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Boston Early Music Festival 2023 Review: The Dragon of Wantley

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Credit: Kathy Wittman It might be ingenuous to say, but in one’s opinion any opera that features a dragon singing a long melisma on the word “whore,” especially when it follows the ominous words “son of a,” is an unforgettable piece of theater. “The Dragon of Wantley” is based on the old legend that a dragon roamed South Yorkshire, a {…}
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Boston Early Music Festival Unveils 2023-24 Season

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Boston Early Music Festival has unveiled its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Ensemble I Gemelli under tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro will lead “A Room of Mirrors: Music by d’India, Marini, Frescobaldi, Calestani, and Gregori.” Performance Date: Nov. 18, 2023 Next up is a presentation of John Frederick Lampe’s “The Dragon of Wantley.” Paul O’Dette and {…}
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Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Early Music Festival Team Up for Festival 1750

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Three Boston-based organizations are joining forces with WCRB Classical Radio Boston to put together Festival 1750, a 10-day broadcast music festival. The showcase, which kicks off on April 20, 2020, features Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Early Music Festival. “As WCRB continues to explore ways to keep our audience and Boston’s vibrant music community connected, we {…}
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Celebrity Series of Boston 2024 In Review: Anthony Roth Costanzo & Bryan Wagorn

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  Anthony Roth Costanzo is currently one of the most popular countertenors. There are more than a few good reasons why, including his powerful voice which resonates well in the Metropolitan Opera and the London Coliseum, his good impresario skills, his activism especially for LGBTQ+ causes which is meaningful to countless young musicians and operagoers. Not that the Operatic world {…}
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John Holiday to Deliver Keynote Address at Early Music America’s 2023 Summit

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(Credit: Shervin Lainez) Early Music America‘s first in-person Summit will be held in Boston from Oct. 24 -26, 2023. The Summit, themed “Making Connections,” will highlight the community’s cultural diversity and promote sharing and learning. Countertenor John Holiday will deliver the keynote address on Tuesday, October 24th, and discuss his career with EMA Executive Director David McCormick, which spans modern {…}
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Berkshire Opera Festival 2022 Review: Three Decembers

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Photos by Matt Madison-Clark This review is of the July 23, 2022, Berkshire Opera Fest Performance “At the heart of what we do is produce the greatest opera at the highest level. The Berkshires is a magical place. There was a void of opera, and so here we are,” Jonathon Loy, Berkshire Opera Fest’s (BOF) Co-founder and Director of Production, {…}
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Aspect Chamber Music Series to Showcase ‘Winterreise’

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The Aspect Chamber Music Series is set to present Schubert’s “Winterreise” on Dec. 8, 2021. The showcase, which will take place at the Bohemian National Hall in New York City, will feature baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer. There will also be an illustrated talk by Christopher Gibbs. Duncan has performed all around the world with appearances at the {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2021 Review: Boris Goudenow

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) In 1874 Mussorgsky’s ‘Boris Godunov’ received its premiere at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre. Yet, he was not the first to write an opera of that name, 164 years earlier in 1710 Johann Mattheson completed his version of “Boris Goudenow,” but for reasons which are now unclear it was not performed during the composer’s lifetime, and ended up {…}
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Q&A : Mezzo-Soprano & Composer Lisa Neher on Creating the One Voice Project Micro Opera Festival

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(Photo credit: Alisabeth Von Presley) For opera artists around the world, COVID-19 was a major blow. Not only did they lose the opportunity to work, but in most cases, they have often been the last to get the chance to make their return. While several industries around the world have opened and closed repeatedly with the differing waves of the {…}

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