The Pittsburgh Opera has announced three new members to the Board of Directors including Karen Roche Galey, Christopher Prichard, and Renée Cavalovitch. Cavalovitch has served as General Counsel and Board Secretary at Robert Morris University, serving as the university’s chief legal officer. Prichard is the Vice President and Wealth Management Senior Relationship manager at PNC Financial Services Group, specializing in {…}
The Pittsburgh Opera is set to debut “The Last American Hammer” on Feb. 22, 2020 with additional performances set for Feb. 25, 28, and March 1. The work, which features music by Peter Hilliard and a libretto by Matt Boresi, tells the story of one-man militia Milcom Negley, who rages against the tyranny of federal overreach. The work was commissioned {…}
The Handel + Haydn Society is set to showcase “Mozart + Haydn” on Jan. 24 and 26, 2020 at Symphony Hall Boston. The performance will showcase the Lord Nelson Mass under the musical direction of Harry Christopher. The mass has been called Haydn’s single most essential composition. “Lord Nelson Mass captures the swirling turmoil and drama of Napoleon’s wartime invasions that {…}
(Photo: J.Quast) Theater Regensburg’s new production of Vivaldi’s “La Fida Ninfa” was a bold, ambitious, and possibly even reckless, decision for a provincial opera company with a non-specialist baroque orchestra, and a group of singers who, with one or two exceptions, have limited experience in singing baroque opera. Yet, it is illustrative of the extent to which Vivaldi’s operas are {…}
Credits: Lithuanian National Opera Every year the Lithuanian Nation Opera starts the festive season with “Die Fledermaus.” The timeless production by Gediminas Šeduikis always causes laughter and a good mood, so the operetta remains in repertory yearly since its premiere back in 2016. But before we talk about the novelty of this year’s performances, it is essential to note that {…}
(Source: Vienna State Opera Official Website) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced that Paolo Rumetz will be singing the Jan. 7 and 10 performances of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” taking over for Wolfgang Bankl. Rumetz, who will take on the role of Don Bartolo, will join a cast led by Pavel Kolgatin as Almaviva, Tara Erraught as Rosina, Adam Plachetka {…}
The Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca has announced its 46th season. The festival is slated to take place between July 14 and August 2, 2020 and once again looks at rarely performed works and rediscovered works. Here is a look at this year’s programming. The first opera in the season will be Mercadante’s “La rappresaglia,” a comic melodrama {…}
Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg has named a new general director. The company announced that Alain Perroux will become the company’s director after the death of the much esteemed Eva Kleinitz. Perroux graduated from Haute École and the University of Geneve and became a music journalist at Le Temps from 1991 to 2001. He then became a dramaturg for {…}
(Credit: Karli Cadel) Over the past two season Steven LaBrie’s star has risen. He had breakouts with the New Amsterdam Opera and Teatro Nuovo and made major role debuts as well as house debuts with some of the United States’ major regional theaters including the San Diego Opera, Tulsa Opera, and Florida Grand Opera. This week LaBrie makes his long {…}
(credit:Philicia Endelman) For the second opera in their inaugural season, Los Angeles company Numi Opera presented Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s rarely-performed one-act comedy “Der Ring des Polykrates” at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School. Numi Opera, formed by Gail R Gordon, is dedicated to works by composers whose voices have been silenced, in particular by Hitler whose rise in the 1930s {…}
(Credit: Paola Kudacki / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera will open a new production of “Wozzeck” on Dec. 27, 2019 with Peter Mattei in the leading role. What is fascinating about “Wozzeck’s” history at the Met is that despite only 69 performances to date, there have been a whopping 14 different artists performing the title role (an average of about {…}