Opera San Jose has announced its 2019-20 season which includes four of the most popular operas in the repertoire. The company has yet to announce casting for its productions. The season kicks off with Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” with Michael Morgan, Music Director of Festival Opera in Walnut Creek conducting the operetta. Marc Jacobs will return to direct this production. Performance Dates: {…}
Roulette recently presented world-renowned vocalist and sound artist Joan La Barbara’s “What’s Left of Me Is Here,” from her opera-in-progress with librettist Monique Truong titled “Dreams of Water Beyond One’s Depth.” Pushing boundaries of thought and expression via singing and an emotionally vast range of design, La Barbara’s musical composition is reminiscent of Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw.” Together, {…}
This weekend is all about the stars. From Vienna to Germany to the United Kingdom, every cast has some of the world’s greats performing. Check out this weekend’s picks! Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci – Wiener Staatsoper, Austria Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production continues at the Vienna house with a starry cast that includes Yonghoon Lee singing Turiddu and Fabio Sartori as Canio. Elina Garanca stars {…}
In our selections for this weekend’s top picks, we examine a few classic masterpieces with some solid casting as well as some new operas that are gaining some traction across the continent. Here is a look at our selections, in alphabetical order by company. La Bohème – Dallas Opera On Saturday evening, audiences will get a chance to check out {…}
The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is set to showcase “Rising Stars in Concert” on April 7, 2019. The event, which will take place at the Lyric Opera House, will feature sopranos Whitney Morrison, Emily Pogorelc, and Ann Toomey; mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker; contralto Lauren Decker; tenors Eric Ferring, Josh Lovell, and Mario Rojas; baritones Christopher Kenney and Ricardo José Rivera; bass-baritones Alan {…}
Ojai Youth Opera will present the world premiere of its first original commissioned work “Nightingale & The Tower” this May. Rebecca Comerford, Mikael Jorgensen, and Jason Treuting’s new work is an electric chamber opera for six adult singers, 29 youth OYO members, synthesizers, chamber orchestra, and earth harp. Comerford, OYO Founder and Artistic Director, remarks that the opera’s story, which follows “a young boy’s odyssey {…}
Music of Remembrance is set to showcase composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason’s new chamber opera “The Parting” on May 19, 2019 at the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle. The performance, which will kick off at 7:30 p.m. local time, will feature baritone Michael Mayes alongside mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook and soprano Laura Strickling. Erich Parce will direct {…}
Monteverdi’s “The Return of Ulysses” will be showcased at the Pinchgut Opera on June 13-19, 2019. The production will feature tenor Fernando Guimaraes as the legendary hero. He previously performed in Australia Brandenburg Orchestra’s “Handel: Heaven.” He was nominated for a Grammy in 2015 for his work in “The Return of Ulysses.” The production will also feature mezzo-soprano Catherine Carby {…}
ALL ARTS’s music series “The Set List” is set to showcase Joyce DiDonato’s “Song Play” performance at Lincoln Center as part of the American Songbook series. The stream will premiere on Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 8 p.m. and will run for approximately one and a half hours. Among the pieces performed are “Caro mio ben,’ “The Masquerade is Over,” {…}
I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth are set to work alongside director Thomas Guthrie and designer Ruth Paton to showcase Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” at the York Early Music Festival on July 5, 2019 with an additional showcase at LSO St. Luke’s in London on July 7. The production is set to utilize ancient Greek techniques of masks and puppets to tell the {…}
The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include six new productions and dozens of revivals with some of opera’s greatest stars. New Productions The first new production of the season will be Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino.” The production will be directed by Frank Castorf and will star Russell Thomas and Marcelo Alvarez as Don Alvaro. {…}