(Credit: Courtesy of Dallas Opera) The Dallas Opera will present Angel Blue in the Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus Art Song Recital. The soprano will be accompanied by renowned South African pianist James Baillieu on Jan. 26, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. in Moody Performance Hall at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas, Texas. Blue will perform a recital program {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) The Met Opera’s Live in HD series for the 2019-20 season continues this Saturday, Jan. 11, 2019 with a transmission of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck.” The broadcast, which kicks off 12:55 p.m. Eastern time and is set to end before 3 p.m. local time. It will star Peter Mattei in the titular role with Elza {…}
The Madison Lyric Stage has announced its 2020 mainstage season which will include two operas and two musicals. For the purposes of this release, we will only concentrate on the two operas and one musical the season will offer. This season the Madison Lyric Stage will continue its partnership with the Deacon John Grave House in the Madison historic district {…}
The Salzburg Landestheater has commisioned Alma Deutscher for a new opera. The 14 year-old composer will write “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” which is slated to have its premiere in 2022. The new work will mark her third opera following her successful “Cinderella” and “The Sweeper of Dreams. ” Deustcher wrote her first opera in 2012 and premiered it in Israel {…}
(Credit: Felix Broede) Kent Nagano is set to lead the Ring Cycle under very unique circumstances. The conductor will make history by leading the Concerto Köln in a performance played on early-19th century instruments with gut strings. Performances will begin in 2021 with each opera presented in a semi-staged version at the Kölner Philharmonie. The operas will also be performed {…}
(Credit: Courtesy of Spoleto Festival) General Director Nigel Redden has announced the details of the 44th season of Spoleto Festival USA. The festival will feature a wide array of music, performances, screenings, talks and opera. For this article we have only concentrated on the vocal performances. Opera The festival will show the world premiere of “Omar” based on the life {…}
(This review will focus on the Jan. 4 performance, though with mentions of the Jan. 3 performance as well.) There is a moment near the end of Davide Livermore’s “Die Zauberflöte” at Muscat’s Royal Opera House of Musical Arts in which Tamino and Pamino must face the trials by fire and water with the magic flute in tow. But Livermore {…}
(Credit: Hans Fahrmeyer) Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” is a work of consummate importance. Premiering on Jan. 2, 1843, it launched the famed composer in a new direction, cementing his legacy as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, composers of opera. This is an opera that the most beloved of Wagnerians would know inside and out. So here is {…}
Opera on the James, located in Lynchburg, Virginia named singer, director, and teacher, Marco Nisticò General Director this past June. Nisticò summed up his mission on the company’s website, saying, “[Opera] has the capacity to move, inspire, provoke thought, and entertain. It helps us to understand who we are and how we relate to each other. As director of Opera {…}
Federico Longhi is set to headline a production of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” at the Linz Landestheater in Austria. Longhi will make his role debut as the Conte di Luna adding another Verdi role to his repertoire which already includes Falstaff and Rigoletto, among others. In a press statement Longhi said: “I can’t wait for my debut in this role, another {…}
(Credit: BdPortraits.com) Pittance Chamber Music will present “Liv a Little” with soprano Liv Redpathon Jan. 11, 2020 at Barrett Hall at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. The concert, which will also feature clarinetist Stuart Clark, pianist Paul Floyd, violinist Ana Landauer, violnist Grace Oh, violist Shawn Mann, and cellist John Waltz. Redpath will perform Schubert’s “Shepherd on the Rock” as {…}