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Cecilia Bartoli, Eleonora Buratto, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, Chen Reiss, Marina Rebeka & Stéphane Degout Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2025-26 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig in Brahms’ Deutsche Requiem with Christian Gerhaher and Julia Kleiter. The program includes Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5. Performance Date: Sept. 3, 2025 Riccardo Chailly condcuts the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus in excerpts from Verdi’s “La {…}
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Christina Nilsson, Catriona Morison, Benjamin Bruns, Maximilian Schmitt in Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich’s 2026-27 Season

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(Photo credit: Georg Aerni) Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich announces its 2026-27 season. Included in this article are vocal concerts. Christina Nilsson performs Brahms under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann. Performance Dates: Oct. 21 & 22, 2026 Chen Reiss, pianist Yael Kareth, and clarinetist Sharon Kam perform works by Louis Spohr, Mahler, and Schubert. Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2026 Lisa Larsson and {…}
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Sam Park, Joshua Sanders, Theo Hoffman, Signe Heiberg, Fleuranne Brockway & Galina Benevich Lead Staastheater Wiesbaden’s 2026-27 Season

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The Staastheater Wiesbaden has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres The season kicks off with Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” Performance Dates: August 22 & 29, 2026 “Metropolis Wiesbaden” will be based on Fritz Lang’s masterpiece with a film score by Gottfried Huppertz, Sebastian Nübling. Performance Dates: Sept. 12, 2026-Jan. 10, 2027 Dennis Krauß directs a new production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” {…}
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Angel Blue, Nicky Spence, Joyce DiDonato, Leah Hawkins, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Charles Castronovo Lead BBC Proms’ 2026 Season

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2026 season. Here are the vocal performances. The festival opens on with pianist Yunchan Lim and tenor Thomas Atkins joining Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for music by Ravel, Copland, Gershwin and Finzi. There will also be a world premiere by Josephine Stephenson. Performance Date: July 17, 2026 Gianandrea Noseda leads Beethoven’s Symphony {…}
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Benjamin Bernheim, Sabine Devieilhe, Olga Peretyatko, Magdalena Kožená, Klaus Florian Vogt, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Michael Volle & Miina-Liisa Värelä Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2026-27 Season

https://operawire.com/benjamin-bernheim-sabine-devieilhe-olga-peretyatko-magdalena-kozena-klaus-florian-vogt-nadine-sierra-elza-van-den-heever-michael-volle-miina-liisa-varela-lead-philharmonie-de-paris-2026-27/

The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Yannick Nezet-Seguin will conduct Elza van den Heever and the Met Orchestra in a program of Strauss music. Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2026 Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Joyce DiDonato team up with the Met Orchestra for Mahler and Kaija Saariaho. Performance Date: Sept. 2, {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe 2026 Review: ‘Tamerlano’ & ‘Atalanta’

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(Photo: Felix Grünschloß) This year, Karlsruhe curated a true weekend feast for Baroque enthusiasts: staging two Handel operas in a single day! The organizers even meticulously accounted for the expected performance durations of “Tamerlano” by pushing back the evening performance of “Atalanta.” It was not merely a schedule; it was a curated emotional arc that tested the endurance of the {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Jodie Devos, Luciano Pavarotti, Berit Norbakken Rolando Villazon, Freddie de Tommaso 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 get to hear a lost concert from a legendary tenor, an homage to a great singer who we lost too soon, a new album from one of the great tenors of our time, and a new song by a rising {…}
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Marc Blitzstein’s ‘Paraola and Circula’ to Get World Premiere in Berlin

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On Sept. 21, Marc Blitzstein’s “Parabola and Circula” will get its world premiere in a concert performance at the Berlin Philharmonie. The showcase will be presented by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung and the Berliner Festspiele / Musikfest Berlin. Karl-Heinz Steffens, Artistic Director of the “Bauhaus Music” project and Chief Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, will lead the {…}
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Joyce DiDonato, Corinne Winters, Nahuel Di Pierro, Stéphane Degout & Brenda Rae Lead Grand Théâtre de Genève’s 2025-26 Season

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The Grand Théâtre de Genève has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Mark Elder will conduct a new production of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” starring Daniel Johansson, Samuel Sakker, Jennifer Davis, Victoria Karkacheva, Franz-Josef Selig, and Stéphane Degout. Tatjana Gürbaca directs. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 4, 2025 Debussy’s “Pelléas & Mélisande” will star Björn Bürger, Mari Eriksmoen, Leigh Melrose, Nicolas Testé, Sophie Koch, {…}

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