Soprano Alexandra Flood is set to present a preview performance for the Queensland Art Song Festival. The soprano will appear in recital on August 7, 2022 at the Queensland Conservatorium at 5 p.m. The event will be free to all audiences. The Queensland Art Song Festival is set to inaugurate in winter of 2023 aimed at promoting art song performance {…}
The Washington Concert Opera has unveiled its lineup for the fall Gala. The performance, which is set for Oct. 12, 2022, at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., will star soprano Tamara Wilson and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel. Wilson is an internationally renowned soprano who has appeared with a number of major companies including the Canadian Opera Company, the English National {…}
Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Italy has announced its 2022-23 Season. The season opens with Puccini’s “La bohème” starring Valeria Sepe, Jessica Nuccio, and Giorgio Berrugi. Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the production by Mario Pontiggia. Performance Dates: Nov. 26-Dec. 4, 2022 Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” will get a new production with Desirée Rancatore, Luca Bruno, Gabriele Sagona, and Cristin {…}
The Board of Directors of the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, has appointed Greg Holland as the new president and CEO of the organization. Holland has served as an arts executive, theater manager, revenue generator and negotiator for over 25 years. “I am eager to join the effort to master plan the Straz Center. It has {…}
The Rhode Island Philharmonic has announced an Interim Principal Conductor. Tania Miller will take the position following the passing of Maestro Bramwell Tovey. Her commitment was secured in early July at Tovey’s invitation and with the full support of the organization’s board, management, and orchestra committee. The conductor will lead three concerts on the season and assume off-stage duties as {…}
Yusif Eyvazov has signed with Arcadia Artists for worldwide general management. Eyvazov has performed at some of the greatest opera houses in the world including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Vienna State Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Berlin State Opera, Royal Opera House in London, Paris National Opera, Liceu Opera Barcelona, and The Metropolitan Opera, among others. During the 2022-23 {…}
The Bayreuth Festival has confirmed that Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny will perform in the opening night of “Siegfried.” The company said, “After yesterday’s stage accident, Tomasz Konieczny is on the road to recovery and will sing the Wanderer as planned for tomorrow’s premiere of ‘Siegfried.’ We would like to take this opportunity to expressly thank Michael Kupfer-Radecky, who brilliantly saved {…}
During a rehearsal of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at the Salzburg Festival, a female extra was seriously injured when she fell off the top stage level. In an official statement the festival said, ‘There has been an accident at work, that has also been reported and is regrettable. In the ‘Magic Flute,’ which is a very complex stage design, we {…}
Tenor Fabio Sartori will headline “Tenorissimo” at the Hungarian State Opera on August 19, 2022. The tenor will perform alongside such artists as Zsuzsanna Ádám, Csilla Boross, Gabriella Létay Kiss, Orsolya Sáfár, and Andrea Szántó. The performance will be conducted by Balázs Kocsár. The performance will be hosted by Melitta Gyüdi and directed by András Almási-Tóth. The gala event, which {…}
This week Festival Della Valle D’Itria is set to present its final opera of the season. It will world premiere “Opera Italiana” by Nicola Campogrande, a composer who is regarded as “one of the most interesting Italian composers of the young generation.” The new opera was written between 2008 and 2010 and was commissioned by Comitato Italia 150. The opera {…}
(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Aligheri’s death in September 1321, the Aix-en-Provence festival staged the world premier of French composer Pascal Dusapin’s opera “Il Viaggio, Dante,” based upon the poet’s iconic narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.” To say that this is an ambitious undertaking is an understatement, especially as the work has been compressed into {…}