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Mario Chang, Lauren Fagan, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Annemarie Kremer & Lea Shaw Lead Scottish Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Scottish Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with a double bill of Ravel’s “L’heure espagnole” and Walton’s “The Bear.” Alexandra Cravero conducts the production by Jacopo Spirei. Lea Shaw, Jamie MacDougall, Daniel Barrett, Edward Jowle, and Luvo Maranti star in Ravel’s production, and Chloe Harris, Daniel Barrett, and Edward Jowle star in Walton’s opera. Performance Dates: {…}
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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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Gwyn Hughes Jones, Izabela Matula, Leonardo Capalbo, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Rachel Nicholls Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2023 Season

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Grange Park Opera has announced its summer 2023 slate. The company will feature three operas between June 8 – July 12, 2023. First up is Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” The opera will be directed by Charlie Edwards with Gwyn Hughes Jones and Rachel Nicholls as the star-crossed lovers. Joining them will be Christine Rice as Brangäne and David Stout as {…}
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Latonia Moore & Gwyn Hughes Jones Star in Washington National Opera’s ‘Il Trovatore’

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The Washington National Opera kicks off its season with a new production of “Il Trovatore” starting on October 22, 2022.  The famed Verdi opera will receive a newly conceived period production by director Brenna Corner, with sets by Erhard Rom, a finalist of the International Opera Prize. There will also be wardrobe by Martin Pakledinaz. The cast will be led {…}
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Joyce El-Khoury, Tarra Erraught & Gwyn Hughes-Jones Headline Welsh National Opera’s 2018-19 Season

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The Welsh National Opera has announced its 2018-19 season featuring a number of classic operas and new productions. It will also mark David Pountney’s final year as WNO Artistic Director. Autumn 2018 The season opens on Sept. 15 with a new production of Prokofiev’s masterpiece “War and Peace.” The opera which will be conducted by Tomáš Hanus and directed by Pountney {…}
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Natalya Romaniw, Sir Bryn Terfel, Roderick Williams, Luis Gomes & Mary Bevan Lead City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 Season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights. Kazuki Yamada conducts Elgar’s “The Dream of Gerontius” with soloists Jess Dandy, Roderick Williams and David Butt Philip. Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2025 Osmo Vanka conducts a program of Sibelius and Shostakovich. Helena Juntunen is the soloist. Performance Date: Nov. 19, {…}
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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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Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Il Trovatore’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its Dec. 6 performance of “Il Trovatore.” The company said, “For tonight’s performance of Verdi’s ‘Il Trovatore,’ the role of Manrico will be sung by Arturo Chacón-Cruz.” The Mexican tenor will replace the originally scheduled Gwyn Hughes Jones. This performance will mark Chacón-Cruz’s fourth performance at the Met following his surprise {…}

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