Nicky Spence, Ausrine Stundyte, Bogdan Volkov & Sara Swietlicki 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 will be able to listen to the world premiere of a new work, a DVD of Weinberg’s opera from Salzburg, and a rarely performed opera by Giacomelli. Adoration Bright Shiny Things releases “Adoration,” the world premiere live recording of an {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Benjamin Appl, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotruba & Joanna Klisowska 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, two albums celebrating Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau will be released. There is also a legendary recording from teh Wiener Staatsoper which will be released. Audiences can also check out several recordings featuring unknown composers. Chant in a Wail Navona releases composer and tenor {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Munich Opera Festival 2024 Review: Die Passagieren

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(Credit: W.Hoesl) It was particularly notable to watch Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s opera, “Die Passagieren” in Munich, even all these years after World War II. To walk the same streets where once goose-stepping Nazi soldiers rallied round Hitler and to visit the elegant, rebuilt National Theater to see an opera about the tragedy of that very subject intensified the experience. “Die Passagieren” {…}

News

Obituary: Polish Writer & Holocaust Survivor Zofia Posmysz Passes Away, Aged 98

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Polish writer and Holocaust survivor Zofia Posmysz has passed away as of August 8, 2022, according to Opera Narodowa. Born on August 23, 1923, Posmysz lived in Krakow until the invasion of Poland in 1939. Over the course of the Nazi occupation, she was arrested for distributing anti-Nazi leaflet, and was transferred from the Montelupich Prison to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration {…}

News

Soprano Channa Malkin to Give Recital at Fundación Juan March

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(Credit: Channa Malkin) Dutch soprano Channa Malkin will give a recital at the Fundación Juan March, thus making her debut in Spain. The program for the concert includes songs by Modest Mussorgsky, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and Josef Malkin. The concerts are part of a tour centered around Malkin’s most recent album “This is not a lullaby” which was inspired by the {…}

Business, News

Florida Grand Opera Chief Susan Danis To Leave Company

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Susan Danis is leaving Florida Grand Opera after six years as CEO and executive director. Danis announced in an exclusive statement to SFCR Monday morning noting, “It is hard to leave FGO after giving six years of your life to the company. It has been quite a ride. Together with some outstanding patrons, staff, and board members, we have created great {…}

On This Day, Special Features

6 Operas Based on the Works of Alexandre Dumas-Père

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Alexandre Dumas, père, is one of the most famous writers in the history of French literature. Some of his works, notably, “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Montecristo” have even transcended his homeland to become fixtures of the international literary canon. Shockingly, it is his son who is better known in the opera world thanks in part to a {…}

On This Day, Special Features

Operatic Adaptations of Some of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Great Novels

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, born on Nov. 11, 1821, is one of the most influential writers of all time. His works, most famously “Crime and Punishment” and “The Brothers Karamazov,” are best known for their psychological depth and some have gone so far as to call him one of the greatest psychologists of world literature. An ardent Christian, his works have been {…}

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