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Liv Redpath, Michael Sumuel & Rafael Payare Lead San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The San Diego Symphony has announced its 2025-26 season. In a statement, Martha Gilmer, President and CEO of the San Diego Symphony said, “Now that we have been able to experience the wonderful acoustic of our renovated Jacobs Music Center, it was a great joy to imagine our second season in this marvelous hall. In what was the Fox Movie Theatre, a {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Rafael Payare on his Big Dreams for the San Diego Symphony

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Rafael Payare dreams big. The Venezuelan conductor arrived in San Diego during the 2019-20 season ready to make his mark with the orchestra and to establish it as one of the leading American orchestras in the world. But that dream was slowed down in March 2020 when the pandemic struck. But it didn’t stop the conductor from creating. During that {…}
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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Appoints Rafael Payare as New Music Director

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(Credit: Henry Fair) Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has announced the appointment of Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare its new Music Director. Payare will start his five-year tenure during the 2022-23 season. The Venezuelan conductor will replace the famed conductor Kent Nagano, who has held the position since 2006. Payare graduated from the famous musical education program “El Sistema.” He won the {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2024-25 Review: Turandot

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At the risk of repeating myself, opera should be all about the music and the voice. If I’m ever asked to quantify that statement, I readily proffer “Turandot” in support of my assertions. For here is a ridiculous, cruel, convoluted tale that is impossible to like and grasp, perpetrated by a pair of unpleasant, thoroughly dislikeable characters with, were it {…}
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Caramoor Festival Announces 2025 Season

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The Caramoor Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here are the vocal performances. Rafael Payare conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Gabriella Reyes, Tamara Mumford, Viktor Antipenko, and Joseph Parrish. Performance Date: June 21, 2025 Telemann’s “Pimpinone & Ino” will be performed by Amanda Forsythe, Danielle Reutter-Harrah, and Christian Immler. The Boston Early Music Festival accompanies. {…}
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Karen Cargill Among Soloists for San Diego Symphony’s 2025 Winter/Spring Season

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The San Diego Symphony has announced the concerts for its spring/winter 2025 season for the Jacobs Center. For this article, we will focus on the vocal performances. The only vocal performance during the season will see conductor Rafael Payare team up with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill for Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The concert will showcase Cargill’s debut with the orchestra, The {…}
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Bravo! Vail Music Festival Announces 2025 Season

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The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced its 38th Season. Here is the sole vocal performance for the season. The New York Philharmonic is set to perform the “Four Last Songs” with Miah Persson as the soloist and Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting. The program also includes music by Julia Wolfe and Sibelius. Performance Date: July 19, 2025 The season will include {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Diego Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 Review: Welcome Home

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(Credit: San Diego Symphony) On Sept. 28, the San Diego Symphony opened its 2024-25 season with a concert titled “Welcome Home.” The special evening marked the orchestra’s return to its home, the newly redesigned Jacobs Center. The hall, which took four years to renovate, featured vivid changes from its cool blue/green chairs to a more natural curve and slope for {…}
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Sondra Radvanovsky, Lise Davidsen, Juan Diego Flórez, Ying Fang Headline Royal Opera House’s 2024-25 Cinema Season

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The Royal Opera and Ballet has announced its 2024-25 cinema season. Our focus will be on the opera showcases. “Opera is perhaps the most visceral and emotionally-charged artform, and I am so glad that our cinema audiences will be able to experience our work with us this Season, particularly with three live opera broadcasts. With an extraordinary group of cast {…}

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