(Credit: tim osipov) Italy’s Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo has announced its 2022-23 season. The sole vocal performance of the season will be by Anna Netrebko who will present a recital of music by Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninoff. The soprano will perform alongside Elena Bashkirova at the historical Teatro Petrarca in Arezzo. Performance Date: Feb. 7, 2023 The season will also {…}
The 46th Annual L’Esprit de Noël Holiday Home Tour is set to return in-person after two years as a virtual event. This much-anticipated walking tour will be held on Nov. 18 and 19, 2022at the Glenmoor Country Club neighborhood. Co-Chairs Louise Atkinson and Katie Grassby, longtime Central City Opera Guild members, are expecting a big turn out this year. In {…}
The Garsington Opera has announced its 2023 season. The season opens with Rossini’s “Il barbiere di Siviglia“ with conductor Douglas Boyd condcuting Christopher Luscombe. The cast will include Andrew Stenson, Johannes Kammler, Katie Bray, Richard Burkhard, Callum Thorpe, and Josephine Goddard. Performance Dates: May 31-July 22, 2023 The company will also present Mozart’s “Mitridate, re di Ponto“ with Robert Murray, Elizabeth Watts, {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) Verdi’s “Don Carlo” is set to return to the Metropolitan Opera for nine performances in the four-act Italian version. The opera, which is set to be performed between Nov. 3 and Dec. 3, 2022 will star Russell Thomas in the title role. Interestingly, Thomas will sing “Don Carlo” at the Met for the first time, 17 years {…}
Mezzo-soprano Dara Savinova has joined the roster of Svanholm Artists Management. The mezzo is a former member of the International Opera Studio at Opernhaus Zürich and of the Salzburger Festspiele’s Young Artist Project and is a rising star. The Estonian mezzo-soprano is set to return to the Royal Swedish Opera during the 2023-24 season. During the 2021-22 season she performed {…}
The Staatsoper unter den Berlin has announced that Daniel Barenboim will miss his 80th birthday celebration. In a statement, the company said, “It is with great regret that Daniel Barenboim for health reasons has to cancel the concert planned on the day of his 80th birthday on November 15, together with Zubin Mehta and the Staatskapelle Berlin. We hope to {…}
Upon arrival in Latvia, baritone Vasily Sokolov was disqualified from the Operalia competition. Earlier this week, music critic Sergey Bulanov announced the disqualification via telegram and noted that Sokolov was not allowed to compete because of his service in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexandrov. Sokolov was the only Russian participant in this year’s Operalia {…}
Decca Classics has announced Jessye Norman – The Unreleased Masters. The new album will showcase never-before-heard recordings by the legendary soprano. The set includes an extraordinary performance of “Tristan und Isolde” with Ms. Norman performing the multiple roles of Isolde and Brangäne, Wagner and Strauss song cycles, and a live recording of an eclectic program of cantatas by Haydn, Berlioz, {…}
This week audiences will get a chance to hear complete recordings of many great operas rare and standard repertoire. Here is a look at the recordings you can not miss. Theodora Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, and John Chest star in Erato’s new release of Händel’s “Theodora.” The album features Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of the instrumentalists {…}
Beth Morrison Projects and Harlem Stage will team up to present “Song Cycles” on Oct. 28 and 29, 2022. The two showcases will feature new music by non-binary and women composers at Harlem Stage Gatehouse. First up on the program is Tamar-kali’s “Melanc’Holy Ghosts and Other Mothers,” a work featuring poems published between 1920 and 1926 by such writers as {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera will present a 2022 showcase of new vocal chamber music on Nov. 15, 2022 at the Pangea in New York City. The showcase will feature such artists as the FSO ensemble in collaboration with the Curiosity Cabinet. The program opens with the New York premiere of Paul David Thomas and Patti Eubanks Adams’ “Patti Rides the DART.” {…}
