Lise Davidsen, Aigul Akhmetshina, Jeanine de Bique, Sandrine Piau, Michael Chance, Julie Roset, Andrea Bocelli Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week audiences get to hear a Verdi album from a leading soprano as well as a “Carmen” from one of the great interpreters of today. There is also a re-release by one of the foremost popera tenors of our time. Bizet: Carmen Aigul {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Carlo Vistoli, Cyrille Dubois Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week audiences get to experience several solo albums as well as a recording of Mahler’s monumental symphony. Handel’s Italians Carlo Vistoli explores the legacy of the Italian castrati who helped make the genre of oratorio famous in England in his new album recorded for Harmonia {…}

News

New York Polyphony to Mark 20th Anniversary with Concert at Site of Founding

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(Photo: Nino Felbab • Utstein Kloster) GRAMMY-nominated vocal quartet New York Polyphony will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a concert on Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square, the site of the ensemble’s first public performance on Sept. 14, 2006. The event is presented by Gotham Early Music Scene as part {…}

Business, News

San Francisco Opera Orchestra Will Not Play Opening Night Unless it Receives New Contract

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The San Francisco Opera Orchestra is warning audiences that it will not perform opening night of the 2026-27 season until it receives a fair contract. The orchestra released a statement noting, “Dear Friends, We are writing to let you know that the musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra will not be able to perform on Opening Night, September 12, {…}

News

Berkeley Symphony Announces 2026-27 Season

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The Berkeley Symphony has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are vocal performances. The Berkeley Symphony’s 2026–27 season concludes with “Remembrance,” a program of resilience and renewal. Conductor Kwamé Ryan leads the first live performance of the orchestral version of Jake Heggie’s “Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope,” featuring mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce and violinist Benjamin Beilman. The program also includes {…}

News, Season Announcement

Music of Remembrance Unveils 2026-27 Season ‘Illuminations: Music of Our Shared Humanity’

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Music of Remembrance has announced its 2026-27 season, “Illuminations: Music for Our Shared Humanity,” comprising four programs in Seattle, with one performance also given in San Francisco. “Journeys” marks the season opener, presented in honor of Steve Reich’s 90th birthday with a performance of his “Different Trains.” The program includes the Music of Remembrance commission “Stormy Seas” by Iranian American {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Rachael Wilson on the Role of Fatima in Weber’s ‘Oberon’

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Admired for her dramatic intensity and vocal versatility, mezzo-soprano Rachael Wilson is rapidly earning distinction across a wide and varied repertoire. A graduate of The Juilliard School, she was a member of the Opera Studio at Bayerische Staatsoper, later joining their Ensemble between 2015 and 2019. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Ensemble at Staatsoper Stuttgart. {…}

Reviews

Washington Performing Arts at Strathmore 2026 Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant’s “Book of Ayres” & The Brandee Younger Trio

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(Photos: Erin Patrice O’Brian & Tsuneo Koga) The music of John Dowland with early music instruments combined with contemporary keyboard, flute, bass, and percussion in a Jazz combo, left one wondering if this program would work musically. It turned out, for me, to be a surprisingly entertaining concert with fine performances by all. Illuminating Performances “Obligations lead to expectations which {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Theater Koblenz 2025-26 Review: Antony and Cleopatra

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(Photo: Matthias Baus) “Antony and Cleopatra” is not a subject matter one might readily expect for an opera by John Adams. Primarily a love story, it does not fit easily alongside the other operas in his catalogue, which focus on religio-philosophical issues or significant, recent events impacting the USA. By comparison, Antony and Cleopatra’s intense, turbulant, ultimately doomed relationship appears {…}

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