Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin has postponed his return to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center due to family reasons. The organization announced that Nézet-Séguin had postponed his return to the festival due to an injury sustained by his partner, Pierre Tourville. Nézet-Séguin withdrew from the concerts on August 7 and 8 but will return on August 16 and 17 {…}
The Sarasota Opera has unveiled the full lineup for its 2019-20 season. The first opera on the slate is Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” which will feature Marco Nisticò in the title role, William Davenport, Hanna Brammer, Young Bok Kim, and Annie Chester. Victor DeRenzi conducts the production by Stephanie Sundine. Performance Dates: Nov. 1-17, 2019 Hans Krása’s “Brundibár” is the next opera {…}
Third Coast Baroque, an early music ensemble from Chicago, has unveiled its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on concerts related to opera and vocal performances. It all kicks off with “Wonder Women: Female Strength in Handel’s Cantatas.” The concert will star Nathalie Colas, Kaitlin Foley, Erica Schuller, and the TCB Chamber Ensemble. The {…}
(Photo: Alan Neilson) Bologna’s Palazzo Fava is running an exhibition entitled, “Vivaldi: My Life, My Music,” which might lead some to conclude that this a presentation by the composer himself, and they would not be entirely wrong. For sure, Vivaldi, has long since departed this world, but the exhibition has resurrected him as a guide, employed to takes us through {…}
This week, a slew of rarely performed works are set for release, including live recordings and some world premieres. La Nonne Sanglante Gounod’s rarely performed work gets a release from the Opera Comique. The new release, by Naxos, stars Vannina Santoni, Marion Lebègue, and Michael Spyres. Laurence Equilbey conducts the Insula Orchestra in David Bobee’s production from 2018. Jane Eyre Louis Karchin’s {…}
(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Met Opera and James Levine have quietly settled the ongoing suit over the conductor’s firing a few years ago, per The New York Times. The Met Opera had fired Levine in 2018 after conducting an investigation regarding accusations of sexual misconduct leveled against the maestro. The famed conductor then proceeded to sue the organization that {…}
The Metropolitan Opera Guild has announced its education program for the 2019-20 season. The program will kick off with “Great Duets,” which is set for Oct. 23, 30, and Nov. 6, 2019. It will feature the music of Puccini, Mozart, and Massenet. Jane Marsch will lead the course. “Wagner Across Borders” is set for Jan. 15, 22, 29 and Feb. {…}
Mill City Summer Opera has revealed that Cory Johnson will be the company’s Executive Director with Eric Einhorn coming in as Artistic Adviser. Johnson has worked with the organization for two years as the Development Director and has experience in arts fundraising and large-scale gala event management prior to his time with Mill City Summer Opera. Meanwhile, Einhorn is the {…}
(Credit: Taso Papadakis) A diverse group of 73 Los Angeles kids and teens, aged 9 – 17, recently presented “Then I Stood Up: A Civil Rights Cycle.” The two performances held on Aug. 3, 2019 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion marked the culmination of this year’s LA Opera Camp, a three-week intensive but fun-filled program designed to foster friendships, explore social justice {…}
Yusif Eyvazov has canceled his performances of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ at the Arena di Verona. In a press release the company stated, “Unfortunately, Yusif Eyvazov has to cancel the ‘Tosca’ performances in Arena di Verona due to his health condition.” As a result, the tenor will be replaced by Fabio Sartori and Vittorio Grigolo. Sartori will take over performances on August {…}
(Photo Credit: Javier del Real) BelAir Media is set to showcase the Teatro Real de Madrid’s 2018 stage production of Kurt Weill’s “Street Scene” via BroadwayHD on August 8, 2019. The media company will present this historic performance this August, which was directed for TV by Jérémie Cuviller and recorded on February 14 and 16, 2018. Those performances featured music {…}