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News, Season Announcement

Marina Viotti, Joyce El-Khoury, Nicole Car, Etienne Dupuis & Patricia Racette Lead Dallas Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Dallas Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. Mainstage  The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen.” The company will present the United States premiere of a new production that recreates the original Opéra-Comique production with sets and costumes faithfully designed as they were in 1875. The production will be directed by Romain Gilbert. Marina Viotti sings the title role in her company {…}

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Edgardo Rocha & Angel Blue Lead 2025 Performances at Washington Concert Opera

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The Washington Concert Opera is set to present two works in 2025. On March 1, the company will present Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” with Edgardo Rocha in the role of Tito. He will be joined by Tamara Wilson who will sing the role of Vitellia, Stephanie Doche as Sesto, Meridian Prall as Annio, and Raven McMillon as Servilia. Before {…}

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Operalia Competition Announces 2024 Winners

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The Operalia Competition has announced its 2024 winners. The first prize went to American Soprano Kathleen O’Mara and Chinese bass-baritone Le Bu. Both first-prize winners also won the Birgit Nilsson Prize. The second prize was awarded to Azerbaijan mezzo-soprano Elmina Hasan and American tenor Angel Romero. Hasan also won the Pepita Embil Prize of Zarzuela and Romero won the Don {…}

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Operalia Announces 2024 Finalists

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The Operalia Competition has announced the 2024 finalists. The finalists are: Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Elmina Hasan, mezzo-soprano, Azerbaijan Liam James Karai, bass-baritone, UK/India Jack Lee, baritone, UK Kathleen O’Mara, soprano, USA Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano, USA Meridian Prall, mezzo-soprano, USA Angel Romero, tenor, USA Polina Shabunina, soprano, Russia The Zarzuela Finalists: {…}

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Operalia Competition Announces 2024 Semi-Finalists

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The Operalia Competition has announced the semi-finalists for the 2024 competition. The Semi-finalists in Opera are: Nurgalym Amanbay, tenor, Kazakhstan Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Lilit Davtyan, soprano, Armenia Elmina Hasan, mezzo-soprano, Azerbaijan Liam James Karai, bass-baritone, UK/India Elmira Karakhanova, soprano, Russia Geonho Lee, baritone, South Korea Jack Lee, baritone, UK Gabriela {…}

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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Operalia Competition Announces 2024 Participants

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The Operalia Competition has announced the 2024 participants. The competition will showcase singers from the USA, China, UK, India, Cuba, Italy, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Australia, Belarus, South Korea, Uzbekistan, India, Sweden, Poland, and Azerbaijan. Here is the list of singers: Nurgalym Amanbay, tenor, Kazakhstan Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Monica {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Atlanta Opera 2023-24 Review: Die Walküre

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(Photo credit: Raftermen Photography) Of late, The Atlanta Opera (TAO) makes possible the nearly-impossible. In March, your reviewer summarized the robust health this company enjoys despite the current fiscal climate that shrinks arts organizations. With each gut punch to classical music lovers in the United States—the Metropolitan Opera Guild evaporating and Opera News taking the form of a brief supplement {…}