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Kaufman Music Center Ann Goodman Recital Hall to Showcase ‘Children Music Fundraising Recital’

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The Kaufman Music Center Ann Goodman Recital Hall will present a “Children Music Fundraising Recital” on Sept. 20, 2024. The event will feature Felix Jarrar alongside Anush Avetisyan and Matthew Cossack as the explore works by Dvorak, Ives, Bernstein, and two pieces by Jarrar. The recital aims to raise $5,000 for the nonprofit organization Kaufman Music Center’s children’s education center. {…}

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Central City Opera 2024 Review: La Fanciulla del West

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(Photo credit: Amanda Tipton) Central City Opera (CCO) resurges in 2023-24, the institution entering the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, installing Alison Moritz as Artistic Director and bouncing back from a turbulent 2023 marked by labor strife, now buoyed by the new leadership of CEO Scott Finlay. With a reinforced endowment, CCO’s ambitious 2024 summer festival season programmed Gilbert and {…}

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Saioa Hernández, Nina Stemme, Brandon Jovanovich, Ève-Maud Hubeaux, Klaus Florian Vogt, Piero Pretti Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: Bettina Stöß / Bernd Uhlig) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced all the premieres of its 2021-22 season. Here is a look. The “Best of Carmen” concert will spotlight Valeriia Savinskaia, Arianna Manganello, Elena Tsallagova, Matthew Newlin, Joel Allison, and Ève-Maud Hubeaux in the title role. Daniel Carter conducts a production by Silke Sense. Performance dates: Aug. 21 – {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin 2019-20 Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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(Credit: Deutsche Oper Berlin/Bettina Stöß) Based on a comedy by William Shakespeare, Britten and Pears’ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” had its world premiere at the Aldeburgh Festival on June 11, 1960, with the composer conducting. Britten and Pears tried to bring Shakespeare’s magical world onstage both as a play and as a vocal piece. Alas, the opera has since struggled {…}

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Andrei Danilov Set to Take Over Deutsche Oper Berlin ‘Thaïs’ Performances

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(Photo Source: Tact International Art Management) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced a major cast change for its upcoming performances of “Thaïs,” according to its official website. Andrei Danilov will replace previously scheduled tenor Paolo Fanale in the role of Nicias for the both concert performances of the famed Massenet opera on April 8 and April 12. Danilov has recently {…}

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Cecilia Molinari, Philipp Jekal Stepping into ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ Performances at Deutsche Oper Berlin

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(Credit: Michelle Monasta) Per the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s official website, there will be several cast changes for its upcoming production of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” For the presentation of the Rossini gem on March 5, Philipp Jekal will take on the title role from Samuel Dale Johnson. For the performances on April 25 and 29, Cecilia Molinari will replace Vasilisa {…}

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American Director Ted Huffman To Stage ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ At Deutsche Oper Berlin

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(Credit: Deutsche Oper Berlin/Leo Seidel) American Director Ted Huffman will stage the Benjamin Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In this production of the masterwork at the largest Berlin’s opera house, Huffman brings a great deal of memories of Provincetown on Cape Cod. “I think of Provincetown as being akin to the forest in ‘A Midsummer {…}