Teatro São Luiz 2024: Felizmente Há Luar

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(Photo credit: ©EGEAC, José Frade – photographer ) An extraordinary new opera premiered last week at Lisbon’s historic Teatro São Luiz, called “Felizmente Há Luar!” (loosely translatable as “fortunately the moonlight still shines”) by the prolific Portuguese composer Alexandre Delgado. Commissioned by the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, this was the most significant national opera premiere in recent years, and perhaps the {…}

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OPERAFEST Lisboa Announces 2022 Festival Season ‘Destiny in Vertigo’

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OPERAFEST Lisboa has unveiled its third edition, under the theme of “Destiny in Vertigo.” The festival opens with Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.” The work, which will be conducted by Jan Wierzba and directed by Sandra Faleiro, will star Carlos Cardoso, Catarina Molder, and Christian Luján. Performance Dates: August 19 -26, 2022 Next up is “American Evening: ‘Labirynth’ and ‘A {…}

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Canto Latino Cyberchallenge 2021 Announces Prize Winners

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Canto Latino Cyberchallenge 2021 has announced the winners of this year’s competition. The winner for Best Performance went to Asael Cuesta, while Best Singer was awarded to Elena Villalón. Sishel Claverie took home Best Video, and Jean Bernard Cerin won Best Performance of a Folk Song. In the Best Performance Art Song category, Ricardo López was the winner. Martín Samuel {…}

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Canto Latino Cyberchallenge Announces 2021 Finalists

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Canto Latino Cyberchallenge has announced the finalists for its 2021 competition. The organization announced its finalists across several categories including Best Singer, Best Performance, Best Video, Best Pianist, Best Performance Art Song, Best Performance Ecuadorian Song, Best Performance of a Folk Song, and the Casa de la Música Debut Recital Prize. Best Video nominees include Asael Cuesta, Kevin Guzman, Eugenia {…}

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Ian Bostridge & The Orlando Consort Highlight Festival de Musica Antigua de Sevilla’s 2020 Season

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The Festival de Musica Antigua de Sevilla has announced its 2020 season celebrating its 37th season. For this article we will only focus on the vocal performances. “Claroscuro – La increíble historia de Juan Latino” is set to star Julie Vachon, Francisco de Paula Sánchez, Enrique Pastor, and Sofía Alegre. Performance Dates: March 14, 2020 Ian Bostridge and pianist Juan {…}

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Nino Machaidze & Gregory Kunde Headline Teatro De la Maestranza’s 2019-20 Season

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The Teatro de la Maestranza has announced its 2019-20 season, featuring four operatic productions and numerous recitals and concerts. Opera Carlos Chausson, Joan Martín-Royo, Anicio Zorzi Giustaniani, Sara Blanch, and Francisco Escala star in Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale.” Corrado Rovaris conducts the production by Laurent Pelly. Performance Dates: Oct. 12-19, 2019 Saint-Saëns’ “Samson et Dalila” follows with Gregory Kunde and Nancy Fabiola Herrera starring {…}

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Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

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Yes, it’s that time of the year where we wax poetic about transformative experiences we have had over the course of the last 300 or so days. Sometimes we curate these experiences as rankings to fuel some individual emotions, and at other moments we simply do what we are doing with this piece – let a few different people chip {…}

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 – Part 4: 12 Composers With Impact in the Opera World

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It is Hispanic Heritage month! The Latin American community has, particularly in recent years, been a major boon to the opera world, providing it with great singers and composers. This week, as part of a weekly series to celebrate the Hispanic culture and its influence on the opera world, we will turn to the great opera composers from Latin America. {…}

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Teatro São Luiz 2024: Felizmente Há Luar

OPERAFEST Lisboa Announces 2022 Festival Season ‘Destiny in Vertigo’

Canto Latino Cyberchallenge 2021 Announces Prize Winners

Canto Latino Cyberchallenge Announces 2021 Finalists

Ian Bostridge & The Orlando Consort Highlight Festival de Musica Antigua de Sevilla’s 2020 Season

Nino Machaidze & Gregory Kunde Headline Teatro De la Maestranza’s 2019-20 Season

Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 – Part 4: 12 Composers With Impact in the Opera World