Opera Saratoga has announced a new digital initiative that will feature several online programs that provide education, entertainment, and professional training. The program, called “OPERA SARATOGA: CONNECT” will kick off on Sunday, June 7 with its “Daily” series. Every morning at 9 a.m., the company will feature performances by festival artists on the company’s website and Facebook page. Each month {…}
(Credit: Metropolitan Opera) This week’s quiz is going to take a dramatic left turn. If you’ve been following this special feature since we started in late 2017, you’ll know that we seldom use images for quizzes. But we’re going to try something different this week. We’re going to present you with the image from a famous opera score and ask {…}
“Die ägyptische Helena,” premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on June 6, 1928. In English, “The Egyptian Helen” was adapted by librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal based on the works of Euripides concerning the Trojan War. A less successful work of Strauss, the opera was revised in 1933. The dynamic role of Helena was written for Maria Jeritza, a larger-than-life soprano in {…}
This week three new recordings are set to debut. Two are complete operas while one features rarely performed masses. Bruckner & Stravinsky Masses The Rundfunkchor Berlin, led by its chief conductor Gijs Leenaars and accompanied by wind players from the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, presents masses by Bruckner and Stravinsky. Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor and Stravinsky’s Mass share in their unusual {…}
NEMPAC Opera Project has announced that it will present its 9th season “Pop-Up Opera: In the Streets of Boston’s Little Italy” on Saturday, June 6, 2020. The event will start at 1 p.m. and end at 4:45 p.m. with the company moving around the area, performing highlights from Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at such venues as Lovejoy Wharf, the {…}
The Festival Little Opera de Zamora has announced its 2020 edition. The Barcelona season opens on July 24 with a Gala lírica featuring the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León at the La plaza de la Catedral de Zamora. Maestro Miquel Ortega conducts the evening. It follows on July 26 with Wolf Ferrari’s “Il segreto de Susanna” and Offenbach’s “Le {…}
(Image Source: Ravenna Festival Official Website) The Ravenna Festival in Italy has announced its program for the 2020 festival. For the purposes of this article, we will be focused solely on vocal performances. The season kicks off with Riccardo Muti leading a concert starring Rosa Feola in music by Mozart. Performance Date: June 21, 2020 Soprano Pamela Lucciarini and Ensemble {…}
Francesco Meli is set to perform at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a live streamed concert on June 7, 2020. The showcase, which will be streamed in collaboration with Idagio, will feature the tenor with the Maggio Musicale’s chorus and orchestra conducted by Marco Armiliato. There will be no audience in the auditorium. To watch the concert audiences will {…}
(Credit: Patrick Allen) The Academy of Ancient Music has announced that it has experienced an uptick in digital audiences over the last several months. Per a press release, the company has increased its digital audience by 570 percent during the lockdown. It has seen an 85 percent increase in its YouTube subscribers with one-third of those audience members under age {…}
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman will take part in an online Opening Night Spotlight event on Sunday, June 7 at 5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. EDT. The showcase will highlight the real-life couple’s first opera together “Awakenings.” The work would have had its world premiere performance on that night as part of the Opera Theatre of {…}
American Opera Project has announced that it will host “Hold On: A Vigil for Broken Spirits” on Friday, June 5, 2020. The event, which will take place via zoom, is intended to be a virtual gathering space hosted by soprano Adrienne Danrich in which audiences will get a chance to engage in meaningful discourse on the social injustice taking hold {…}