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Catapult Opera to Throw Launch Party for Release of PENTATONE’s ‘La Ville Morte’ Recording

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Catapult Opera will host a release party on Jan. 14, 2026, for its new album of Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” at Cary Hall at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a reception, followed by a musical program at 6:15 p.m. featuring soprano Melissa Harvey and tenor Joshua Dennis, {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘La ville morte’

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Is it mere coincidence that Nadia Boulanger’s “La ville morte” and Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt” fixate so obsessively on the past? In both works, the “dead city” is less a place than a psychological condition. Yet whereas Korngold’s necrophilia is filtered through Freudian “psychologie pathologique,” Boulanger’s figures inhabit a Symbolist world of ancestral trauma and fatality. “La ville morte” reads {…}

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Greek National Opera to Present Greek Premiere of ‘La Ville Morte’

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The Greek National Opera will present the Greek premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” this January. The production, which will be presented on the Alternative Stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, will be showcased in co-production with Catapult Opera.  The work, which was scheduled to premiere in 1914 in Paris, was never staged due to {…}

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Catapult Opera Gives American Premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s Only Opera, ‘La ville morte’

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(Photo credit: ©Sophie von Hellermann) Catapult Opera is set to give the American premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s opera “La Ville Morte.” With a libretto by Gabriele d’Annunzio from his play of the same name, “La Ville Morte” is a tale of “suppressed lust and taboo turned lethal, the prisons of other people’s objectifying desires, and the liberatory potential of creativity.” {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Joan Sutherland, Katherine Jolly, Mirjam Mesak & David Butt Philip Lead New CD & DVD Releases

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Welcome back for the CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. The New Year will continue to surprise audiences especially with new compilations from Beth Morrison Projects and Decca Classics which releases a number of recordings by legendary Joan Sutherland. There is also a world premiere recording of Nadia Boulanger’s opera. Here is a look at some of {…}

IndieOpera

Catapult Opera & In Series to Showcase Stradella’s ‘San Giovanni Battista’

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Catapult Opera will present the American stage premiere of Stradella’s “San Giovanni Battista,” in co-production with Washington D.C.’s In Series. The showcase, set for June 11 – 13, 2025 at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, NY, will be conducted by Neal Goren and directed by Timothy Nelson. The wok explores the story of Salome and John the Baptist, which {…}

IndieOpera

Valley of the Moon Music Festival Unveils 2025 Slate

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Sonoma, CA-based Valley of the Moon Music Festival has announced its 2025 slate, set for this September. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. First up is “Fanny and Felix Mendelssoh: A Musical Family,” which will include works by Bach and the Mendelssohns. Performance Date: July 12, 2025 Next up is “Nadia Boulanger: 20th Century Influencer,” which will {…}

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Catapult Opera Launches New Initiatives to Re-Imagine Opera for Future

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Catapult Opera has announced several initiatives to alter the face of opera in the United States. In a press release unveiling its mission, the organization offered up four new programs that it intends to implement to re-imagine opera. “We believe that the American opera industry, as we have known it, is no longer sustainable,” say the opening lines of Catapult {…}

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Davinia Rodriguez, Sabine Devieilhe, Simon Keenlyside Headline La Monnaie’s 2020-21 Season

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La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, Belgium has unveiled its 2020-21 season which features a number of unique operas, concerts, and recitals. Opera The opera season kicks off with the world premiere of Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s “The Time of our Singing.” The opera stars Claron McFadden, Mark. S. Doss, Peter Coleman-Wright, Levy Sekgapane, Peter Brathwaite, Abigail {…}