The Bilbao Opera is set to open its 2024-25 season with Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale.” The opera, which will be performed from Oct. 19 to 28, 2024 at the Euskalduna Bilbao, returns to the company after being performed on four occasions. The opera was first shown in 1958 with Renata Scotto and Alfredo Kraus, and later in 1995 with Carlos Chausson {…}
The Teatro Carlo Felice is set to present its inaugural concert on Oct. 17, 2024. The concert will see Riccardo Miansi conduct Beethoven’s “Egmont” for soprano, voce recitante, and orchestra and Haydn’s “Missa in tempore belli.” The evening will showcase Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia as the voice recitante, soprano Benedetta Torre, mezzo-soprano Laura Verrecchia, tenor Matteo Falcier, and baritone Alessandro Luongo. This {…}
The XIX Cartagena Music Festival has unveiled its programming to kick off 2025. The focus will be music from the Iberian Peninsula. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. “Canciones con Aire Colombiano” will feature mezzo-soprano Paola Leguizamón and pianist Alejandra Roca taking on five songs by Jaime León Ferro as well as a song by Antonio {…}
Emmy-winning composer and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is set to make history with the world premiere of his opera, “Loksi’ Shaali’” (“Shell Shaker”). The world’s first opera composed entirely in an American Indian language, “Loksi’ Shaali” tells the Chickasaw origin story of the tribe’s sacred turtle shell shakers, integral to traditional stomp dancing and social songs, {…}
The Dallas Opera is set to perform Debussy’s “Pelléas and Mélisande” for the first time. The Debussy premiere will be presented at the Winspear Opera House from Nov. 8 through Nov. 16, 2024 and will star Internationally renowned baritone Benjamin Appl makes his mainstage debut with The Dallas Opera as Pelléas, alongside soprano Lauren Snouffer as Mélisande. They will be {…}
Tenor Leonardo Navarro has died at the age of 38. The Teatro Municipal de Santiago announced the news noting “We deeply regret the passing of opera singer Leonardo Navarro, who with his voice and talent gave life to various opera characters on this and other national and international stages. We share his family and friends’ sorrow. May he rest in {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra has unveiled the second half of its 2024-25 season. (To check out the first half, click here.) Here is a rundown of the vocal and operatic performances on offer. Riccardo Muti will conduct Verdi’s Requiem with a star-studded quartet of singers. Soloists include Juliana Grigoryan, Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, and Ildebrando d’Arcangelo. Performance Date: March 27, 2025 {…}
Twice-impeached and 34-time convicted felon Donald Trump is at it again playing Pavarotti during a Presidential campaign event. This time at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania on Oct. 14, the former President played recordings of Luciano Pavarotti after his town hall was cut short after two attendees needed medical attention. According to reports, Trump was being asked questions from {…}
(Photo credit: Markus Gårder) The Royal Swedish Opera has announced Gasometer will be its stage while the opera house’s renovations take place. The unique gas clock in Stockholm is currently being constructed into a stage space for opera, ballet, and classical music. Gasometer is housed in a former industrial building in the Norra Djurgårdsstaden, a part of Stockholm which has {…}
The Bergen International Festival has named William Kentridge the Artist in Residence for the 2025 season. The festival announced that Festival Director Lars Petter Hagen invited two of the South African artist’s stage productions to Bergen. The Bergen International Festival 2025 will open with Kentridge’s latest performance, “The Great Yes, The Great No,” which had its world premiere this past {…}
(Photo courtesy of Min-On Concert Association) The 2024 Tokyo International Conducting Competition, organized by Min-On Concert Association, dropped its curtain at the Opera City Concert Hall in Tokyo yesterday. Thirty-five-year old Greek candidate Kornilios Viktor Michailidis was awarded 1st Prize as well as the Orchestra Award, bagging home 2 million Japanese Yen cash prize. A graduate of the Jacobs School {…}