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Philadelphia Orchestra to Rename Verizon Hall to Marian Anderson Hall

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The Philadelphia Orchestra President and CEO Matías Tarnopolsky and Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has announced that Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts will be rededicated as Marian Anderson Hall in honor of the legendary contralto, civil rights icon, and Philadelphian. The news was announced on the day after what would have been Anderson’s 127th {…}

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Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, & Wladimir Rosinskij Present ‘Nomads-Oasis’

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Richard Cameron-Wolfe, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, and Wladimir Rosinskij have teamed up to present “Nomads-Oasis” on August 6, 2022. The showcase will showcase several U.S. premieres and world premieres. The program features the debut of Castilla-Ávila’s piece for soprano, guitar, and piano entitled “True love is not a flower;” the U.S. premiere of “Keinem, Junge, lass dir reden” by Rosinskij; and the {…}

Reviews

Opera Australia 2024 Review: La Traviata

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(Photo: Keith Saunders) Sarah Giles’s production of “La traviata,” currently playing at Sydney Opera House, comes across as a very intelligent piece of theater. Already seen at Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia and West Australian Opera, this production opened Opera Australia’s 2024 summer season on January 2. Much of its effectiveness was achieved through devices that increased our {…}

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Opera Australia 2023 Review: Adriana Lecouvreur

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Photo: Guy Davies It is common for a theater to wait until “a suitable break” in a performance to admit latecomers. Still, it’s a shame some of the audience for Opera Australia‘s matinee performance of “Adriana Lecouvreur” at Sydney Opera House on Feb 25th missed out on the great Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho’s ‘Io son l’umile ancella.’ This aria, touted {…}

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Opera Australia Review 2023: La Bohème

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(Photo credit: Prudence Upton) The stories on which Puccini based his much-loved opera “La Bohème” (Henri Murger’s “Tales from Bohemian Life”) were set in Paris in the 1830s. Puccini and his librettists distilled from Murger’s diverse and diffuse vignettes of life amid the crowded echelons of poorer Parisian society a throughline of love and dying among four young struggling artist-friends {…}

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Opera Australia 2022 Review: Attila

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Photo credit: Prudence Upton Verdi’s “Attila” of 1846 could be characterized as “cabelettismo,” in reference to the quantity it contains of those brisk, strutting, decisive passages (“cabaletti”) that capped off vocal numbers in early 19th century Italian opera. There could be an implication here that the 32 year-old Verdi relied on this device rather too much, and that this prevalence {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Jessica Pratt, Ermonela Jaho & Ferruccio Furlanetto Lead Opera Australia’s 2023 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2023 season which will mark the 13th and final season of Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini’s tenure. Sydney Summer Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will be conducted by Guillaume Tourniaire in Sir David McVicar’s production. The opera will star Ukranian baritone Andrei Kymach in the titular role, Israeli bass Yuri Kissin as Leporello, and Sophie Salvesani as Donna {…}

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Opera Australia 2022 Review: The Marriage of Figaro

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Photo Credit: Prudence Upton Opera Australia’s latest production for their 2022 summer season, a revival by Andy Morton of David McVicar’s 2015 production of “The Marriage of Figaro,” opened at Sydney Opera House on January 27th which, according to Opera Australia’s publicity, is Mozart’s 266th birthday. January 27th is also the day after Australia Day, the annual holiday which commemorates {…}

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Yonghoon Lee, Olga Peretyatko, Leah Crocetto, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Lise Lindstrom Headline Opera Australia’s 2022 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2022 season. Sydney Season First up in the summer season will be “La Bohème” directed by Gale Edwards and conducted by Lorenzo Passerini and Paul Fitzsimon. The opera will star Valeria Sepe, Kang Wang, Julie Lea Goodwin, Haotian Qi, Shane Lowrencev, and Richard Anderson. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2021 – Feb. 4, 2022 Next up {…}