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Gerard Schneider, Anna Gabler & Francisco Brito Highlight Tiroler Festspiele’s Winter Season

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The Tiroler Festspiele Erl has announced a winter festival between Dec. 26 and Jan. 6. For this article, we will only focus on the Austrian Festival’s operatic and vocal performances. The festival will open with Mascagni’s “L’Amico Fritz” with starring Gerard Schneider, Mojca Bitenc, Nina Tarandek,  Domen Križaj, Reilly Nelson, Carlos Andrés Cárdenas, and Giovanni Battista Parodi. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts {…}

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Gerard Schneider, Brenda Rae & Nicholas Brownlee Highlight Oper Frankfurt’s 2020-21 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2020-21 season. The German house will present 11 new productions and a number of revivals and recitals. New Productions  Monika Buczkowska, Judita Nagyová, Peter Marsh, Simon Neil, and Alfred Reiter star in Ligeti’s “La Grand Macabre.” Sebastian Weigle conducts a production by Vasily Barkhatov. Performance Dates: Sept. 13-Oct. 17, 2020 Katharina Thoma will direct Offenbach’s {…}

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Tenor Gerard Schneider Raises Funds At Oper Frankfurt to Support Australia Fire Victims

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) Opera lovers in Frankfurt were excited about the opening night of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” at the Oper Frankfurt on January 24, 2020. Christopher Maltman was in the title role, and joined Bianca Tognocchi as Gilda with Pier Giorgio Morandi conducting. The cast also included bass Barnaby Rea and mezzo-soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, among others. Also making his debut {…}

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Vuvu Mpofu & Tatjana Schneider Headline Theater St. Gallen’s ‘La Traviata’

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(Credit: Gerard Collett) Theater St. Gallen is set to showcase Verdi’s “La Traviata” starting on March 19, 2022. The showcase, which will be presented in the UMIBAU venue, will be directed by Nina Russi who has no intention of setting the opera in its original 19th-century milieu. Instead, she will present the opera in a newer time period noting in {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series 2018 Review: Schneider, Timpau, and Ramirez Bare All Before the Bronx

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As the Metropolitan Opera company’s Summer Recital Series rolls on, the artists and crew took to Williamsbridge Oval Park in the Bronx for an afternoon of arias, duets, and a trio from some of opera’s most cherished composers. Kicking things off was tenor Gerard Schneider, singing “Questa o quella” from Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” This amorous aria made for a spirited opening, {…}

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Opera Australia 2025 Review: Rusalka

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(© Carlita Sari) Of Antonín Dvořák’s ten operas, “Rusalka,” written around the dawn of the twentieth century and only a few years before the composer’s death, became his most successful. That this highly romantic fairytale (or should one say, water nymph tale?) should be the most courageous of Opera Australia’s (OA) offerings for the second half of this year, tells {…}

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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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Opera Australia Unveils 2025 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2025 season. Sydney The season opens with Massenet’s “Cendrillon.” Evan Rogister and Tahu Matheson conduct. Laurent Pelly directs a cast starring Emily Edmonds, Margaret Plummer, Sian Sharp, and Emma Matthews. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2024 – March 28, 2025 “The Barber of Seville,” in a production by Elijah Moshinsky, stars Samuel Dale Johnson, Samuel Dundas, {…}

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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. {…}