Boston Baroque has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include five concerts. The season will open with two Classical symphonies: Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony No. 36 in C major, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 102 in B flat. Soprano Amanda Forsythe will perform a set of virtuosic arias including “Barbaro, o Dio, mi vedi” from Mozart’s “Il re pastore,” “Ruhe sanft, mein holdes {…}
San Francisco Symphony has announced its 2019-20 season, which marks the 25th and final season of Michael Tilson Thomas’ distinguished tenure as Music Director. For the purposes of this article, we will focus primarily on vocal performances. The season will start off with a concert led by Michael Tilson Thomas featuring tenor Nicholas Phan and cellist Oliver Herbert, along with {…}
L’Orchestre de Paris has announced its 2019-20 season! For the purposes of this article, we will focus primarily on vocal performances. The season will kick off with a concert led by Karina Canellakis, newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Dorothea Röschmann will be featured vocally, performing alongside the orchestra and chorus. The program is set to include {…}
The Chicago Opera Theater has announced its 2019-20 season with the company presenting three productions and a world premiere. Take a look at what the company is set to offer. The season will begin with a double-bill of Chicago premieres. The double bill will include “Everest,” by Joby Talbot with a libretto by Gene Scheer, and “Aleko” by Sergei Rachmaninov. {…}
Update: The Met Opera has announced that Kunde will sing all of performances that Antonenko was originally scheduled to sing. Tenor Gregory Kunde returned to the Metropolitan Opera on March 13, 2019, surprising audience members. The American tenor replaced Aleksandrs Antonenko in the second and third Act of “Samson et Dalila.” At the curtain call prior to the second act, {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment will take a look {…}
The Houston Grand Opera has announced that three new singers and one new pianist will be a part of the 2019-20 HGO Studio. These first-year students are bass-baritone Nicholas Newton, bass William Guanbo Su, and soprano Elena Villalón. Pianist and coach Alex Munger rounds out the new artists. Su is the second-place prizewinner at the Concert of Arias 2019 and {…}
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association and the Musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra have come to a new agreement for a four-year contract. The announcement was made on Tuesday, March 12 with the new agreement effective Sept. 16, 2019 and running through Sept. 10, 2020. Per a press release, the agreement was reached six months prior to the expiration of the current {…}
Rosalind Elias is one of America’s great mezzo-sopranos. She was born in Massachusetts as the 13th and youngest child in her family. She studied at the New England Conservatory and first appeared with the New England Opera between 1948-52. On Feb. 23, 1954, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut, a life-changing date for Elias. She would go on to sing {…}
The Pacific Opera Project is set to present an experimental version of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” The company will present the first-ever true-to-story bilingual “Madama Butterfly” with a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura. The production will present Puccini’s story as if it actually happened and attempt to answer {…}
Although few people would now recognize his name, Carlo Gesualdo, was one of the most fascinating musicians of the Italian Renaissance. Born into a rich noble family in 1566, he became increasingly obsessed with music over the course of his life, and is most famous for his colorful madrigals, which pushed at the limits of tonal music. However, he is {…}