Belarusian soprano Irina Siegal passed away on May 27, 2020 from a rare form of cancer. Born on May 31, 1968, in Miory, Siegal was educated in a Soviet Board School. She went on to the Moscow Conservatory and won a full scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York City, before transferring to the Curtis Institute of Music in {…}
(Credit: Emily Isacson / Dario Acosta) The Los Angeles Opera has announced its streaming slate for the week of June 8, 2020. The programming will kick off with “Opera Family Time” in which soprano Katherine Powers talks about Shakespeare’s “Othello” with actor/playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb. Powers will also perform the “Willow Song” from Verdi’s “Otello.” Streaming Date: June 9, 2020, {…}
Promethean Artists has announced its programming for the week of June 8, 2020. It all kicks off with Roberto Kalb, Resident Conductor and Head of Music at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, taking questions from audience members on a variety of topics. Streaming Date: June 8, 2020, at 12 p.m. EDT Chase Schaap continues his weekly “Fitness for Singers” series, {…}
Grange Park Opera has announced the official program for its 2020 “Found Season.” For this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn performed Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine.” Streaming Date: June 4, 2020 Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone performed a recital from home. Streaming Date: June 6, 2020 Tenor Wynne Evans will {…}
“Allure” and “brightness” have been some of the words used to describe mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan. The Franco-Armenian mezzo is one of today’s rising stars, having performed at many of the leading theaters in the world including the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Opéra de Marseille, and Opernhaus Zürich. She is recognized for her Bel Canto interpretations in {…}
(Credit: Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) The “Teatro Digitale” dell’Opera di Roma has announced operas streaming from June 9-21, 2020. The first stream will be the ballet “Marco Spada” with Rudolf Nureyev in the title role. The performance also stars Ghislaine Thesmar, Lucia Colognato, Michaël Denard, and Alfredo Rainò. The ballet features music by Daniel François Esprit Auber and is conducted {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced a “Sunday Matinee” program. In a press release, Susan T. Danis, FGO General Director and CEO said, “We are excited to be in our third month of our FGO GO initiative; delivering opera to our audiences at home. We hope that everyone has enjoyed coming together virtually during the time we cannot be together {…}
(Credit: Image from Scherzo) Italian pianist and composer Marcello Abbado passed away on June 4, 2020. Born in Milan on October 7, 1926, Abbado was raised in a family of famous musicians; his father was violinist Michelangelo Abbado, and his brother Claudio was music director of the Teatro alla Scala and the Vienna State Opera. He studied piano at the {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) For this week’s edition of the word search will focus on the interpreters of Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier,” specifically those who have performed the role of Octavian to great renown. Your goal is to find the first name of each of these mezzo-sopranos. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile {…}
The Lyric Opera of Chicago will present several performances on local radio station 98.7 WFMT starting on June 6, 2020. All the broadcasts will kick off at 12 p.m. CDT on Saturdays. Below is a breakdown of the operas and the dates they will be broadcast. June 6: Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” June 13: Puccini’s “Turandot” June 20: Verdi’s {…}
(Credit: Victor Xie) The Voices of Silicon Valley is set to present a concert featuring Palestrina’s “Missa Papae Marcelli.” The concert, which will take place on June 7, 2020, honors the victims of racial injustice. “As we sing this work of peace and beauty, we remember the lives tragically lost very recently to injustice and violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Charlottesville, {…}