Juan Diego Flórez and Gustavo Dudamel are set to appear at the Festival Castell Peralada. The festival announced that Flórez will perform a concert alongside Armenian soprano Ruzan Mantashyan in duets from French and Italian operas. Guillermo García Calvo will conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica del Vallès in a concert that is set for August 9, 2019. The night after, Dudamel will conduct the {…}
The North Carolina Symphony has announced its 2019-20 season with a number of crossover concerts, classical repertoire, and operatic selections. For this article, we have only chosen the opera or vocal performances. In time for the holiday season, the North Carolina Master Chorale joins NCS for Handel’s Messiah. Ellie Dehn, Andrew Owens, and Federico de Michelis are the soloists in the evening, which {…}
This week, two new releases are set to hit the market. One comes from the Metropolitan Opera, while the other comes from one of the world’s rising stars. Here is a look at what we recommend this week. The Exterminating Angel Thomas Adès’ latest opera gets a release by Erato after its U.S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. The opera {…}
The New Camerata Opera is set to showcase “Heroines of Opera” on March 26, 2019. The event will feature arias and songs that represent the strongest female characters in the world. The performance is expected to be a preview for the company’s hotly anticipated production of “The Rape of Lucretia,” which will be directed by Bea Goodwin and will star {…}
The Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Music: Opera Institute and School of Theatre have unveiled their 2019 spring opera season. The institutions will kick things off with the New England Premiere of Tobias Picker and J. D. McClatchy’s “Dolores Claiborne” starting on Feb. 21, 2019. BU Opera Institute has had a lengthy relationship with Picker, producing such {…}
BASE Hologram and the LA Opera Off Grand are set to present “Callas in Concert” on April 13, 2019. The event will be presented in association with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the USC Bovard Auditorium. “Callas in Concert” is a performance that uses technology to bring back the famed diva both visually and vocally 50 years {…}
Pontus Wiegert and his colleagues at Lund University will lead a research project on aging voices, initiated by The Swedish Union of Professional Musicians (Symf) and Göteborg Opera in collaboration with Malmö Opera and the Royal Swedish Opera. It is well-known that the degree of voice deterioration among aging persons can vary significantly, but no research has been conducted to conclusively {…}
Initial casting for Washington National Opera’s 2019 WNO Gala has been announced. The event will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2019, and will celebrate local entrepreneur John J. Pohanka “for his outstanding contributions to the organization” over nearly 30 years on the Board of Trustees, according to the press release. Evan Rogister will lead “the WNO Orchestra and an {…}
On Feb. 19, 2019, a number of opera companies in Buenos Aires came together to present a performance of arias by Puccini and announce collaborations together throughout 2019. The showcase featured such companies as Magna Lírica and its director Mariana Carnovali; Ensamble Lírico Orquesta and its leader Cecilia Layseca; Compañía Lírica Verdi and its manager Adriana Segal; and Espacio Victorium, {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment will take a look {…}
Arguably one of the most hotly anticipated productions on the west coast in the coming days is the LA Opera Off Grand production of David Lang’s ‘the loser,’ a one man show about two aspiring concert pianists who witness Glenn Gould during a masterclass that alters their hopes and dreams. The piece, which will be making its west coast premiere, {…}
