The Gran Teatre del Liceu has made a change to its 2022-23 season. The company has moved its “Winterreise” production, which was originally slated for a different season, to the second half of the upcoming season. The Schubert work will now be performed on March 23, 24, and 25, 2023. It will now be directed by Bárbara Lluch and will {…}
Photo: Peter Koutun The Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, Lyric Opera Stage Artists, and Ukrainian musicians presented a benefit concert, “We Stand with Ukraine,” at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Chicago on April 9, 2022. The benefit raised over $48,000, according to the chief organizer of the event, Principal Bassoon Preman Tilson. Half the proceeds are earmarked to assist refugee children {…}
A benefit concert for Ukraine, “Concert of Compassion,” will be held on May 9 at the historic Congregation Sherith Israel. The concert will be held by the Resonance Project and will be produced by Jonathan Dimmock and Lukáš Janata. Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will perform alongside award-winning composer and pianist Jake Heggie, musicians from the San Francisco Symphony, members of {…}
Opera Memphis and the University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music have announced the four finalists of the first Nuevas Canciones Vocal Competition. The jury has established that the four finalists are mezzo-soprano Brianna Reilly, lyric soprano Desiree Soto, baritone Sullivan Ojala Helmbolt, and baritone Carlos Romero. The final round will take place on April 30, 2022 at the Clark {…}
(credit: Bassel Jadaa) Gavriel Heine, a resident conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre at the Mariinsky Theatre, has resigned from his post in St. Petersburg. The conductor, who worked for the company for three decades, resigned on Saturday after a five minute conversation with his mentor Valery Gergiev. According to the New York Times, Heine said, “He was very nice to {…}
Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival will team up with Mostly Modern Projects to present “Kings, Giants & Robots.” The showcase will feature Victoria Bond’s puppet operetta “How Gulliver Returned Home in a Manner that was Very Not Direct” as well as Herschel Garfein’s “King of the River” and Robert Paterson’s one-act opera “The Companion.” The trilogy of works will {…}
On April 19, Dmitry Korchak will conduct the Moscow Virtuosi State Chamber Orchestra and Moscow Synodal Choir at the Moscow International Performing arts Center. The tenor turned conductor will lead the oratorio by Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), recreating the drama of the last days of Jesus Christ. The concert will include Pro-Putin soprano Hibla Gerzmava, Agunda Kulaeva, Alexei Tatarintsev, and Vasily {…}
In anticipation of the French election, many opera directors and companies are showing their support for Emmanuel Macron. In a petition on change.org, arts leaders are calling on their followers to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential run-off. Among the leaders from the opera world include Alexander Neef from the Paris Opéra, Louis Langrée from the Opéra Comique, Richard {…}
The Ukrainian ambassador to Austria, Wassyl Chymynez, is calling on Salzburg Festival to cancel the performances of conductor Teodor Currentzis and the MusicAeterna orchestra, which is funded by Putin-funded banks. The ambassador told the Kronen-Zeitung that a performance by the group would send “a very inhumane signal” and noted that Vladimir Putin knows how to “use art very cleverly.” He {…}
(Credit: Sabrina Ceballos) Verdi’s “Alzira” is likely the composer’s least-known opera. Its rarely staged or performed and it received mixed reviews when it first premiered in 1845. This week the Bilbao Opera is reviving the work in a co-production with the Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú and Opéra Royal Wallonie-Liège with well-known Verdi singers including soprano Carmen Solis. The Spanish {…}
(Credit: Courtesy of Carolina Herrera) San Francisco Opera Guild and Neiman Marcus San Francisco are set to present a luncheon and fashion show of the Carolina Herrera Pre-Fall and Fall-Winter 2022 Collections on May 11, 2022. The show will feature a special appearance by Carolina Herrera Creative Director Wes Gordon and will be co-chaired by Roman Gronkowski and Lisa Zabelle of San Francisco Opera {…}