The Berkshire Opera Festival has announced that it will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a special gala scheduled for August 13, 2020 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, MA. The event will feature music from major operas such as “The Marriage of Figaro, Die Fledermaus, and La Bohème.” Moreover, audiences will get a preview of the company’s {…}
Margareta Hallin has died at the age of 88. The soprano who was born on Feb. 20, 1931 in Karlskoga, Sweden and would make her debut as Rosina in Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” during her time as a student at the University College of Opera in 1955. A year later she joined the Royal Swedish Opera as a full-time {…}
(Credit: Benno Kraehahn) The Arena di Verona has announced the 2020 casting featuring an all-star lineup. The opening of the season will showcase a new production by Gabriele Muccino of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” Mascagni’s work will showcase Ekaterina Semenchuk, Alexia Voulgaridou, Maria José Siri, and Sonia Ganassi alternating as Santuzza and Murat Karahan, Carlo Ventre, Yusif Eyvazov, and Marcelo {…}
(Credit: Marco Borggreve) Gustavo Gimeno, the Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) since 2015, has extended his contract through the end of the 2024/25 season. In a press statement, Stephan Gehmacher, Director-General of the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the OPL, expressed his satisfaction over the extension of the agreement, adding that the orchestra has undergone an impressive development {…}
The Boston Baroque has announced its 2020-21 season featuring Music Director and Conductor Martin Pearlman in all productions at the NEC’s Jordan Hall. For the purposes of this article will only highlight the vocal performances. Soprano Susanna Phillips will perform arias from Handel’s operas “Alcina,” “Partenope,” “Giulio Cesare,” and “Semele” in a concert. Music Director Martin Pearlman conducts Boston Baroque’s {…}
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and there is arguably no art form that captures the essence of love moreso than opera. With that in mind, we looked around and picked operas that probably won’t cater to ideal feelings of love, but are powerful in their own rights and would probably make for unbelievable nights at the opera. Frida – Anchorage Opera, {…}
The Kurt Weil Foundation For Music announced 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition semi-finalists. This is the full list of young artists who have made to the semi-finals: Michael Aiello, Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod, David Anderson, Zarah Brock, Anighya Crocker, Michael Day, Darren Drone, Kaden Forsberg, Crystal Glenn, Dylan Glenn, Rivers Hawkins, Jonathan Heller, Michael Hewitt, Jonah Hoskins, Elena Howard-Scott, Stephanie Jabre, Gemma {…}
This weekend is Valentine’s Day so we tried to choose works with great love stories. Here are this weekend’s top five operas to see! Don Carlos – Opera Royal de Wallonie, Belgium Gregory Kunde sings the final performance of Verdi’s epic in the title role. He is joined by Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Kate Aldrich, Lionel Lhote, and Roberto Scandiuzzi. Paolo Arrivabeni {…}
(Credit: Yan Bleney) Soprano Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis do not like to be apart. The two stars, who are currently at the Metropolitan Opera individually taking on two thirds of the Da Ponte and Mozart trilogy, not only share a home, a two-year-old boy, and as many productions as they can, but this very interview. When it was proposed {…}
The Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont’s only professional opera company, will open its 2020 season with Tchaikovsky’s “The Maid of Orleans.” The opera will get three performances on June 11, 13, and 15, 2020 at the Wright Memorial Theatre on the campus of Middlebury College. The production will be fully staged by Douglas Anderson and will be conducted by Principal Guest {…}
Victory Hall Opera will present “Breaking the Sound Barrier: Deaf Opera Workshop” on Feb. 27, 2020 at the Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia. The event will be presented in conjunction UVA’s Disability Studies Symposium. The workshop will present a reinterpretation of Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” in which three Deaf actors will work with three hearing opera singers {…}
