(Credit: Dario Acosta) Sonya Yoncheva is set to headline the reopening of Victoria Hall in Geneva on June 21. The soprano will perform in a unique post-COVID version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. She will join the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the chorus of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and the Zürcher Sing-Akademie. Jonathon Knott will conduct the symphony, which {…}
The Verdi Festival in Parma has announced a newly revised program. Due to social distancing regulations, the festival will now be held outdoors in order to accommodate as many audience members as possible. The season will now open with a concert performance of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in French. Ludovic Tézier and Davinia Rodríguez star in the lead roles with Riccardo Zanellato {…}
(Credit: Fay Fox) The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice has announced that this year’s live opera staging, typically the highlight of its annual summer music festival will be a drive-in performance of Puccini’s “Tosca.” The performance, set for August 29, will take place at Tech City in Kingston, New York. As with drive-in movie experiences, audience members will drive {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta / Vienna State Opera) Let’s kick this off with arguably the most essential streaming from around the opera world that you can engage with this week. Several of opera’s prominent black artists have been very outspoken in recent weeks about the issue of racial injustice that has taken hold of the international conversation, and many others have {…}
The Bilbao Opera has announced its 2021-22 season. In a press release, the company noted that during the 2021-22 season it will present Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann, “Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito, ” the famed double bill of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” as well as another opera pairing featuring Poulenc’s “La voix humaine” and Zemlinsky’s {…}
Belarusian soprano Irina Siegal passed away on May 27, 2020 from a rare form of cancer. Born on May 31, 1968, in Miory, Siegal was educated in a Soviet Board School. She went on to the Moscow Conservatory and won a full scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York City, before transferring to the Curtis Institute of Music in {…}
(Credit: Emily Isacson / Dario Acosta) The Los Angeles Opera has announced its streaming slate for the week of June 8, 2020. The programming will kick off with “Opera Family Time” in which soprano Katherine Powers talks about Shakespeare’s “Othello” with actor/playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb. Powers will also perform the “Willow Song” from Verdi’s “Otello.” Streaming Date: June 9, 2020, {…}
Promethean Artists has announced its programming for the week of June 8, 2020. It all kicks off with Roberto Kalb, Resident Conductor and Head of Music at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, taking questions from audience members on a variety of topics. Streaming Date: June 8, 2020, at 12 p.m. EDT Chase Schaap continues his weekly “Fitness for Singers” series, {…}
Grange Park Opera has announced the official program for its 2020 “Found Season.” For this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn performed Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine.” Streaming Date: June 4, 2020 Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone performed a recital from home. Streaming Date: June 6, 2020 Tenor Wynne Evans will {…}
“Allure” and “brightness” have been some of the words used to describe mezzo-soprano Varduhi Abrahamyan. The Franco-Armenian mezzo is one of today’s rising stars, having performed at many of the leading theaters in the world including the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Opéra de Marseille, and Opernhaus Zürich. She is recognized for her Bel Canto interpretations in {…}
(Credit: Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) The “Teatro Digitale” dell’Opera di Roma has announced operas streaming from June 9-21, 2020. The first stream will be the ballet “Marco Spada” with Rudolf Nureyev in the title role. The performance also stars Ghislaine Thesmar, Lucia Colognato, Michaël Denard, and Alfredo Rainò. The ballet features music by Daniel François Esprit Auber and is conducted {…}