Carnegie Hall has announced its 2020-21 season featuring some of the greatest soloists and conductors in the world. For this article we will highlight the vocal performances of the season. Orchestras The season opens with the LA Philharmonic performing John Adams’ Tromba Lontana and Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Selections from Peer Gynt. Gustavo Dudamel conducts with soloists Liv Redpath and {…}
This week there are new releases from a recent Grammy winner, a Cardiff winner, and two well-known artists performing songs. Agrippina Coming off her Grammy win, Joyce DiDonato brings her acclaimed interpretation of Handel’s opera “Agrippina” in a complete CD recording. Performing alongside Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro, DiDonato is joined by a cast that also includes {…}
Performing Artservices, Inc. is set to revive “eL/Aficionado,” an opera by Robert Ashley on May 21-24, 2020 at New York Live Arts. The opera, which was written in 1987, has not been performed since 1995. It is scored for four voices and an orchestra of electronic voices and tells the story of a person on trial for her character and {…}
The Boston Baroque will perform a program of 18th-century works on April 8, 2020 as a part of the LA Philharmonic’s Presenting Series at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles. The first part of the concert will feature Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in F, J. S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 4 and Vivaldi’s sacred motet “Nulla in mundo pax sincera,” showcasing {…}
The Royal Opera House has announced a cast change for its HD broadcast of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company announced that due to illness, Russian soprano Aida Garifullina has withdrawn from singing the role of Musetta in on Jan. 29, 2020 As a result, the role will be sung by Romanian-born British soprano Simona Mihai, who sang both Musetta and {…}
The Long Beach Opera is set to present “Dream Variation” on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020 at the California African American Museum. The performance will celebrate works of composers of African descent throughout history, including Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Margaret Bonds, Anthony Davis, William Grant Still, and Moses Hogan, among others. The performance, which will be led by Dr. Derrell {…}
Every year the Tucson Guitar Society presents a recital in which a soloist is accompanied by guitar and it is always a crowd-pleaser. This year’s event, held on Wednesday January 22, 2020, in Tucson at the University of Arizona’s 200-seat Holsclaw Hall, starred tenor Ian Bostridge and guitarist Xuefei Yang gave a recital that included music by John Dowland, Benjamin {…}
It is hard for established labels to profitably market a new release – let alone for an independent one like Prima Classic. Long gone are the days when John Culshaw and Walter Legge spearheaded the industry, setting the standards by which every decade or so had its memorable Violetta. Prima Classics – with its reduced catalogue of only four titles {…}
(Credit: Frances Marshall) English National Opera has announced that the lyrico-spinto soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn will perform the title role in Verdi and Cammarano’s opera “Luisa Miller.” Llewellyn will join a cast that includes baritone Olafur Sigurdarson, tenor David Junghoon Kim, mezzo-soprano Christine Rice, bass Solomon Howard, soprano Nadine Benjamin and bass James Creswell. Alexander Joel is set to conduct the {…}
(Image Provided by San Francisco Performances) San Francisco Performances is set to present “Words & Music” on Feb. 8, 2020 at the Herbst Theatre. The showcase, which kicks off bright and early at 10 a.m. local time, will feature music by Beethoven as performed by bass-baritone Dashon Burton and host and lecturer Robert Greenberg. “While known for the abundance of {…}
(photo credit: Hunter Canning) La MaMa presented Object Collection’s utopian space-opera, “You Are Under Our Space Control” (YAUOSC) in an engrossing theatrical atmosphere that felt wildly predestined. Founded in 2004 by writer/director Kara Feely and composer/musician Travis Just, Object Collection values accumulation above cohesion. The group seeks to radically inspire moments of innovative thought with dense layers of creativity and {…}