicholas Brownlee, Tamara Wilson & Francesco Demuro Lead Oper Frankfurt’s 2024-25 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2024-25 season. New Productions The season opens with “Der Prinz von Homburg.” Takeshi Moriuchi conducts and Jens Daniel Herzog directs the work by Henze. It stars Domen Krizaj, Yves Saelens, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Magnus Dietrich, Annette Schönmüller, and Iain MacNeil. Performance Dates: Sept. 22 – Nov. 2, 2024 Nadja Loschky directs “Lulu” and Thomas Guggeis conducts. {…}

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Eleonora Buratto, Javier Camarena & Francesco Meli Lead Palau de les Arts’ 2023-24 Season

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Valencia’s Palau de les Arts’ 2023-24 season featuring opera, recitals, concerts, and zarzuela. Opera Dima Orsho and Carla Nahadi Babelegoto star in “Women at Point Zero.” Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2023 James Gaffigan conducts Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” in Richard Jones’ production. The cast includes Arsen Soghomonyan, Doris Soffel, Ekaterina Guseva, Elena Maximova, Roman Burdenko, and Nikolay Zemlianskikh. Performance {…}

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Luca Salsi, Francesco Meli & Alex Esposito to Present Recitals at Teatro la Fenice

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The Teatro la Fenice is set to present two recitals with some of the world’s greatest male voices in opera. On July 22, Alex Esposito will perform a program with arias from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and “Le Nozze di Figaro,” Verdi’s “Macbeth,” “Simon Boccanegra,” and “Don Carlo,” Gounod’s “Faust,” Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust,” Boito’s Mefistofele,” and Offenbach’s “Les Contes {…}

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Francesco Meli & Luca Salsi Headline Palazzo Farnese Concert

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The Fonadazione Teatri di Piacenza has announced a Verdi Gala. The concert, which marks the first in the Emilia Romagna region in Italy since the lockdown, will be held on July 4 outside of the Palazzo Farnese. The performance will showcase Francesco Meli and Luca Salsi accompanied by Davide Cavalli in music from Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” “La Forza del Destino,” {…}

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Itinéraire Baroque Announces Four-Day Festival in Honor of Ton Koopman

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Itinéraire Baroque is set to honor the 80th birthday of Artistic Director Ton Koopman this August. The four-day festival will feature a wide range of concerts, including numerous vocal performances. That will be the focus of this article. First up is Ensemble Les Surprises will present works by Giovanni Legrenzi, Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Antonio Rigatti, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi, Antonio {…}

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CD Review: Signum Classics’ ‘Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge’

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American Randall Scotting has made a name for himself both as an authority on Italian Baroque music and as one of its most exquisitely timbered interpreters. The countertenor has in the past year alone released two albums, “The Crown” and “Lovesick,” a 17th century anthology about loss and heartbreak. With “Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge” he joins forces with {…}

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WDR 3 Culture Radio Unveils Days of Old Music Herne 2023 Schedule

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Ensemble Masques/ credit:David Samyn WDR 3 Cultural Radio has released its Days of Old Music Herne 2023 lineup featuring vocal music by Francesco Cavalli, Antonia Bembo, Guillaume Dufay, and Antonio Caldara. The theme for 2023 focuses on fashion, drawing musicians from various European locations to Herne once again. The majority of these ensembles will make their debut at the festival. {…}

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New England Conservatory Announces Fall Programming

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The New England Conservatory has announced its fall programming. Listed here are the opera events which are free and open to the public. Mezzo-soprano Rebecca Printz solos in Brett Dean’s “I Starred Last Night, I Shone” in “NEC & Yellow Barn Present: A Concert for Violist Roger Tapping (1960-2022).” Performance Date: September 19, 2023 “Liederabend LXVII” features songs in a {…}