Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: Turandot

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At the risk of repeating myself, opera should be all about the music and the voice. If I’m ever asked to quantify that statement, I readily proffer “Turandot” in support of my assertions. For here is a ridiculous, cruel, convoluted tale that is impossible to like and grasp, perpetrated by a pair of unpleasant, thoroughly dislikeable characters with, were it {…}

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Pretty Yende, Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez, Allan Clayton, Lise Davidsen, & Lisette Oropesa Lead Royal Opera House’s 2024-25 Season

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The Royal Opera House has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the season. Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” will open the season with a cast that includes Luca Micheletti, Ying Fang, Huw Montague Rendall, Jacquelyn Stucker, and Ginger Costa-Jackson. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-15, 2024 Verdi’s “La Traviata” will feature two casts. The first cast will be headlined {…}

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Royal Opera House 2022-23 Review: Turandot

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Photo: Marc Brenner Having an unequivocal passion for Puccini, this reviewer must confess to being somewhat conflicted over his final work. These concerns, though, have always been assuaged with the knowledge that many others have also been plagued with such uncertainty, not least with the original work itself, for, of course, the maestro died before the completion of “Turandot.” After {…}

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Royal Opera House 2022-23 Review: Turandot

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Photo: Marc Brenner/ROH Somnific fiction is the stuff of bedtime stories starring beasts and feasts of the absurd: displays of madness only children could endure pre-slumber. Lumbering imaginations with beguilement, it refrains from the revilement of base villains, wrapping them instead in tangible entrancement. This enhancement of surrealness makes the fairytale the tender tooth’s apéritif: a nightly dose of magical {…}

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Lin Lin Fan & Ulrike Schneider Headline Bach’s ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’ at Staatstheater Kassel

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The Staatstheater Kassel has announced its upcoming premiere of Johan Sebastian Bach’s “Weihnachtsoratorium.” The Bach work will star soprano Lin Lin Fan, alto Ulrike Schneider, tenor Andrés Felipe Agudelo, and bass Sam Taskinen. Kiril Stankow conducts a production by Jochen Biganzoli with dramaturgy by Sarah Schnoor. Katharina Weissenborn will be responsible for costume design. The oratorio is set to open {…}

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Leonardo Capalbo, Anush Hovhannisyan & Theo Hoffman Lead Israeli Opera’s 2021-22 Season

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The Israeli Opera has announced its 2021-22 season featuring eight productions. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” opens the season with Alla Vasilevitsky, Yael Levita, Alasdair Kent, Aaron Blake, Theo Hoffman, Oded Reich, and Beate Ritter. Nimrod David Pfeffer conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 4-15, 2021 Ira Bertman, Alla Vasilevitsky, Andrei Bondarenko, and Kostas Smorginas lead Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” with Dan Ettinger conducting. {…}

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Katarina Bradić, Vlada Borovko & Egils Silins Lead Staatstheater Kassel 2020-21 Season

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Credits: (Dragana Branković / Intermusica Official website / Egils Silins official website) The Staatstheater Kassel has announced the complete casts for its 2020-21 season. Here is the full rundown. Premieres “L’Ultimo Sogno,” one act opera by Giuseppe Verdi and Carlo Ciceri will feature Vlada Borovko in the role of Violetta Valéry, Giordano Lucà as Alfredo Germont, while Cozmin Sime and {…}

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Anna Netrebko Headlines Salzburg Osterfestpiele’s 2021 Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced its 2021 festival with a number of great artists and one major new operatic production. For this article we will only focus on the vocal selections. For the entire program click here. Christian Thielemann conducts a new production of Puccini’s “Turandot” with Yona Kim directing. Anna Netrebko sings the title role with Yusif Eyvazov {…}

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Applications Open For 53rd International Vocal Competition In The Netherlands

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Applications are now open for the 53rd International Vocal Competition (IVC). This year the LiedDuo Competition will be held in the city of ‘s-Hertogenborsch in the North Brabant province of the Netherlands from Nov. 20 – 24, 2019. The program will include masterclasses and feedback from a jury consisting of highly regarded singers Dame Felicity Lott, Jard van Nes, and Thomas Oliemans and {…}

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Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: Turandot

Pretty Yende, Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez, Allan Clayton, Lise Davidsen, & Lisette Oropesa Lead Royal Opera House’s 2024-25 Season

Royal Opera House 2022-23 Review: Turandot

Royal Opera House 2022-23 Review: Turandot

Lin Lin Fan & Ulrike Schneider Headline Bach’s ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’ at Staatstheater Kassel

Leonardo Capalbo, Anush Hovhannisyan & Theo Hoffman Lead Israeli Opera’s 2021-22 Season

Katarina Bradić, Vlada Borovko & Egils Silins Lead Staatstheater Kassel 2020-21 Season

Anna Netrebko Headlines Salzburg Osterfestpiele’s 2021 Season

Applications Open For 53rd International Vocal Competition In The Netherlands