(Credit: Mariinsky Theatre official website) COVID-19 has struck the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Per the sources on the website Rosbalt.ru, over 50 members of the ballet and the orchestra fell sick as a result of the COVID-19 infection. Per the same sources, the number has more than doubled related to the previous day. The website reports that each day {…}
The Opera Buffs have announced a brand new series entitled “Stay In / Sing Out.” The online showcase provides artists to present their stories and present a unique online recording. The first in this series is bass Peter Barber who was set to become an Apprentice Singer at Santa Fe Opera prior to the COVID-19 lockdown. Instead, he used his {…}
For this week’s quiz, we turn back to one of the giants of the operatic canon – Verdi. In this iteration, you will be presented with a scenario regarding one of Verdi’s main operas. These scenarios will usually relate to which characters are designated opening or closing lines of an opera, or other unique details in terms of their positioning {…}
Earlier this season, rising star soprano Elsa Dreisig was set to make her role debut as Fiordiligi in “Cosi Fan Tutte” in Berlin. However, as was the case with most plans in 2020, COVID-19 canceled out that possibility. For the time being, it seemed that that auspicious debut would have to wait. But as fate would have it, Dreisig, a {…}
(Credits: © Sim Canetty-Clarke / Dario Acosta / Patrick Allen) BBC Proms has announced the schedule for the two weeks of live performances at the Royal Albert Hall. Compared to the initial plans that were conveyed to the public in May, there will be no live audience. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. {…}
This week audiences can stream and see rarely performed works and world premieres. Blueprints I Composer, vocalist, and producer Lisa Bielawa releases a new digital-only album featuring ten world premiere recordings of Bielawa’s compositions. The album was recorded entirely in the performers’ homes, with guidance from engineer Mick Rossi. The recording features Lisa Bielawa, pianist Molly Morkoski, flutist Sarah Carrier, {…}
With the Arts and Culture sector’s 5.1 million Americans out of work, BeAnArtsHero.com, an intersectional grass-roots campaign to provide proportionate relief to the sector, has sent an open letter to the U.S. Senate calling on the body to pass $43.85 billion in direct relief to artists and arts institutions. The request calls for with a fair amount of that aid {…}
-We will update this article as more additional Information becomes available- After the coronavirus forced theaters to cancel the remainder of the 2019-20 season and the majority of the summer festival season, audiences are awaiting information on how the upcoming 2020-21 seasons will be affected. Here is a breakdown of schedule changes in Europe: Berlin State Opera Cancels a 2020-21 {…}
(Image Source: Met OPera Official Website) OperaWire is proud to partner with Appreciate Opera, a website founded by Alkis Karmpaliotis in which he highlights his passion for opera. Karmpaliotis, an OperaWire contributing author, will focus on his passion for opera and how to share it with newer and younger audiences. Getting young people to become opera-goers is one of the {…}
The Los Angeles Opera has announced its streaming options for the week starting on August 17. The company’s first offering will be “Learn at Home” with Jeremy Frank, who will take audiences on a virtual journey of opera’s most exotic locations. Streaming Date: August 18, 2020 at 4 p.m. PDT / 7 p.m. EDT Bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos will deliver a {…}
(Credit: Kristina Kalinina) Among the many performers at this year’s unique Salzburg Festival is tenor Bogdan Volkov. A former student at the Glier Kiev Institute of Music and Tchaikovsky Kiev National Academy of Music, and a frequent performer at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Volkov is making his debut with the festival as a part of this year’s production of “Così {…}