The Longborough Festival Opera is set to launch a new Ring Cycle in 2019. The cycle will kick off in June 2019 with a new production of “Das Rheingold.” Per a press release, this first installment will feature showcases on June 5, 7, 9, and 11. In June 2020, Wagner’s “Die Walküre” will get a new staging, followed by “Siegfried” {…}
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Kicking off the 2019-20 season is “James Gaffigan Leads Debussy and Roussel,“ to be held in the Royal Concert Hall’s Large Hall. James Gaffigan will conduct the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in an evening of French works of exotic influence. {…}
It’s Black History Month and a time to celebrate the achievements of the black community and how they have affected change around the world in all areas. The opera world is no exception with many great black artists dominating around the globe in the biggest theaters there are. In celebration, some of OperaWire’s staff members have picked their favorite black {…}
There are good singers, there are good actors, and there are good performers. but it is a miracle of the arts when you can find all three of them combined in the same artist, as is the case with Bryn Terfel. What this bass-baritone presented on the stage of Teatro Real on Feb. 22, 2019 was something rarely seen or {…}
Fresh Squeezed Opera is set to showcase the New York Premiere of Huang Ruo’s “Bound” in a production by Ashley Tata on April 13-18, 2019. The work will be presented at the Rose Nagelberg Theatre and is supported by a grant from the Mills-Tanenbaum Foundation. The chamber opera was inspired by the headline “Diane Tran, Honor Student at Texas High {…}
The North London Chorus is set to honor the late Sally Silver at a concert on March 9, 2019 in an effort to raise funds to support Brain Tumour Research. Silver was a South African soprano who won the 2016 L’Académie Du Disque Lyrique’s Orphée D’Or and was a regular performer with such organizations as London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic {…}
What would you choose: love or game? This is the central question facing Herman, the protagonist of “The Queen of Spades.” It’s also one that the authors had to confront. Pushkin wrote his story from a social perspective and analyzed how addiction can ruin lives. So in his analysis, Herman was an addicted player and Liza was just a victim. {…}
The Wagner Society has awarded its Reginald Goodall Award to the Longborough Festival Opera’s co-founders Martin and Lizzie Graham. The Grahams are set to receive The Reginald Goodall award at a ceremony at The Royal Over-Seas League in London on March 20, 2019. The award is given to individuals who have honored the famed composer and his work. Among those previously honored with {…}
The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod has announced that Dr. Edward-Rhys Harry will join the festival as its ninth music director. The organization announced that Edward, an internationally renowned music director, will work to encourage the next generation of solo artists at the 2019 Llangollen Eisteddfod. In a press release Chairman of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Dr Rhys Davies, said, “As a {…}
OperaVision will start streaming Vivaldi’s “Juditha Triumphans” from the Dutch National Opera and Ballet on Feb. 28, 2019. The baroque opera will feature Gaëlle Arquez, Teresa Iervolino, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Francesca Ascioti, Polly Leech, and Gloria Giurgola with Andrea Marcon conducting and Floris Visser directing. The stream kicks off at 7 p.m. local time. That’s around 1 p.m. EDT and 10 {…}
German baritone Ekkehard Wlaschiha has died at the age of 80. The baritone, who passed away on Feb. 20, was born in Pirna, Saxony, and studied music at the Musikhochschule in Weimar. The baritone started his operatic career at the Theater Gera and went on to perform at the Sächsisches Landestheater Dresden-Radebeul, the Nationaltheater Weimar, and the Leipzig Opera. He became a member of the {…}
