The Wexford Festival Opera has announced the first-ever participants of the Wexford Factory. The factory is a two-week academy that aims to mentor young singers through masterclasses from international artists and professionals including famed tenor Juan Diego-Flórez, Irish soprano Celine Byrne, Ernesto Palacio of the Rossini Opera Festival, and Dmitry Vdovin, head of the Bolshoi’s Young Artist program. Additionally, Veteran {…}
The New York Opera Alliance has announced that it will refocus its 2020 festival into the 2020 New York Virtual Opera Fest in light of the spread of COVID-19. The organization will curate and shine a light on the many projects being untaken by participating organizations throughout the coming months, including over 40 such showcases throughout the month of April. {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) The Orchestre de Montréal has announced that over the next few weeks it will be showcasing eight online concerts and the launch of its 2020-21 season. Starting on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 one of the major artists that will appear with the company during the upcoming season will give a 45-minute concert with some of their favorite {…}
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s has reconceived the June performances of its OSL Bach Festival as a series of curated online concerts entitled “Bach at Home 2020.” The concert series will be released on the company’s official website this June and will feature such artists as Principal Conductor Bernard Labadie, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, cellist Pieter Wispelwey, harpsichordists Jean Rondeau {…}
The English National Opera has announced that it will begin its upcoming season with “Hairspray.” In a letter the company sent to artists and agents, ENO announced that it will show the musical for 10 weeks. “I hope that you and your loved ones are well and safe. Today it will be announced that Hairspray, which had been due to {…}
The Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo will present Joyce DiDonato’s “In War and Peace” through its Teatro Digital between April 2 to 9, 2020. The concert, which features Il Pomo d’Oro, will be shown on the Teatro Mayor’s Facebook page and on the www.teatrodigital.org. The program features baroque music from composers Händel, Leo, De Cavalieri, Purcell, Gesualdo, and Pärt. {…}
We hope everyone is well and enjoying their opera. It is likely that there are already a lot of streams on your radar, but with the weekend looming (whatever that means anymore), we figured we point you toward a few highlights being presented this weekend. Pepito – April 3, 2020 For those who want some new opera, Composer Nicolas Lell {…}
(Credit: Dave Nickerson) On April 3, 2020, Houston-based composer Misha Penton will release her new music video, “Visible Darkness.” The work, the first of a coming series, is described as “a fairytale of our ephemeral, delicate bodies in a city of glass and steel, and a celebration of the magnificent transformative feminine.” The rest of the series will be released {…}
The Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse has announced its 2020-21 season. Here is a look at the opera and vocal performances. Productions Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” opens the season in a new production by Thomas Lebrun. Emmanuel Plasson conducts the production with Anne-Catherine Gillet, Mathias Vidal, Alexandre Duhamel, and Jean-Fernand Setti. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 9, 2020 Catherine Hunold {…}
The Merola Opera Program has launched a new initiative, called the Merola Artists Emergency Fund, which is intended to provide relief to Merola alumni who have suffered financial hardship as a result of the coronavirus epidemic. The initiative is open to young singers, conductors, and directors who participated during 2015-2019. “So many of our talented Merola participants have suddenly seen {…}
The local council has confirmed Robin Davis as general music director of the Theater Pforzheim during the 2020-21 season. Davis was born in Exeter, England and studied mathematics at Cambridge University before studying piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He got his first engagement at the Dortmund Theater and later went on to {…}