The Bearded Ladies Cabaret will join together with FringeArts and Opera Philadelphia during Fringe Fest to present “Late Night Snacks,” a series of nightly performances held at a pop-up cabaret bar. The industrial space at 1316 S. Percy St. will be converted into “a speakeasy like none other,” according to the press release. Bartenders from Sassafras and The Tin Angel will {…}
Jonas Kaufmann has canceled performances of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Bayerische Staatsoper. The company announced that Kaufmann would not be singing performances scheduled for July 27 and 31, 2019. As a result, Daniel Kirch will replace the tenor in the role of Walther. Kirch has performed at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Volksoper Wien, the Semperoper Dresden, the Zurich Opera {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced its semifinalists for both the opera and zarzuela competition. Audiences will be able to view the semifinals via live stream on Operalia’s Facebook page. In the opera competition, audiences will see baritone Germán Alcántara, tenor Xabier Anduaga, tenor Mario Bahg, tenor, soprano Lada Bočková, tenor Piotr Buszewski, soprano Adriana Gonzalez, mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva, baritone Gihoon Kim, {…}
(Credit: Rachel Meirson) Russian Opera Workshop has announced the cast to its upcoming performances of Tchaikovsky’s “The Maid of Orleans.” In the lead roles Elana Gleason, Julia Gershkoff, and Rachel Eve Holmes are set to share the role of Joan of Arc while Hanxiao Wang, Natalie Almeter, and Lauryn Moscon will alternate as Agnès Sorel. The rest of the cast will include Martin Luther Clark, Eric Delagrange, Noah Donahue, Tim Renner, Powell Brumm, Anthony {…}
The Teatro Real closed its season with a lot of Verdi – 14 performances of “Il Trovatore” and three concert-version performances of “Giovanna d’Arco.” It has been largely argued whether opera is to be only performed with staging or not. I mostly agree that Opera is a theatrical composition, and therefore should always be staged, but this concert performances usually {…}
Central City Opera is set to present “The Blessed Damozel” by Debussy and “Litanies to the Black Virgin” by Poulenc as part of a new Double Bill. The two rarely performed works, which OperaWire named as one of the top operas to see this summer, will be directed by Alessandro Talevi, who directed “The Magic Flute” for the company in 2018. {…}
The Semperoper Dresden has announced the death of longtime ensemble member Tom Martinsen at the age of 62. The tenor, who hailed from Norway, went to Hamar and studied at the Music Academy in Oslo and at the Opera Academy in Stockholm. He went on to make his stage-debut as Ferrando in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” at the Royal Opera House Stockholm {…}
(Photo: Pat Redmond) Irish National Opera’s world premiere of “Least Like the Other, Searching for Rosemary Kennedy” took place at Galway’s International Arts Festival this July, an amazing feat in itself, given that the company has only been in existence for 18 months, yet it was the innovative quality and sheer brilliance of the work that really impressed. Five years {…}
The Teatro Cervantes de Málaga has announced its 2019-20 season featuring four staged productions and a concert performance. Berna Perles, César Gutiérrez, Roman Ialcic, Beatriz Díaz, Pablo García López, Luis López, and José Antonio López star in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with José Carlos Plaza directing and Manuel Hernández Silva conducting. Performance Dates: Nov. 1 & 3, 2019 Javier Camarena performs a concert with music García, Rossini, and Zingarelli with {…}
This week the Santa Fe Opera is set to present its 16th world premiere. The company, which has been an advocate for new opera, will present the fifth opera by Poul Ruders, “The Thirteenth Child.” The work, which tells the story of a paranoid king who banishes his 12 sons in favor of Lyra, the thirteenth child. But when Princess Lyra {…}
Guatemalan soprano Adriana Gonzalez is the first musician in her entire family, making her meteoric rise in the opera world all the more essential to her and her loved ones. She has the potential to go even further this very week when she competes in the Operalia Competition, one month after appearing the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. {…}
