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Simone McIntosh & Mario Rojas Announced Winners of Festival Napa Valley’s New Young Artist Initiative

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Festival Napa Valley has announced the launch of the Manetti Shrem Opera Program. The new initiative will nurture the careers of young singers through fully staged opera productions and recitals, a summer vocal conservatory, and a $10,000 Manetti Shrem Prize. The winners of the 2021 Prize include Mario Rojas and Simone McIntosh. “The Manetti Shrem Opera Program enables Festival Napa {…}
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Simone McIntosh & Zhengyi Bai Headline Schwabacher Recital Series

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(Credit: San Francisco Opera) The 37th Schwabacher Recital Series is set to continue on Wednesday, March 4 with a performance of Francisco Opera Adler Fellows Simone McIntosh and Zhengyi Bai. Th recital, set for San Francisco’s Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater, will explore love and heartbreak. McIntosh and Bai will be accompanied by Robert Mollicone on the piano with {…}
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Festival Napa Valley 2026 to Present World Premiere of ‘The Judgement of Paris’

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(Photo: Glodow Nead press) Festival Napa Valley celebrates its 20th anniversary July 4–19, 2026, featuring the world premiere of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s new opera, “The Judgement of Paris.” This opera is commissioned by the festival and includes conductor Kent Nagano and director Jean-Romain Vesperini, alongside a stellar cast including soprano Danielle De Niese, baritone Quinn Kelsey, {…}
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Margarita Gritskova, Veronika Rovná, & Samueol Park Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week audiences get to hear rare pieces by Massenet, and Donizetti as well as Ethel Smyth, Bartok and Mark Abel. Massenet: Songs With Orchestra II Hélène Guilmette, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Julien Henric, and Thomas Dolié lead an album cenetered on more than twenty mélodies {…}
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Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Heidi Stober, Amina Edris, Adela Zaharia, Brian Mulligan Headline San Francisco Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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(Photo: Hans Jörg Michel/Hamburg State Opera) San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026–27 season, the Company’s 104th. The season opens with Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra,” conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim in a new-to-San-Francisco-Opera production by Claus Guth. Baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat sings the title role, with Eleonora Buratto as Amelia, Christian Van Horn as Fiesco, and Joshua Guerrero as Gabriele {…}
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Renée Fleming, Danielle De Niese, Quinn Kelsey, Nicholas Phan Headline Festival Napa Valley 2026

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) Festival Napa Valley has announced its 2026 summer season, which runs from July 4–19, 2026. The season opens with Festival Live! Concerts, a series of daily performances showcasing Festival artists in rotating programs presented in partnership with the Frost School of Music’s Blackburn Music Academy at CIA at Copia. Performance Dates: July 4–18, 2026 Festival Napa {…}
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Festival Napa Valley Announces World Premiere of ‘The Judgment of Paris’

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Festival Napa Valley has announced the commissioning and world premiere of “The Judgment of Paris,” a new one-act opera by acclaimed composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. The work will debut on July 18, 2026, on the Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug Winery, as part of Festival Napa Valley’s landmark 20th Anniversary Season. It will mark the {…}
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Jacquelyn Wagner, Eduardo Aladrén, Ramona Zaharia, Maria Kataeva, Liana Aleksanyan & Alexey Zelenkov Lead Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s 2025-26 Season

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The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced its 2025-26 season. Premiere  Jacquelyn Wagner, John Matthew Myers, Simon Neal, Hans-Peter König, Anna Sophia Theil, Lavinia Dames, Riccardo Romeo, Henry Ross, Luke Stoker, and Žilvinas Miškinis star in Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Vitali Alekseenok and Harry Ogg conduct the concert performances.  Performance Dates: Sept. 10-Oct. 24, 2025 Antonino Fogliani conducts Donizetti’s “Prima La Mamma” {…}
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Nombulelo Yende, Kiandra Howarth, Jonathan McGovern, Caterina Marchesini & Marcela Rahal Lead Bühnen Bern’s 2025-26 Season

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The Bühnen Bern has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Andrea Sanguineti conducts Bellini’s “Norma” with Joseph Dahdah, Nombulelo Yende, William Meinert, and Simone McIntosh. Performance Date: August 30, 2025 Kiandra Howarth sings the title role of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” with Jonathan McGovern, Andeka Gorrotxategi, William Meinert, and Christian Valle. Alevtina Ioffe conducts the production by Anna Bergmann. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}

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