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Gustavo Gimeno, Emőke Baráth & Anna Prohaska Lead BCN Classics’ 2025-26 Season

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BCN Classics has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. Emőke Baráth and Carlo Vistoli lead Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” with the Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm. The evening will be held at the Palau de la Musica Catalana. Performance Date: Dec. 1, 2025 Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s {…}
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra Extend Contract of Gustavo Gimeno

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The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced that Gustavo Gimeno’s contract was being extended throughout 2030. The conductor is the 10th music director in the company’s history, kicking off his tenure back in 2020-21. “It is my extreme pleasure to continue to lead this wonderfully refined Orchestra,” said Gimeno in an official press statement. “The special bond that the musicians and {…}
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Conductor Gustavo Gimeno Extends Contract With the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

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(Credit: Marco Borggreve) Gustavo Gimeno, the Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) since 2015, has extended his contract through the end of the 2024/25 season. In a press statement, Stephan Gehmacher, Director-General of the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the OPL, expressed his satisfaction over the extension of the agreement, adding that the orchestra has undergone an impressive development {…}
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Tapestry Opera & Toronto Symphony Orchestra Announce Masterclass for Women & Non-Binary Conductors in Canada

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(Photo credit: Alan Cabral) Tapestry Opera and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra join forces to present a masterclass dedicated to the next generation of women and non-binary conductors and music directors in Canada. Participants include Women in Musical Leadership (WML) fellows Monica Chen, Eve Legault, and Serena Reuten (associate). The conductors will work with Maestro Gustavo Gimeno in a masterclass to {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Real 2025-26 Review: The Bartered Bride

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(Credit: Javier de Real) Some operas carry the weight of national myth—and that weight can obstruct a purely musical experience. Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” is very much one of them. When it was first performed in Prague in 1866, the Czech nation had no state of its own, and this first opera in the Czech language became something far greater {…}
Interviews

Q & A: Svetlana Aksenova on Contemporary Opera and the Psychological Depth of Her Characters

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Svetlana Aksenova is a name that, in today’s operatic world, has become synonymous with a rare synthesis of flawless vocal command and confessional dramatic truth. A soprano from St. Petersburg, she trained at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, where she first drew critical attention as a student with her performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta.” Aksenova belongs to that select category of artists often {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Sondra Radvanovsky, Saioa Hernández, Brian Jagde, Ludovic Tézier, Lisette Oropesa, Jakub Józef Orliński, Sonya Yoncheva, Marina Rebeka, Xabier Anduaga, Mané Galoyan, & Benjamin Bernheim lead Teatro Real de Madrid’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Sondra Radvanovsky and Saioa Hernández lead Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” with Lucas Meachem, Szymon Mechliński, Brian Jagde,, Michael Fabiano and Jorge de Leon. Nicola Luisotti conducts Carlos Wagner’s production. Performance Dates: Sept. 23-Oct. 11, 2026 Paul Agnew conducts Handel’s “Riccardo Primo, rè d’Inghilterra” with Jakub Józef Orliński, Melissa Petit, Alex Rosen, {…}
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Renée Fleming, Joélle Harvey, Isabel Leonard, Lauren Snouffer, Reginald Mobley Lead San Francisco Symphony’s 2026–27 Vocal Season

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) The San Francisco Symphony has announced its 2026–27 season, taking place September 8, 2026–June 27, 2027. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali leads soprano Renée Fleming in Richard Strauss’s “Four Last Songs,” alongside Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben.” In connection with Fleming’s performances, the Symphony presents Music and the Mind, an evening of discussion {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Margarita Gritskova, Veronika Rovná, & Samueol Park Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week audiences get to hear rare pieces by Massenet, and Donizetti as well as Ethel Smyth, Bartok and Mark Abel. Massenet: Songs With Orchestra II Hélène Guilmette, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Julien Henric, and Thomas Dolié lead an album cenetered on more than twenty mélodies {…}

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