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Ludovic Tézier, Saioa Hernández, Mika Kares, Ewa Plonka Headline Savonlinna Opera Festival’s 2025 Season

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The Savonlinna Opera Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. First up is the “550 Years of Olavinlinna” anniversary concert. Erkki Lasonpalo conducts. Soloists will be announced at a later date. Performance Date: July 3, 2025 Ludovic Tézier, Saioa Hernández, Goran Juric, and Johan Krogius headline “Macbeth.” Lorenzo Passerini conducts Ralf Långbacka’s production. Vilppu Kiljunen will be the revival director. Performance Date: July {…}
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Freddie de Tommaso, Andrè Schuen & Mika Kares Headline New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get to experience a solo debut album and two complete opera recordings. Here is a look at our recommendations. Passione Freddie De Tommaso releases his debut album “Passione.” The new album represents an homage to tenor Franco Corelli and features arrangements made for other star tenors including Henry Mancini, Mantovani, and Giancarlo Chiaramello. There are also {…}
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Savonlinna Opera Festival Cancels Two Programs From 2025 Season

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The Savonlinna Opera Festival has announced program changes to its 2025 season. The company said that due to production-related reasons, the Olavinlinna 550th Anniversary Concert on July 3, 2025 and “Il Diluvio Universale” on August 1st, 2025 will be removed from the Savonlinna Opera Festival program. The festival added, “This difficult decision was influenced not only by logistical challenges but {…}
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Opéra National de Paris 2024-25 Review: Das Rheingold

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(Photo: Herwig Prammer / OnP) A very promising night indeed: Paris Opera takes its first step toward its new Ring under the direction of Calixto Bieito—one of the most exciting artists in his field—and with a promising cast. The stakes are particularly high for the company president, Alexander Neef, who would crowd his tenure with a Wagner Ring in continental {…}
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Berlin State Opera Announces Ring Cycle for 2025-26 Season

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The Berlin State Opera has announced that it will present The Ring Cycle during the 2025-26 season. The company said that it would present Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production in two cycles at the beginning of the 2025-26 season. Christian Thielemann who conducted the Staatskapelle at the celebrated premieres of the productions in October 2022, will conduct Wagner’s monumental work as General Music {…}
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Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for ‘Das Rheingold’

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Opéra de Paris has announced a cast change for its production of “Das Rheingold.” The company said, “Ludovic Tézier, unwell, has been obliged to withdraw from the new production of Richard Wagner’s ‘Das Rheingold,’ directed by Calixto Bieito. Influenza prevents him from completing all the rehearsals required for this role debut. The baritone is immensely disappointed at having to give up {…}
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Piotr Beczala, Camilla Nylund, Catherine Foster, Klaus Florian Vogt, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Bayreuth Festival’s 2025 Seasn

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The Bayreuth Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. The season opens with “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” starring Michael Spyres, Georg Zeppenfeld, Christina Nilsson, Christa Mayer, and Matthias Stier. Daniele Gatti conducts and Matthias Davids directs. Performance Dates: July 25 – August 22, 2025 Valentin Schwarz’s “Das Rheingold” will be conducted by Simone Young and features Tomas Konieczny, Olafur Sigurdarson, Daniele Behle, {…}
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Berwaldhallen Review 2024: Khovanshchina

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(Photo Credits: Maarit Kytöharju) Opening Berwaldhallen’s 2024 Baltic Sea Festival, on August 24th, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gerard McBurney produced a tastefully contemporary and neo-Wagnerian rendition of Modest Mussorgsky’s unfinished “national music drama,” “Khovanshchina,” to a ravenous public. Awarded, and rightly so, with three ovations, ten soloists from across Europe and three choirs successfully produced one of the most expressive versions {…}

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