(Credit: Marty Sohl/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera House is a dream for every opera singer. This week acclaimed coloratura soprano and rising star Brenda Rae will get a chance to realize that very dream when she makes her Met debut in the company’s first-ever production of Handel and Grimani’s “Agrippina.” Rae, who is a former ensemble member of Oper Frankfurt {…}
(Credit: Johannes Ifkovits) The Vienna State Opera will live stream Dvorak and Kvapil’s “Rusalka” on Feb. 4, 2020. The opera will feature Piotr Beczala, Elena Zhidkova, Jongmin Park, Olga Bezsmertna, and Monika Bohinec in the production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf. The work will be conducted by Tomas Hanus. The stream kicks off at 7 p.m. local time. That’s around 1p.m. EDT {…}
Soprano Karen Slack is set to present a recital alongside pianist Reed Tetzloff on Feb. 18 at The Revelation Gallery at St. John’s in the Village in New York. On the 23rd, the duo will repeat the recital at Jacobs Music in Trenton, New Jersey. The program for both showcases will feature songs by Schubert, R. Strauss, Turina, Ravel, H.L. {…}
The Kentucky Opera has announced its 2020-21 season celebrating its 69th season. The season will feature three productions all performed at the Brown Theatre. The season will also celebrate love and community through a modern lens. Casting and production details are set to be announced. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème,” one of the most popular operas in the repertory {…}
Sydney-based Carriageworks is set to showcase the Australian premiere of artist Mette Edvardsen and composer Matteo Fargion’s Opera Essay “Penelope Sleeps” on March 10-11. The performance will feature Edvardsen, Fargion, and Hicks as they explore the relationship between voice and music, space and scale. “In ‘Penelope Sleeps’ the experimental approach and work with the format of the medium is still in question,” {…}
Faymous will present the second installment of “A Night of Opera at the Box” on Feb. 29, 2020, with proceeds going to Sing for Hope. The showcase, which will take place for one-night only at The Box in New York City, will present a re-imagined look at Verdi and Piave’s “Rigoletto.” In this version, the opera will take place at {…}
The opera aria is one of the best-known passages of any work. So for this week’s edition of the word search we ask you to find in the missing word from each of these solo passages. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of {…}
(Photo: Dario Acosta) Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham has had an enviable career, winning such prestigious awards as a Grammy, an Opera News Award, and Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year. As a champion of the French repertoire, the French government honored her with the title of “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.” Her roles span four centuries, singing in operas from Monteverdi’s {…}
(Credit: David Elofer) The Opéra National de Paris has announced the cast change for the role of Mimì in the Puccini, Giacosa and Illica’s opera “La bohème,” according to the official statement on the company’s website. Per the statement, soprano Marina Costa-Jackson has withdrawn from the production due to maternity leave and Ekaterina Siurina will thus perform in her stead {…}
“Voce d’un angelo” was a term often used to describe Renata Tebaldi’s musicianship. That is undeniably the impression that she gave me in my first encounter with her artistry, in a famed recording of “Otello” under Herbert von Karajan. The purity and elegance of her singing was the perfect match for the role of Desdemona, which is undeniably one of {…}
Cinelife Entertainment and CinemaLive are set to showcase “Rigoletto on the Lake” across U.S. Cinemas between Feb. 10-16, 2020. Audiences will get a chance to see the famed production of the Verdi and Piave opera from the Bregenz Festival, which OperaWire called a “feat of creative imagination, combining technical achievement with emotional richness, this interpretation of the Verdi score is {…}