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News, Season Announcement

Asmik Grigorian, Rolando Villazón, Xabier Anduaga, Jonathan Tetelamn, Aigul Akhmetshina, Anastasia Bartoli, Camilla Nylund, Clay Hilley & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2025-26 Season

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(Credit: Deutsche Oper) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Detlev Glanert ‘s “Die drei Rätsel” will be conducted by Dominic Limburg and directed by Brigitte Dethier. The production will star Martina Baroni, Philipp Jekal, Chance Jonas-O’Toole, Joel Allison, Padraic Rowan, Maria Vasilevskaya, and Alexandra Oomens. Performance Dates: Oct. 11, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026 Sir Donald Runnicles will {…}

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Clay Hilley, Chen Reiss, Elza van der Heever & Brian Mulligan to Feature in Rotterdam Orchestra’s 2025-26 Season

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The Rotterdam Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. The season opens with Dalia Stasevska conducting Aphrodite Patoulidou in a program of music by Meredith, Sibelius, Berio, Patoulidou, Sibelius, and Respighi. Performance Dates: Sept. 12, 2025 Lahav Shani conducts an all-Bruckner program, including his Te Deum and Symphony No.4 with Elza van der {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Pretty Yende, Marina Rebeka Headline Théâtre des Champs-Élysées’s 2025-26 Season

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The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Productions  Jakob Lehmann conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” in a production by Silvia Costa. Benjamin Bernheim, Viktoria Karkacheva, Christian Van Horn, and Thomas Dolié star. Performance Dates: Nov. 3-15, 2025 Offenbach’s “Robinson Crusoé” will be conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Laurent Pelly. Lawrence Brownlee, Julie Fuchs, Laurent {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Diana Damrau, Rolando Villazon, Asmik Grigorian, Ludovic Tézier, Jonathan Tetelman, Serena Sáenz & Sondra Radvanovsky Lead Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2025-26 Season

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres Maurizio Benini conducts Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a new production by Barbara Wysocka. Bekhzod Davronov, Igor Golovatenko, Ludovic Tézier, Serena Sáenz, Nadine Sierra, Riccardo Fassi, and Elmina Hasan star. Performance Dates: March 7-24, 2026 & July 28 & 31, 2026 Lotte de Beer directs a new production of Gounod’s “Faust” with Jonathan {…}

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Bayerische Staatsoper Announces Cast Change for ‘Die Liebe der Danae’

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a cast change for the premiere of “Die Liebe der Danae” on Feb. 7, 2025. The company said that Manuela Uhl will sing the role of Danae, replacing an ill Malin Byström.  Uhl has performed at the Theater Kiel, Semperoper in Dresden, Staatsoper Hamburg, Oper Frankfurt, Theater an der Wien, De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Ring Cycle for 2025-26 Season

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(Credit: Bernd Uhlig) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced that it will present the Ring Cycle during the 2025-26 season. The company said that it will present full cycles from May 16 to May 31, 2026. There will be two cycles featuring Stefan Herheim’s production. Among the cast are Ya-Chung Huang (Mime), Iain Paterson and Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Annika {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Frederica Von Stade, Philippe Jaroussky, Franco Corelli, Asmik Grigorian & Nicole Car Lead Cyber Monday New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. It’s about the holidays so this week there is a new Christmas album as well as a final recording by one of the great mezzos of her time, a re-release of a classic recording, a new recording of Massenet’s work, and many baroque {…}

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Piotr Beczala, Camilla Nylund, Catherine Foster, Klaus Florian Vogt, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Bayreuth Festival’s 2025 Seasn

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The Bayreuth Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. The season opens with “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” starring Michael Spyres, Georg Zeppenfeld, Christina Nilsson, Christa Mayer, and Matthias Stier. Daniele Gatti conducts and Matthias Davids directs. Performance Dates: July 25 – August 22, 2025 Valentin Schwarz’s “Das Rheingold” will be conducted by Simone Young and features Tomas Konieczny, Olafur Sigurdarson, Daniele Behle, {…}