(Photo Credit: Chris Singer) Fort Worth Opera has announced a virtual artistic residency with renowned soprano Jennifer Rowley. This collaboration will see Rowley leading a series of masterclasses, lectures, and discussions with singers, directors, and industry insiders. The eight-week program will be held via Zoom, and instructions for singers to audition will be announced shortly on Fort Worth Opera’s website, {…}
The 69th Annual Granada Festival has announced its summer season program. The Spanish festival announced that it was moving forward and for this article we will focus mainly on the vocal performances. Nadine Sierra, Carlos Mena, Xabier Anduaga, and Carlos Álvarez highlight opening night performing Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Andrea Marcon. Performance Date: June 25, 2020 Raquel Lojendio, {…}
Update: The star of the festival will be postponed until June 23, 2020. The Orchestra of St. Luke’s has announced its online slate for the Bach at Home Festival, which launches on June 9, 2020. For the purposes of this article, our focuses will be on vocal performances. The first vocal showcase does not come until week two when soprano {…}
The Los Angeles Opera has announced that its annual summer Opera Camp will be taking place online this summer. In sum, there will be three two-week sessions with the first kicking off between June 22 through July 3. The second is set for July 13-24 with the final session taking place between July 27- August 7. Throughout the program, students {…}
As theaters turn to the 2020-21 season, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and Royal Opera House are making decisions. While the Teatro Real de Madrid has confirmed a summer production of “La Traviata” per soprano Ekaterina Bakanova’s Twitter account, according to La Vanguardia, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona has canceled the opening night production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” {…}
The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its program for reopening starting on June 5. The concerts will feature the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by Igor Levit, Julian Rachlin performing Beethoven’s Sonatas and Rudolf Buchbinder performing all five Beethoven Piano Concertos. Each concert will be performed twice every evening so that as many people as possible can enjoy live music again. The June {…}
After canceling the 2020 edition, the Lucerne Festival is reconsidering a short season in August. In a press release, the Swiss festival announced that following the Federal Council’s press conference, “it is in the process of developing a concept for a new, short festival to be held in the second half of August.” The new edition will be based on {…}
The Broad Stage in Los Angeles has announced its 2020-21 season, which will be the company’s first under Artistic and Executive Director Rob Bailis. The season will feature a wide array or unique works and artists, but for the purposes of this article, our focus will be on operatic and vocal performances. The season will launch outdoors in fall 2020 {…}
The Volksoper Wien has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of new productions and revivals. For this article we will only focus on the opera and operetta productions for the season. Premieres Henry Mason directs a new production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte“ with Stefan Cerny, Anna Siminska, Martin Mitterrutzner, Rebecca Nelsen, Jakob Semotan, and Juliette Khalil. Performance Dates: Oct. {…}
(Photo Credits: Dario Acosta / Elena Nezenceva / Chris Singer / Frances Marshall) IDAGIO has announced that it will be launching a digital concert hall featuring some of the great classical music artists of our time. Among the artists involved in the initiative are Thomas Hampson, Luca Pisaroni, Kristine Opolais, Brian Jagde, Ailyn Pérez, and Matthew Polenzani, among many others. {…}
(Credit: Glyndebourne Productions Ltd / I. Cooper) Glyndebourne’s YouTube channel will start streaming free operas every Sunday starting on May 24, 2020. For the first set of operas, the company is turning to Mozart and Da Ponte’s famed trilogy. The series kicked off with Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with a cast featuring Vito Priante, Isabel Leonard, Andrew Shore, Lydia {…}