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(UPDATED) ​​Corinne Costell, Naomi Brigell, Karlos Piñero-Mercado, & Ryan Alexander Perform in Ear Taxi Festival 2025

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The Ear Taxi Festival’s “The Composer’s Voice,” has announced that it will return to Chicago in fall 2025. This article only features classical voice events. The chamber vocal ensemble, Bella Voce opens the 2025 Festival with the oratorio, “Lost Objects.” The work by Bang on a Can combines choir, electronics, and modern themes. Hannah De Priest, Ryan Belongie, and Luke {…}
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Kangmin Justin Kim, Lauren Decker, Sophie Michaux, Emily Birsan Headline Haymarket Opera Company’s 2023 Season

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Haymarket Opera Company has unveiled its 2023 season. It all kicks off with Scarlatti’s 1693 oratorio “La Giuditta.” The work will star Emily Birsan, Sophie Michaux, Sarah Brailey, William Dwyer, and David Govertsen. Craig Trompeter leads a chamber ensemble. The performance will take place at Gannon Concert Hall at DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center. Performance Date: March 24, 2023 That {…}
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Bejun Mehta, Sophie Rennert, Francesca Ascioti & Giuseppina Bridelli Headline Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 2022 Season

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(Credit: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music official website) The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2022 season, featuring three operas and a number of concerts. For the purpose of this article we will focus on the vocal works. Here is a full slate. Operas  Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera “Silla” spotlights Bejun Mehta, Eleonora Bellocci, Valer Sabadus, Roberta Invernizzi, {…}
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Haymarket Opera & Newberry Consort to Present ‘Euridice’

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Haymarket Opera is teaming up with The Newberry Consort to present Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” on Oct. 24 and 25, 2025. The oldest surviving opera, which originally premiered in 1600 and had its American premiere at the University of Chicago in 1967, will take the stage of the Music Institute of Chicago in a production starring Soprano Erica Schuller and tenor {…}
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Musikfest Bremen 2025 Review: The Dragon of Wantley

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(Credit: Patric Leo) John Frederick Lampe’s “The Dragon of Wantley” (1737), with libretto by Henry Carey, is one of the sharpest English burlesques of the 18th century. By dressing up absurd English verse in the grand musical gestures associated with Handel, it gleefully mocked the Italian operas that had dominated London. The parody was so effective—and so popular—that it undercut {…}
News, Season Announcement

Bach Society of Saint Louis Celebrates 85th Season in 2025

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(Photo credit: ProPhotoSTL) The Bach Society of Saint Louis unveils its 2025 season lineup. The Society’s Music Director, A. Dennis Sparger leads all performances. The season with Mozart’s “Requiem.” Molly Netter, Clara Osowski, Gene Stenger, and Paul Max Tipton are soloists with the Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra. Performance Date: October 12, 2025 The Christmas Candlelight Concert features John Rutter’s {…}
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Boston Early Music Festival 2025 Review: Octavia

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(Photo: Kathy Wittman) Once every other year, Boston becomes THE city to be in if you are a hardcore early music addict. While many festivals claim to focus on early music, they often stick to the usual crowd-pleasers—Bach, one of the Scarlatti’s, Vivaldi, etc. The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) offers something stronger. Under the leadership of Paul O’Dette and {…}
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Bella Voce Announces 2024-25 Season

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Chicago-based Bella Voce has announced its 2024–2025 season: Odysseys, a musical expedition of evocative and enduring works of the early music repertoire. The season opens with “Iberia and the Americas.” The program is a sacred polyphony from new-world peninsulares as well as composers indigenous to the Americas. The a cappella program features works by Vicente Lusitano, Francisco López Capillas, and {…}
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Haymarket Opera Company Unveils its 2024 Season

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(Photo credit: Elliot Mandel) Haymarket Opera Company has announced its 2024 season. The season kicks off with “La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista.” Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron makes her Haymarket debut, along with bass-baritone Christian Pursell as Herod and tenor Eric Ferring. Sopranos Erica Schuller and Kristen Knutson return to Haymarket. Craig Trompeter leads the chamber ensemble. Performance Date: March 22, {…}

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