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New Sussex Opera 2025 Review: The Silver Bell

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“It’s not an opera anymore, it’s a nightmare,” Camille Saint-Saëns famously wrote in 1880, when asked to produce a potential SIXTH version of his FIRST ever opera “Le timbre d’argent” (“The Silver Bell”) for a St Petersburg production which, like so many of its previous productions, was eventually abandoned. Commissioned in 1864, it saw its first abandonment at its inception, {…}
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Alexandra Lang to Headline ‘Lift Her Voice’ at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

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The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will feature “Lift Her Voice,” a recital celebrating Black female voices. The event, set for Sept. 20, 2025, will feature soprano Alexandra Lang and pianist Maria Thompson Corley. The duo will perform works by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, B.E. Boykin, and Maria Thompson Corley, as well. Corley will world premiere her {…}
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Cumbria Opera Festival 2025: The Marriage of Figaro

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(Photo: Chris Tribble) In June of this year, OperaWire was fortunate enough to report and review the sterling efforts being made by the regional opera company New Sussex Opera in bringing the wonderful world of opera to the masses, performing glorious art away from the mainstream houses with their performance of a rarely sung opera, Saint-Saëns’s “The Silver Bell.”

This time, {…}
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Parsifal

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(Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) A new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” is always a big deal, given the imaginative and actual scale of the work and the special aura that surrounds it – a triumph of Bayreuth marketing, truly, to try and restrict its performances for so many years. But this new staging at Glyndebourne Festival Opera signals the first time {…}
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Glyndebourne to Present Largest Mainstage Community Opera in its History

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(Photo credit: Sarah Hickson) Glyndebourne has announced its largest mainstage community opera in its history to take place in February 2025. The amateur singers and instrumentalists will perform alongside professional musicians in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove and April De Angelis’ “Uprising.” Appearing on stage will be a community chorus of 110 singers made up of 60 young people {…}
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2024: Carmen

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(Photo: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photography by Richard Hubert Smith) “Carmen” is unquestionably one of the most popular works ever composed and has become an almost permanent fixture in the repertoire of opera houses. However, this presents something of a dilemma for those creative artists and directors who desire to produce the opera in a more contemporary setting and feel {…}
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Bampton Classical Opera to Present ‘L’Isola d’Alcina’

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Bampton Classical Opera has a new addition to its 2024 season. The company revealed that it will present Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s “L’Isola d’Alcina.” The three-act opera is loosely based on the sorceress Alcina and features four men getting washed up on an island where they are seduced by an 800-year-old witch. The opera will be directed by Jeremy Gray and conducted {…}
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Bampton Classical Opera to Present Haydn’s ‘The Apothecary’

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Bampton Classical Opera is set to present “The Apothecary” as part of its 30th anniversary season. The Haydn opera, which is set to open on Sept. 9, 2023, will take place at The Barn at Old Walland, Wadhurt, East Sussex. It will star Guy Beynon as Sempronio, the titular apothecary, and Iúnó Connolly as Grilletta, his ward and pupil. Joining {…}
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2023 Review: The Dialogue of the Carmelites

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(Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) Whether you like Barrie Kosky’s stagings or not, they always have an enormous presence. Think of the Marlene Dietrich-inspired gorilla suit in his “Carmen” for the Royal Opera House, the inflatable Beckmesser caricature in the Nuremberg trial “Meistersinger”, or the eerie sea of ash and candles in his “Saul” for Glyndebourne. The latter, highly acclaimed, meant {…}

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