(Credit: BoHuang) Handel’s “Semele” will make a return to the Shanghai International Arts Festival on Nov. 8 and 9, 2019. This re-imagined version of the opera, which was presented 10 years ago, will be showcased as part of the 140th anniversary celebrations of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. The performance will be presented by KT Wong Foundation as part of the {…}
Austrian mezzo-soprano Erika Wien passed away in Zürich at the age of 91 following a short illness. Born in Vienna in 1928, Wien spent a portion of her youth fleeing the Nazis in Poland and later the Soviet Union. After the War, she returned to her hometown to study voice at the Vienna Music Academy. According to Neue Zürcher Zeitung, {…}
Diana Damrau has canceled her performance with the Philharmonie de Paris. The orchestra announced that due to health reasons, Diana Damrau was forced to cancel her concert scheduled for Oct. 25. As a result, there will be no performance that evening. The concert was part of her Songs of Richard Strauss tour which began in Munich earlier this month and is {…}
The South Shore Opera Company of Chicago is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a concert gala on Oct. 27, 2019. The event, which will take place the Robeson Theater & Solarium in Chicago, will feature a wide range of major artists Carl Alexander, Warnell Berry, Jeffrey Burish, Brandon Brown, Dana Campbell, Leah Dexter, Adrian Dunn, Cornelius Johnson, Kimberly {…}
The Madison Lyric Stage will showcase tenor Marc Deaton in “Hotel Fables: Episodes in a Life” on Nov. 15-17 at the Deacon John Grave House in Madison, Connecticut. The program will feature scenes from “Billy Budd,” “The Rape of Lucretia,” “Samson et Dalila,” “Manon Lescaut,” “Play,” “The Dressers,” “Cavalleria Rusticana,” “Fidelio,” and “Die Tote Stadt.” The perfomance will also feature {…}
The Pittsburgh Festival Opera is set to present the ninth annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition on Oct. 26 and 27, 2019. The showcase will be hosted by Kip Soteres, the host of Aria 412’s “Opera for Everyone” series. The semifinals are set for Saturday the 26th with the grand finals set for the following day. Eight singers will be {…}
(Credit: Metropolitan Opera) The Opéra de Montréal and the Orchestre Métropolitain are set to come together for their first co-production with Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” The concert version of the famed opera, which is set to take place on Oct. 25 and 27 at the Maison Symphonique, will feature maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin at the podium; the famed conductor was recently awarded a {…}
(Credit: Stofleth) La Monnaie is set to showcase Honegger’s “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher” starting on Nov. 5, 2019. The production of the dramatic oratorio will be directed by Romeo Castellucci; the work is presented as a co-production with Opéra de Lyon, the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre, and the Theater Basel. In the title role, audiences will get a {…}
Later this month, twenty-one semi-finalists, selected from a pool of over two-hundred, will compete at the ninth annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition. A panel of judges, led by company founder and competition namesake Mildred Miller Posvar, will choose eight finalists, and ultimately three winners. A fourth competitor will be chosen as Audience Favorite. Winners will receive a prize of {…}
Chicago Opera Theater has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Residency Program, the heart of COT’s Vanguard Initiative. The Residency Program invites composers to join the company for a two-year study of opera-specific skills, with the goal of “bridging the gap between general compositional skills taught in {…}
Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society will continue its annual holiday tradition of presenting Handel’s beloved choral work “Messiah.” H + H gave the American premiere of “Messiah” in its entirety in 1818, and has showcased the “dazzling and joyous” work every year since 1854. The sixty-member professional Baroque chorus and period instrument orchestra will be joined by soprano Elizabeth Watts, {…}
