The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2019 Young Artist Production of Cavalli’s “La Calisto.” Performances are set for July 29, 31, and August 2 and 3. The production will be directed by Mathilde Lopez and will star Chiara Vinci, Sophie Goldrick, Zita Syme, Emma Charles, Lizzie Holmes, Jessie Tse, Felix Kemp, Neil Balfour, Brian Mcalea, and Gabriel Seawright. “Comical {…}
Opera Tampa has announced its 2019-20 season celebrating its 25th anniversary. “We have such a monumental opera season to look forward to for 2019-2020. We’re celebrating our 25th anniversary as the grand opera company of the Tampa Bay area with four extraordinary performances,” Straz Center President and Opera Tampa General Director Judy Lisi said in a press release. “We can’t wait. {…}
The casting revamp for the Royal Opera House’s upcoming “Carmen” continues with the announcement that mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina will be taking over the performance on June 26. Anaïk Morel was originally set to perform on that date, though she will remain in the title role for seven other performances on June 22, 24, 28 and July 10, 13, 16, and {…}
Robert Hugill and Joanna Wyld’s “The Gardeners” will get a performance at Conway Hall on June 18, 2019. The work will be presented in concert form with baritone Peter Brathwaite, countertenor Magic El-Bushra, mezzo-soprano Flora McIntosh, mezzo-soprano Georgia Mae Bishop, and bass-baritone Julian Debreuill. Per a press release, the chamber opera was inspired by a newspaper article about a family {…}
On April 30, 2019, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden will showcase its revival of “Faust” in cinemas.” The production, which was originally directed by David McVicar, stars Michael Fabiano in the title role. Irina Lungu is his beloved Marguerite, while Erwin Schrott is Méphistophélès. Other cast members include Stéphane Degout, Marta Fontanais-Simmons, and Carole Wilson, among others. Dan Ettinger {…}
“Dialogues des Carmélites” returns to the Metropolitan Opera for what will be its 58th performance on Friday, May 3. The opera is one of the beloved in the canon, even if its performances have not been as common at the Met over the ages. The work first premiered with the company on Feb. 5, 1977 and has only seen one {…}
The Semperoper Dresden has announced a cast change for tomorrow’s performance of “Der Rosenkavalier.” The company announced that Sophie Koch will sing the role of Octavian in April 30 showcase of “Der Rosenkavalier,” replacing Christina Bock, who is ill. Koch recently appeared in the Ring Cycle at the Wiener Staatsoper and is set to appear at the Teatro Colón in {…}
As the 2018-19 season comes to an end, we start to look at the summer festival season where the big stars and anticipated productions are set to make waves. With a ton of selections to choose from, we eventually whittled it down to the 10 Must-See productions that cannot be missed this summer. Take a look. 10. Il Trovatore – Arena {…}
This week baritone Lucia Lucas will break a glass ceiling in the United States by becoming the first trans woman to perform a principal role on the operatic stage in the U.S. Lucas will make her U.S. debut at the Tulsa Opera singing the title role of “Don Giovanni” after taking Europe by storm over the years. Lucas has reached {…}
OperaVision will stream the opening and the finale of the 10th International Moniuszko Vocal Competition. The event will open at the Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera on May 5, 2019, with the grand finale set for May 11. The opening night performance will feature singers that have won the competition in previous years. They include three sopranos (Olga Busuioc, Ewa Tracz, {…}
The Metropolitan Opera’s first Ring Cycle of the 2018-19 season came to a glorious end with “Götterdämmerung” in a production featuring a tremendous cast. In some ways, this might have been the most satisfying evening of the entire cycle, with a luxurious cast of true singing actors against a production that, at times, had something to say. A Hero Above {…}