The Bayreuth Festival has announced its 2020 season. As previously announced the season will focus on a new production of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Pietari Inkinen will conduct the production with Valentin Schwarz directing the new production with sets designed by Andrea Cozzi. Andy Besuch will be responsible for the costumes. In addition to three complete The Ring Cycles, the {…}
Animator, composer, and performer Anna Lindemann is set to premiere her work, “The Colony,” an art-science performance about sisterhood and the evolution of communication in two of the most social creatures on earth: humans and ants. The work is set to see Lindemann portray the loving, bookish, and stubborn Mona as she struggles to reconnect with her estranged relatives, performed by soprano {…}
Corsara Artists is set to present Menotti’s “The Medium” as part of a Halloween showcase on Oct. 30-31, 2019. The opera, which will launch Corsara Artists’ Inaugural 2019-20 season, will be performed at Wiggin Auditorium. The company will showcase its roster of opera singers for the production with Sara Law taking on the role of Monica. Natalja Sticco will play {…}
The New Camerata Opera has unveiled some big news about upcoming performances during the 2019-20 season. First off, the company revealed that its Spring production of “Barnum’s Bird” will take place at Le Poisson Rouge.” However, in more immediate news, the company unveiled the full cast of its upcoming production of “El Barbero de Sevilla.” The zarzuela by Giménez and {…}
(Credit: Kathryn Lewek Official Facebook) Kathryn Lewek is the reigning Queen of the Night. She has performed the role in every major theater including the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Castell de Peralada, Opera Leipzig, Opera de Toulon, English {…}
(Photo: Victor Santiago) Italian Bass-Baritone Alex Esposito has an established and successful career, particularly in roles from Mozart and Rossini operas, although he is certainly not to restricted to this repertoire. He has appeared in many of Europe’s premier theatres, including La Scala, Covent Garden, Berlin’s Staatsoper, Vienna’s Staatsoper and many more, and worked alongside many of the world’s leading {…}
(Credit: Chia Messina) San Francisco Opera has announced that soprano Andriana Chuchman is the winner of the 2019 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition. The soprano, who first performed with the company in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” in 2018, will be awarded $10,000 as the fourth winner in the competition’s history. She {…}
I think the trickiness of reviewing this work – for me, at least – can be expressed by an exchange I had with a couple at Bard’s Sosnoff Theater during the intermission of the Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s opera, “Das Wunder Der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane).” Apparently, a woman had noticed me taking notes during the performance, perhaps deduced I {…}
(Photos: Celina Friedrichs) When Alessandro De Marchi took up his post as Artistic Director of Innsbruck’s Early Music Festival one of his first innovations was to introduce the “Cesti Competition,” with the aim of promoting the profile of, and opportunities for, young singers specializing in the baroque. Now in its tenth year, the competition’s status on the international stage is {…}
In the opera world, we are constantly keeping our eyes on the stars. We think we know all about their respective paths and trajectories. We constantly evaluate their respective brightness and when we think they might potentially go dark. In essence, the opera world is obsessed with stars. So for this week’s edition of the Opera Quiz, we will take {…}
Fathom Events is set to present Plácido Domingo’s 50th-anniversary gala from the Arena di Verona. “Plácido Domingo Gala” celebrates the historic talents of one of the greatest singers in the world, who has had an international career as a tenor, baritone, orchestra conductor, general manager and mentor of young talents. The gala included segments from ‘Nabucco,” “Macbeth,” and “Simon Boccanegra” and stars Anna {…}
