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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}

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Lina González-Granados to Lead Los Angeles Opera’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’

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The Los Angeles Opera has announced that it will present a concert showcase of Benjamin Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” on Jan. 20, 2023. The opera will be conducted by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados who will lead a performance headlined by singers from the company’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino will take on the lead role with baritone {…}

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LA Opera Announces 2022-23 Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists

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The Los Angeles Opera has announced the Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists for the 2022-23 season. The newest members, who were chosen out of over 700 applicants, are mezzo-sopranos Deepa Johnny, Madeleine Lyon, and Sarah Saturnino; bass-baritone Alan Williams; and baritone Ryan Wolfe. Manuel Arellano and Lucas Nogara join the program as pianists/coaches. They will join sopranos Alaysha Fox and Tiffany Townsend, {…}

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Diana Damrau, Andrè Schuen, Camilla Nylund & Philippe Jordan Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2023-24 Season

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The Musikverein Wien has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Günther Groissböck and Malcolm Martineau perform a recital of music by Bruckner, Schumann and Wolf. Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2023 Marie Jacquot will conduct the Wiener Symphoniker in a program that includes Olivier Messiaen’s Un sourire, Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste, {…}

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Sound of Fools to Present New Staging of ‘The Priestess of Morphine’

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Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science will host the Sound of Fools presentation of “The Priestess of Morphine,” a monodrama for two voices, at the museum on June 17-18, 2022. Acclaimed contemporary opera director Bea Goodwin’s staging is site specific, with the performances taking place throughout the museum halls. The work, composed by American Prize for Opera-winner Rosśa Crean, with {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Rosśa Crean & Aiden K. Feltkamp’s ‘The Priestess of Morphine’

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The joined forces by librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp and composer Rosśa Crean brings the incredible story of Gertrud Günther (also known as Marie Madeleine) on a stage for the first time in the monodrama, called the “The Priestess of Morphine: The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine.” Premiered on June 28, 2019, in the International Museum of Surgical Science, opera was soon {…}