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News, Season Announcement

Anastasiya Taratorkina, Kihun Yoon, Christophe Dumaux, Brett Sprague, Leonardo Lee & Lead Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe’s 2025-26 Season

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The Badische Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2025-26 season. Premiere  Rameau’s “Les Boréades” will star Ralitsa Ralinova, Anastasiya Taratorkina, Mathias Vidal, Ks. Konstantin Gorny, Ks. Tomohiro Takada, Kihun Yoon, Sébastian Monti, Martha Eason, Ks. Armin Kolarczyk, Oğulcan Yılmaz, and Michael Metzler. Attilio Cremonesi conducts the new production by Christoph von Bernuth. Performance Dates: Oct. 4, 2025-March 7, 2026 Konstantin Gorny, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Internationale Händel Festspiele, Karlsruhe 2025 Review: Phèdre

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(Photo: Felix Grünscloß) Among the offerings at this year’s Karlsruhe Händelfestspiele was a performance of “Phèdre,” an opera by the fairly obscure French composer Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. What the connection is to Händel, however, is somewhat of a mystery. There was no explanation provided in the program. The two composers never met; in fact, Lemoyne would have only been eight years {…}

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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” starring Dorothea Spilger, Ann-Beth Solvang, Brett Sprague, Martha Eason, Ralitsa Ralinova, Florence Losseau, Melanie Lang, Kihun Yoon, Ks. Klaus Schneider, Ks. Armin Kolarczyk, Oğulcan Yılmaz, Ks. Konstantin Gorny, and Liangliang Zhao. Georg Fritzsch conducts the new production by Keith Warner. Performance Dates: {…}

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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2023-24 Season

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Germany’s Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the operatic and vocal performances. Premieres Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production by Thaddeus Strassberger. Yura Yang conducts. Premiere Date: Oct. 21, 2023 Strauss’ “Die schweigsame Frau” will be conducted by Georg Fritzsch and directed by Mariame Clément. Premiere Date: Dec. 19, 2023 Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will {…}

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BBC Cardiff Singer of World Announces 2023 Participants

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The BBC Cardiff Singer of the World has announced the 2023 participants. The competition will showcase 16 singers from around the world competing for the top prize. The singers are Simone McIntosh (Canada), HuHe Gala (China), Meigui Zhang (China), Julieth Lozano Rolong (Colombia), William Thomas (England), Adolfo Corrado (Italy), Beomjin Kim ( South Korea), Sungho Kim (South Korea), Beth Taylor {…}

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Operalia Announces 2022 Participants

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The Operalia Competition has announced the singers who will participate in this year’s Competition at the Latvian National Opera in Riga. This year’s participants come from the USA, Australia, Venezuela, Mexico, South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Latvia, Finland, Spain, Russia, Mongolia, Germany, China, Turkey, Belgium, and Armenia. Rolex will sponsor the 2022 edition, which will be held between Oct. 24 {…}

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Bryony Dwyer, Martina Welschenbach, Boaz Daniel & Rafael Fingerlos Lead Stadttheater Klagenfurt’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credit: Christian Kaufmann) The Stadttheater Klagenfurt has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purposes of this article we will focus on the vocal works only. Operas Wagner‘s “Die Walküre” opens the season. The opera stars Markus Marquardt as Wotan, Martina Welschenbach as Sieglinde, Magdalena Anna Hofmann in the role of Brünnhilde, and Julian Hubbard as Siegmund. The cast also includes {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko & Plácido Domingo Headline Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2019-20 Season

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2019-20 season, which is undeniably one of the biggest there is. It includes eight new productions to go along with a plethora of revivals. New Productions  Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen headline a new production of Korngold’s “Die Tote Stadt” with Simon Stone directing. Kirill Petrenko conducts the production which also stars  Andrzej Filonczyk, Jennifer Johnston, {…}