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News, Season Announcement

Aundi Marie Moore, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Andres Acosta & Danielle Talamantes Lead National Philharmonic’s 2026-27 Season

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The National Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are vocal performances. Daniel Hege conducts soprano Danielle Talamantes in music by Joan Tower, Samuel Barber, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Arturo Márquez. Performance Date: Nov. 7, 2026 Anthony Blake Clark conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists Sarah Hayashi, Lucia Bradford, Allan Palacios Chan, and Edmund Milly. Performance Date: Dec. 18 & 19, {…}

News, Season Announcement

Anastasia Bartoli, Günther Groissböck, Carlo Vistoli Max Emanuel Cencic, Ambur Braid, Vera-Lotte Boecker & Julia Lezhneva Lead Theater an der Wien’s 2026-27 Season

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The Theater an der Wien has announced its 2026-27 season. Christina Pluhar conducts Cavalli’s “La Calisto” with Stefan Herheim directing. Vera-Lotte Boecker, Milan Siljanov, Luciana Mancini, Arnaud Gluck, Giuseppina Bridelli, Marcel Beekman, Renato Dolcini, Jake Arditti, Juan Sancho, and João Fernandes star. Performance Dates: Sept. 6-28, 2026 Luciana Mancini, Eszter Vörös, and Éva Gárdos perform Corazon Abierto featuring Tangos. Performance Date: {…}

Reviews

Barockwerk Hamburg 2026 Review: Pharao Tubaetes

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(Photo: Valentin Daniel Preissler) The annals of Baroque opera are filled with lost masterpieces—works that once dazzled European courts only to be silenced by shifting musical fashions. While the period ensemble Barockwerk Hamburg performs only a few times a year, their contribution to resurrecting rare Baroque gems is peerless. They have become the primary champions of Carl Heinrich Graun, an {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2025 Review: Il Giustino

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) Each year, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival presents its Oper: Jung, an opera performed by singers in the early stages of their careers, who recently made strong impressions at the festival’s Cesti competition. It is an event that rarely disappoints. Not only are the productions of a very high standard, but it is also exciting to watch {…}

News, Season Announcement

National Philharmonic Announces 2025-26 Season

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The National Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season, which will be performed at Strathmore. Here is a look at the vocal performances for the season. Eugene Rogers conducts J.S. Bach’s Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us. The concert will also feature the Washington Chorus. Performance Date: Oct. 25, 2025 Handel’s Messiah with Anthony Blake Clark conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists Sarah Hayashi, {…}

News

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces 2025 Lineup

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Details of the 2025 Innsbruck Festival of Early Music have been made public. For the purposes of this article only vocal performances are featured. Concerts First Prize winner of the 2020 Cesti International Singing Competition Margherita Maria Sala performs works by Galuppi, Marcello, Vivaldi, Ristori, and Handel. Sala is accompanied by the Ensemble Locatelli led by Thomas Chigioni. Performance Date: {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Michael Fabiano, Sonya Yoncheva, Deborah Nansteel, Aleksandra Kurzak Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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There’s no doubt that it hasn’t been an easy week in the opera world. With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the world at alarming rates, companies across Europe have entered a second lockdown, ending what many hoped would be a continuation of performances throughout the 2020-21 season. But it has not quite worked out that way. As such, online broadcasts {…}

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Emily Edmonds & Karen Cargill Headline VOPERA’s ‘L’Enfant et les Sortilèges’

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VOPERA: The Virtual Opera has announced that it will present Maurice Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges” on Nov. 16, 2020. The performance will feature the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Lee Renolds. The opera will star Emily Edmonds in the title role alongside Karen Cargill as Maman and Michael Sumuel as Un Arbre. Other cast members include Marcus {…}

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Wallis Giunta, Paolo Fanale, Andrea Carroll Headline Top 6 Operas To See This Weekend – North America

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This weekend is packed with so much opera that we had to make an exception and add in one extra recommendation for fans around North America. Don Giovanni – Bare Opera, New York Malena Dayen is set to bring a unique angle to Mozart and Da Ponte’s classic, using video cameras attached to performers that will allow unique perspectives of {…}