(Photo Credit: Jean-Baptiste Millot) In a striking counterpart to the shadowy, midnight Strozzi program just days prior, this afternoon concert at the Former Minorite Church of St. Salvator bathed the music of Luzzasco Luzzaschi in broad daylight—both literally and figuratively. Sunlight streamed through the high clerestory windows, casting a warm glow over the three elegantly dressed sopranos and onto the {…}
Les Talens Lyriques releases its 2025-26 season. Lully’s “Proserpine” opens the 2025 season. Marie Lys, Véronique Gens, Olivier Gourdy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Ambroisine Bré, Laurent Kilsby, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Nick Pritchard, Olivier Cesarini, and David Witczak make up the cast. They are joined by Chœur de Chambre de Namur led by Thibaut Lenaerts, and Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christophe {…}
(Photo credit Dave Pearson Photography) During the pandemic, Virginia Opera (VO) made plans to celebrate their fiftieth season, in 2024-25, exploring potential subjects for a commission. In recent talkbacks and receptions, Artistic Director Adam Turner emphasized that the company desired a Virginia-based story for this occasion. Ultimately they settled on that of Richard and Mildred Loving, the appellants in the {…}
The Teatro Carlo Felice is set to open a production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” on June 13. The opera, which will run through June 22, will be conducted by Giancarlo Andretta and directed by Daniele Abbado. The production will include set designs by Lele Luzzati, costumes by Santuzza Calì, choreography by DEOS, and lighting by Luciano Novelli. The cast will include Antonino Arcilesi and Giovanni Augelli {…}
Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) has announced its 2025–26 season. Artistic Director Michael Bronfman said, “In times of crisis, BASS has always doubled down on the core belief that the experience of sharing something expressive face-to-face with others is not a luxury but a fiercely urgent necessity. We will not be silenced and we will not slow down.” The season {…}
（Photo Credit: Step by Step Productions） The 40th Regensburg Early Music Festival concluded with a gesture as grand as its milestone year. A performance of Alessandro Striggio’s “Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno”—a 40-part polyphonic mass—transcended the bounds of concert and became a revived rite. Long queues stretched down the street outside St. Blasius Church, as festivalgoers—some wheeling suitcases—gathered as {…}
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season attendance dropped in the spring portion, falling below projections. According to the AP News, the company’s season sold 72 percent of capacity, matching the 2023-24 season. That was three percent down from its 75 percent projection from the winter. In February, the Met reported that the first half of the season had seen 70 percent {…}
Opera Italiana is in the Air has canceled its previously programmed performance for Sunday, June 16, 2025. The showcase, which was set to take place at the Lincoln Memorial, will no longer take place due to weather conditions and extensive road closures in the area. Instead, the event will be live streamed from 6:30- 8 p.m. local time. The performance {…}
（Photo Credit: Hanno Meier) Inside the austere, echoing stone of Regensburg’s 12th-century Romanesque Schottenkirche, Barbara Strozzi’s music found a space as resonant and complex as the woman herself. The Hathor Consort, directed by Romina Lischka, and sopranos Dorothee Mields and Hana Blažíková transformed the church’s cool stillness into a charged atmosphere of intimacy and theatrical depth. They allowed her music {…}
（Photo Credit：Sim Canetty-Clarke） In the sombre setting of St. Blasius Church, the Tenebrae Choir—fourteen singers under the direction of Nigel Short—restored clarity, transparency, and delicacy to the music of Palestrina. In contrast to the grandeur and lush resonance of the Dom’s opening concert one day earlier, this smaller-scale a cappella program allowed every line of Palestrina’s polyphony to emerge with {…}
(Photo Credit: Monika Rittershaus) At the 2025 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, “Hotel Metamorphoses” emerged as an ambitious new opera project — a contemporary reworking of the Baroque pasticcio format that splices myth, music, and modernity into an unlikely unity. Conceived over three years of development by director Barrie Kosky in collaboration with Cecilia Bartoli, the production draws from five mythological episodes {…}