Soprano Sally Silver has passed away after losing the battle to cancer. The soprano was the 2016 recipient of L’Académie du Disque Lyrique’s Orphée d’Or, following the success of her solo release, “Les amoureuses sont des folles,” with Richard Bonynge at the piano. Emily Gottlieb, chief executive of the National Opera Studio issued a statement this morning noting, “I am afraid {…}
Donizetti certainly had an intimate relationship with England’s Queen Elizabeth I, and with the Tudors in general, who provided him with a rich source of characters and themes for his operas. Three works have substantial roles for Elizabeth, herself; “Maria Stuarda” and “Roberto Devereux” are well-known and receive regular performances, whereas the third, “Il Castello di Kenilworth,” rarely receives a {…}
The world premiere recording of Liszt’s “Sardanapalo” is set to be released. Audite will release the new recording of Franz Liszt’s long-lost opera featuring Joyce El-Khoury, Airam Hernandez and Oleksandr Pushniak with the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Kirill Karabits. The work had its world premiere over the summer and El-Khoury told OperaWire, “The composition style is quite interesting in that {…}
Konstantin Chudovsky has been named chief conductor at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Russian conductor, who is currently the principal conductor of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, recently opened the Youth Program at the Theater an der Wien with a production of Rossini’s “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” and was invited by the Opera de Lyon to {…}
The Skylark Opera Theatre has announced its 2019 season featuring two very different works. Here is a glance at what to expect. Productions The first production of the season will be Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” directed by directed by Bob Neu and will be set in the present day. The work will be presented throughout the Historic Mound Theater. “‘Così {…}
Ainhoa Arteta is retiring one of her signature roles. The soprano announced that her performances on Nov. 23 and 25 of “La Traviata” at the Teatro Cervantes de Malaga would be her final run of the work. The run marked her return to the work, which she had not performed in 20 years. However, she wanted to return to it {…}
Andrea Bocelli has announced four special U.S. concert dates. The tenor’s team noted that he will be performing concerts at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver. That series of performances in June 2019 will feature the tenor’s return to to Sacramento and Denver for the first time in over five years; they also mark the first time he {…}
Since its premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin in 2012, the production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” by Barrie Kosky, Suzanne Andrade and Paul Barritt has enjoyed nothing short of a sensational journey throughout the world. And while still not near a decade into its existence, it continues to be a vehicle for the potential of breathing life into opera {…}
The Donizetti Festival has announced its 2019 festival featuring three operas. The festival will kick off the festival with “Pietro Il Grande, Czar Delle Russie.” The opera semi-seria, created in 1819, also known as “Il falegname di Livonia,” is rarely performed and last received a production at the Festival della Valle d’Itria in 2004. The second opera of the season {…}
Creator and librettist Cerise Jacobs’ first opera “Madame White Snake” is set to make its Hong Premiere. The opera, which had its premiere in Boston in 2010 and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for music the following year for the score by composer Zhou Long, is set to appear at the 47th Hong Kong Arts Festival in March {…}
The Festival Donizetti is set to present a new critical edition of “Lucrezia Borgia” in 2019. The news was revealed by Music Director Riccardo Frizza. According to the conductor, the new version will include new arias and will also showcase Donizetti’s first intentions with the piece. In the interview, the conductor also noted that his intentions with the festival were to {…}