(Credit: Patrick Allen) The Academy of Ancient Music has announced that it has experienced an uptick in digital audiences over the last several months. Per a press release, the company has increased its digital audience by 570 percent during the lockdown. It has seen an 85 percent increase in its YouTube subscribers with one-third of those audience members under age {…}
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman will take part in an online Opening Night Spotlight event on Sunday, June 7 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. EDT. The showcase will highlight the real-life couple’s first opera together “Awakenings.” The work would have had its world premiere performance on that night as part of the Opera Theatre of {…}
American Opera Project has announced that it will host “Hold On: A Vigil for Broken Spirits” on Friday, June 5, 2020. The event, which will take place via zoom, is intended to be a virtual gathering space hosted by soprano Adrienne Danrich in which audiences will get a chance to engage in meaningful discourse on the social injustice taking hold {…}
The Salzburg Festival has announced that it will be extending the contract of president Helga Rabl-Stadler for an additional year. Per the Wiener Zeitung, the festival’s board voted unanimously on this decision. “I was determined to end my work for the Salzburg Festival after this anniversary on December 31, 2020,” Rabl-Stadler said. “But the positive response from Salzburgers and our {…}
Opéra de Marseille has announced its 2020-21 season featuring seven operas and a number of concerts. Misha Didyk stars in Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame” with Barbara Haveman, Marie-Ange Todorovitch, Marion Lebegue, Alexander Kasyanov, and Serban Vasile. Lawrence Foster conducts Olivier Py. Performance Dates: Oct. 2-9, 2020 Roberto Rizzi Brignoli conducts Nicola Berloffa’s production of Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri” with Silvia Tro {…}
Opera Colorado has announced that it will postpone the opening of its 2020-21 season. In a press statement the company announced, “in order to safely welcome you back to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, we have taken the bold step of moving our fall, season-opening production of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s ‘The Shining’ to the final two weeks of {…}
Faced with the ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus, the Royal Opera House is in dire financial straits, according to chief executive Alex Beard. Speaking at a virtual summit of industry leaders in West End, Beard cautioned that the venue may not last beyond autumn unless there is a significant change in the support the organization receives from the government, {…}
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced the first drive-in gala. The German company announced that on June 19 at the Autokino Düsseldorf music director Axel Kober will conduct seven stars from the opera company, the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, and members of the choir of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The program will feature music from “Carmen,” “Il barbiere di {…}
(Photo: Frances Marshall ) The seasons have provided a rich source of inspiration for composers; Vivaldi’s violin concerti and Haydn’s oratorio spring to mind, but there are many others, such as Vaughan-Williams’ “Folk Songs of the Four Seasons,” and more recently Cage’s “The Four Seasons,” whilst Schumann’s “Spring” symphony and Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” focused on a particular season. They {…}
Opera Naples has announced its 2021 season featuring three masterworks. Opera Naples Executive Director, Sondra Quinn said, “We are thrilled to bring these three outstanding operas to the Naples community and to highlight two works of the American lyric stage.” The season opens with Tom Cipullo’s “Glory Denied” with Ramón Tebar conducting the chamber piece which will be sung by Opera Naples’ {…}
The Seattle Opera has announced the cancellation its fall production of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” The company revealed in a press statement that due to the global pandemic, it was forced to cancel the first production of the season. The cancellation will result in the loss of work for more than 220 singers, crew, and musicians. Additionally, with the end {…}
