Caroline Taylor to Headline Hurn Court Opera’s ‘La Traviata’

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Dorset-based arts charity Hurn Court Opera is set to present “La Traviata.” Caroline Taylor leads the cast as Violetta, with Sam Britner as Alfredo and Philip Kalmanovitch as Giorgio. The fully staged production features orchestra conducted by Lynton Atkinson and is sung in Italian with English surtitles. Joy Robinson directs a production that sets the work in 1930s Paris. “Setting {…}

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Hurn Court Opera to Showcase Costumes by Arts University Bournemouth Students in ‘La Cenerentola’

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Hurn Court Opera is set to present “La Cenerentola” from April 14-18, 2025 at the Theatre Royal Winchester. For this production, the company teamed up with costume students at Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) to create “Bridgerton Style dresses.” “This was a fantastic opportunity for our Costume students. To get real-life experience, to make these stunning Regency dresses for the prestigious {…}

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Ellen Pearson Wins 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year Competition

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(Photo credit: Lara Johnson-Perkins) Mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson has won first prize in the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year Competition. Pearson took home the Nigel Beale Grange Festival First Prize as well as the Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize. Coming in second place was baritone Stephen Whitford. The baritone also received the Wendy Blamire Award for outstanding linguistic and {…}

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Alkemie to Premiere Queer Chamber Opera ‘Eleanor’

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Alkemie will premiere “Eleanor,” a new queer chamber opera by ensemble core-member Niccolo Seligmann, at the New Stage Performance Space on the Upper West Side on April 24 and 25. The semi-staged work centers on Eleanor Rykener, a gender-nonconforming person arrested in London in 1394 while presenting as a woman. The title role will be created by non-binary soprano Elisse {…}

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Armand Rabot Joins Roster of Askonas Holt for Management

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Baritone Armand Rabot has joined the roster of Askonas Holt for worldwide management. He will be managed at Askonas Holt by Vincent Turp and Dominic Domingo. The British-Sri Lankan baritone is currently a member of the Opernstudio at the Bayerische Staatsoper following his time at the Académie at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Young Singers’ Project at the Salzburger Festspiele {…}

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Bundeswettbewerb Gesang Announces 2024 Winners

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The Bundeswettbewerb Gesang has announced the 2024 winners. Manuel Winckhler won the first prize in the opera/operetta category. The bass-baritone is in the midst of performances of “Die Zauberflöte” at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He will also headline Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Berlin Philharmonic under Howard Griffiths at the end of the month. Meanhile Gaja Napast won the second {…}

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Benjamin Appl, Helen Charlston, Roderick Williams, & Lotte Betts-Dean Among Performers in Oxford International Song Festival 2025

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The Oxford International Song Festival has announced its line up for 2025. This article only features classical vocal concerts. Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Sholto Kynoch open the festival with a concert highlighting the works of Franz Schubert. Performance Date: October 10, 2025 Baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform a small selection of songs in “Song Sofa.” This {…}

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Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

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Photo: Maria Baranova Prototype Festival presented “Adoration” at New York City’s The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on January 12th, 2024. It was an innovative opera, featuring both voices, an amplified string quartet, and technical sound engineering, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. This world premiere, shockingly timely, challenged audience members to examine bias while {…}

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Opera Meets Film: How David Cronenberg & David Henry Hwang’s ‘M. Butterfly’ Subverts Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ & Explores Deceptive Reveries

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What would you do, say, and believe for love, and most importantly, what would you ignore for the sake of love? Such standardized questions seem to permeate the fabric of the operatic world from time immemorial to the present, and the well is not showing signs of running dry anytime soon. But we must ask a second and more important {…}

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