Festival Napa Valley has announced it is introducing a “Choose Your Price” ticket model for the 2025 Summer Season. This will be the first in the region and the new option, launching in March with single-ticket sales, advances the Festival’s Arts for All mission by allowing attendees to select ticket prices that fit their budgets. In a statement, Rick Walker, {…}
Markus Poschner has been appointed the eighth Music Director of the Utah Symphony in its 84-year history. Poschner will assume the role of Music Director Designate immediately and will take on full duties as Music Director during the 2027-28 season. In a statement, the conductor said, “The opportunity to serve as the next Music Director of the Utah Symphony—to make {…}
(Photo credit: Boston Lyric Opera) Works & Process announces its 40th anniversary season taking place in spring 2025. For the purposes of this article only opera events are included. Fortieth Works & Process at the Guggenheim Series – Performance Highlights and Discussions Excerpts from Sarah Ruhl and Anthony Roth Costanzo’s reimagining of Vivaldi “The Seasons” are performed prior to its {…}
Opera Lafayette is the recipient of a $410,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The grant will support the performance and recording of “Morgiane” by Edmond Dédé, the earliest existing opera by a Black American. The opera will be conducted by Quigley the world premiere showcases in February 2025 at Lincoln Theatre in Washington, Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York {…}
(Credit: Robert Young) Berkeley Symphony has announced that Music Director Joseph Young will conclude his tenure at the end of the 2024-25 season, marking six years of artistic leadership. In a statement, Young said, “The Berkeley Symphony is a respected, adventurous orchestra, and I am proud of all that we have accomplished together. From our very first performances, the musicians {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive Strauss’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The production by Herbert Wernicke, which premiered on Dec. 13, 2001, and was last revived in 2013, will star soprano Elza van den Heever in her Met role debut as the Empress, soprano Lise Lindstrom in her Met role debut as the Dyer’s Wife, {…}
Benjamin Appl’s Querétaro concert in Mexico due to security measures. The baritone took to social media and said, “Due to security measures we were not allowed to perform in Querétaro, which detoured our tour to Guadalajara. I had time to visit the stunning Hospicio cabañas with the paintings by José Clemente Orozco. What a place!” He also posted some pictures {…}
Pierre Audi, General Director of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, has appointed Olivier Leymarie as Deputy General Director of the Festival. The news was announced after the deliberation of a jury chaired by Paul Hermelin, Chairman of the Festival’s Board of Directors, and including state and local authority representatives, as well as several qualified members of the Board. Leymarie will take up {…}
Raising a child is a complicated process. Raising a prodigious one is absolutely unforeseen and fraught with constant error, for no ordinary laws apply here. The Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, although still an officious event, always seemed to be this prodigy for me, every year somehow attempting to prove that Donizetti’s music might be the center of the opera world. {…}
(Photo: Gianfranco Rota) As part of the Donizetti Opera Festival (DOF), the stage came to life with “Don Pasquale,” the renowned opera buffa by Gaetano Donizetti, one of the last and most refined jewels of Italian bel canto. This production in Bergamo not only pays homage to the composer in his hometown but also celebrates the tenth anniversary of its {…}
Following the cancelation of Ildar Abdraekov’s performance at the Teatro San Carlo, Vice President of the European Parliament Pina Picierno has released a statement applauding teh decision. Picierno took to social media and said, “Abdrazakov is one of Vladimir Putin’s loyalists, and listed among the ‘war enablers,’ that is, among the active supporters of the war by the Anti-Corruption Foundation {…}
