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Bard’s Summerscape Festival 2025 Review: Dalibor

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Many who visit OperaWire regularly have their various interests in what one might call, operatic “rarities”–works that have achieved, to an extent, legendary status despite being seldom staged. As an avid lover of Hector Berlioz’s archetypal romantic career, I devoured both the Barzun and Cairns biographies of the composer more than once. And such a rarity mentioned was Spontini’s “La {…}

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American Symphony Orchestra 2025 Review: Guntram

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(Photo: Matt Dine) On June 6, 2025, Carnegie Hall hosted the American Symphony Orchestra’s concert revival of Richard Strauss’s first opera, “Guntram.” Rarely mentioned alongside “Salomé” or “Der Rosenkavalier,” “Guntram” reveals a young composer grappling with grand ideas. Strauss stumbled, learned, and went on to compose a total of fourteen operas. Audiences can hear Wagner in nearly every bar of {…}

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Bard Music Festival 2024 Review: La damnation de Faust

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(Photo by Matt Dine) There was a time that I would have unashamedly described myself an avid Berliozian. Which means, to me, that I not only loved Berlioz’s music but also the classic ‘romantic’ ideal his life represented. Besides his epitomizing the dramatic life of the Romantic period artist, Berlioz clearly blazed a path with innovative forms of music that {…}

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Jana McIntyre, Stephanie Blythe, William Sharp Headline The Orchestra Now’s 2024-25 Season

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The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2024-25 season, the 10th in its history. “As The Orchestra Now celebrates the milestone of its 10th anniversary season, I am deeply gratified by what we’ve achieved,” said Music Director and founder Leon Botstein in an official press release. “What began as an idealistic vision in 2015 has fully blossomed and taken root around {…}

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Leah Hawkins, Lindsay Ammann, Joshua Blue, & Stefan Egerstrom Lead Dvořák’s ‘Requiem’ With the American Symphony Orchestra

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(Photo credit: ©Kerry Hallihan, ©Rod Evans, ©Caitlin Odham ©Holli Egerstrom) The American Symphony Orchestra and the Bard Festival Chorale present Antonin Dvořák’s “Requiem,” Op. 89 on Jan. 25 at Carnegie Hall. Soprano Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano Lindsay Ammann, tenor Joshua Blue, and bass Stefan Egerstrom serve as soloists in one of the composer’s lesser-known choral works. They are joined by the Bard {…}

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Samantha Martin & Katherine Lerner Lee Headline The Orchestra NOW’s 2022-23 Season

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The Orchestra NOW has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on operatic and vocal performances. Soprano Samantha Martin will perform George Walker’s “Lilacs.” The program, which will be conducted by Leon Botstein, will also feature a performance of Joan Tower’s Concert for Flute as performed by Andrea Ábel. The program concludes with {…}

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Teatro Grattacielo 2021-22 Review: ‘L’Amico Fritz’

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On November 14, 2021, New York’s Teatro Grattacielo presented a semi-staged production of Pietro Mascagni’s “L’Amico Fritz.” Unlike his hit, “Cavalleria rusticana,” Mascagni’s second opera orbits the far reaches of the standard repertoire. I give the company credit for reviving the somewhat charming opera, but there were misfires in the musical execution and elsewhere that marred the production, leaving me {…}

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Ben Bliss, Tyler Duncan, Joélle Harvey, Samantha Hankey Headline Bard Music Festival’s ‘Nadia Boulanger and Her World’

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The Bard Music Festival has unveiled the full slate of its “Nadia Boulanger and Her World.” For the purposes of this article, the focus will be on operatic and vocal programs and performers. First up is “Program One: The Exemplary” which will feature Boulanger’s music alongside that of Lili Boulanger, Praulx Rainier, Louise Talma, Grazyna Bacewiz, and Julia Perry. The {…}