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Pretty Yende, Lawrence Brownlee, Daniela Barcellona & Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Lead Rossini Opera Festival’s 2025 Season

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced its 2025 season. The 46th edition of the event will take place from August 10 to 22, 2025. Operas  The festival will open with a new production of “Zelmira,” conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti. The production will be directed by Spanish director Calixto Bieito, making his debut in Pesaro. Pretty Yende stars in the title {…}

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Julie Fuchs & Lawrence Brownlee Lead Paris Opera’s ‘La Fille du Régiment’ Stream

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(Credit: Elisa Haberer/ONP) On  Nov. 6, 2024, Opera de Paris Play is set to present Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment.” The production will be streamed in Laurent Pelly’s legendary production. It sets the comedy during the 1914 war rather than the Napoleonic Wars and modernizes the piece without sacrificing a single ounce of its brio. Julie Fuchs leads the cast in {…}

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Caterina Sala, Lawrence Brownlee, Gerald Finley & Pavol Breslik Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get a chance to listen to rarely performed works from some of the great operatic composers in the world. There are also many world premiere recordings as well. Lucie di Lammermoor  Dynamic releases Donizetti’s French version of “Lucie de {…}

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Lawrence Brownlee to Headline Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘Mitridate, Re di Ponto’

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Boston Lyric Opera is set to open its new season with Mozart’s “Mitridate, Re di Ponto,” an early opera seria triumph. The work, which will be presented between Sept. 13 and 15 at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, will showcase Lawrence Brownlee in the title role. The production will also include soprano Brenda Rae in the role of Mitridate’s fiancée {…}

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Lawrence Brownlee To Appear on Speaking Soundly 

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(Photo credit: (c) Shervin Lainez) Grammy-nominated American tenor Lawrence Brownlee is to appear on the Speaking Soundly podcast, hosted by Met Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss. The episode description reads, “The pickleball fanatic discusses his Metropolitan Opera auditions, why the high C’s aren’t the only notes that matter, and what it was like to be cast as Tamino in The {…}

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Lawrence Brownlee, Michelle Johnson, Diego Torre, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Brandie Sutton Headline Boston Lyric Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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Boston Lyric Opera has announced its 204-25 season. The season opens with James Darrah’s production of “Mitridate.” The opera stars Lawrence Brownlee, Brenda Rae, John Holiday, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Angela Yam, Alexis Peart, and Charles Sy. David Angus conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 13 & 15, 2024 Michelle Johnson stars in “Aida,” alongside Diego Torre, Alice Chung, Brian Major, Stefan Egerstrom, Morris Robinson, {…}

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Rosa Feola, Olga Peretyatko, Samantha Hankey & Lawrence Brownlee Lead New National Theatre Tokyo’s 2024-25 Season

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New National Theatre Tokyo has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Bellini’s “La Sonnambula.” The cast includes Hidekazu Tsumaya, Mutsumi Taniguchi, Rosa Feola, Antonio Siragusa, Hare Ito, and Kei Kondo. Maurizio Benini conducts a production directed by Bárbara Lluch. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-14, 2024 Gezim Myshketa, René Barbera, Yoko Yasui, Hidekazu Tsumaya, Olga Peretyatko, and Junko Saito star in {…}

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Angela Gheorghiu, Lawrence Brownlee & Daron Hagen Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get to hear a new recording by one of the world’s most renowned soprano as well as the complete recordings of baroque masterpieces and some world premiere pieces. Les Talens Lyriques perform Louise Bertin’s “Fausto” Les Talens Lyriques and {…}