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Clay Hilley, Sara Jakubiak, Gerald Finley, Chen Reiss & Marlis Petersen Lead London Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The London Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The season opens with Sir Antonio Pappano conducting a Bernstein and Copland program featuring Dame Felicity Palmer and Katharina Konradi. Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2025 Sir Simon Rattle conducts Janáček’s “The Makropulos Affair” with Marlis Petersen, Aleš Briscein, Jan Martiník, Svatopluk Semand Peter {…}
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Bregenz Festival 2026 Review: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček

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(Phot0: Bregenz Festival / Daniel Ammann) Leoš Janáček’s “The Excursions of Mr. Brouček” has long been overshadowed by “Jenůfa,” “Káťa Kabanová,” “The Cunning Little Vixen” and “The Makropulos Affair.” This curious, episodic satire has never fully secured its place in the repertoire, perhaps because it occupies an awkward territory between affectionate comedy, political allegory and biting social critique. Yet it {…}
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Three Choirs Festival Announces Worcester 2027 Program

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(Photo credit: Dale Hodgetts) The Three Choirs Festival releases the highlights of its Worcester 2027 season. The Festival runs July 24-31, 2027. Britten’s “War Requiem” is performed by soloists soprano Elizabeth Watts, tenor Peter Hoare, and baritone David Stout, with the Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra. Performance Date: July 24, 2027 The Three Cathedral Choirs present Handel’s “Four Coronation Anthems.” {…}
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Dame Sarah Connolly Headlines St. Endellion Summer Festival 2026

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The 2026 St Endellion Summer Festival schedule is announced. Here’s a look at the opera events. First up is “Choral Evensong,” featuring works by Charles Villiers Stanford, Joanna Forbes, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance Date: July 28, 2026 Roderick Williams, Rachel Nicholls, Joely Koos and Peter Hoare are soloists with the Truro Cathedral Choristers, and Festival Chorus and Orchestra. Paul {…}
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Alexia Voulgaridou, Christine Rice, Nardus Williams & Nathan Berg Lead Welsh National Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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The Welsh National Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. Puccini’s “La Bohème” will star Carlos Cardoso, Alexia Voulgaridou, Navasard Hakobyan, and Laura Lolita Perešivana. Corinna Niemeyer and Frederick Brown conduct. Performance Dates: Sept. 27, 2026–Nov. 26, 2026 Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” and Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” will be shown in a double bill. The operas will star Nathan Berg, Christine Rice, and {…}
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Clémentine Margaine, Constantin Trinks, Ian Bostridge, Lidia Fridman Headline Opéra de Lyon’s 2026-27 Season

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(Credit: Micheel Wats) The Opéra de Lyon has announced its 2026–2027 season. Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” will be conducted by Dmitry Matvienko in a new production directed by Laurent Pelly, with designs by Caroline Ginet. The cast includes Piotr Micinski, Lucie Roche, Damien Pass, Marc Mauillon, Gabrielle Philiponet, and Giulia Scopelliti. Performance Dates: Oct. 4–20, 2026 Lecocq’s “Madame {…}
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Cast Change: Tommi Hakala Steps into ‘Siegfried’ Production of the Royal Opera & Ballet Production

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The Royal Opera & Ballet has announced a cast change for its perfomance of “Siegfried” on March 21, 2026. The company said that Tommi Hakala will replace Christopher Maltman in the role of the Wanderder. Maltman also took to social media and said, “Sometimes, like the poor Wanderer above, events don’t unfold as you would like or as you expect. {…}
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Corinne Winters, Ryan Speedo Green, Federica Lombardi, Sara Jakubiak & Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” will be conducted by Andrea Battistoni. Leoncavallo’s work will star Corinne Winters, Riccardo Massi, Roman Burdenko, and Hubert Zapiór while Mascagni’s will star Raehann Bryce-Davis, SeokJong Baek, Enkelejda Shkoza, Roman Burdenko, and Maria Warenberg. Performance Dates: Sept. 5 – 23, 2026 Shostakovich’s “Cherry Town” will {…}
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Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Jamie Barton, Will Liverman & Gustavo Dudamel Among Grammy Nominees

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The Grammy nominations have been announced. Here are the vocal performances nominated: The Best Opera Recording nominees are Heggie’s “Intelligence” (Kwamé Ryan, Jamie Barton, J’Nai Bridges & Janai Brugger; Blanton Alspaugh, producer), Huang Ruo’s “An American Soldier” (Carolyn Kuan, conductor; Hannah Cho, Alex DeSocio, Nina Yoshida Nelsen & Brian Vu; Adam Abeshouse, Silas Brown & Doron Schachter, producers), Kouyoumdjian’s “Adoration” {…}

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