Erika Grimaldi, John Osborn, Sara Blanch & Gregory Kunde Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2024-25 Season

The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2024-25 season. “Manon” Renato Palumbo conducts Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” with Arnaud Bernard directing. The cast will include Erika Grimaldi, Dinara Alieva, Andeka Gorrotxategui, Carlo Ventre, Carlo Lepore, and Alessandro Luongo. Performance Dates: Oct. 1-26, 2024 Massenet’s “Manon” wil star Ekaterina Bakanova, Martina Russomanno, Bjorn Burger Maxim Lisiin, Atalla Ayan, Andrei Danilov, Roberto {…}

May 15, 2024

Sonya Yoncheva, Anna Pirozzi, Piotr Beczala & Sara Blanch Lead Festival Castell de Peralada’s 2024 Season

Spain’s Festival Castell de Peralada has announced its 2024 season. Here are the vocal performances. Piotr Beczala opens the season with Sarah Tysman in a program of songs by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and opera arias. Performance Date: July 19, 2024 Soprano Sonya Yoncheva and Ismael Jordi team up with Rubén Fernandez Aguirre for a program dedicated to zarzuela. Performance Date: {…}

May 15, 2024

Joseph Calleja Receives Order of Arts and Letters in France

Joseph Calleja has received the Order of Arts and Letters in France. The tenor took to social media and said, “It was a privilege to receive the ‘Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.’ My connection with France goes beyond opera thanks to Michael Tabone and our friends at Vins de Saint-Emilion. I would also like to thank Her Excellency {…}

May 15, 2024

Katharina Wagner Extends Contract with Bayreuth Festival

Katharina Wagner has renewed her contract with the Bayreuth Festival. In a statement, the festival said, “Minister of State Blume, Minister of State Roth, and Prof Katharina Wagner agreed on the further structural development of the Festival. The future festival management from 2025 should be able to concentrate fully on its artistic work.” It added, “It has been agreed that {…}

May 15, 2024

Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali Announces 2024-25 Season

The Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali has announced its 2024-25 season celebrating its 80th anniversary. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Diego Fasolis conducts Puccini’s “Le Villi” with Francesca Sassu, Tigran Melkonyan, and Marco Bussi. The program also features César Franck’s Prière. Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2024 Yi-Chen Lin conducts a program of music by Pietro Mascagni, Arnold Schönberg, and {…}

May 15, 2024

The Fourth Wall Ensemble to Make Carnegie Hall Debut

The Fourth Wall Ensemble is set to make its Carnegie Hall debut on June 3, 2024. The ensemble will present a live-to-picture U.S. premiere of five-time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal’s score for the Weimar Cinema masterpiece, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.” Jeff Beal, who also makes his debut in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, will lead the Silver Nitrate Big {…}

May 15, 2024

Renée Fleming Among Headliners of Tulsa Opera’s 2024-25 Season

Tulsa Opera has announced its 2024-25 season, which will feature five productions and concerts. “Tulsans love singing, instrumental music, dance, visual art, and theater,” said Artistic Director Aaron Beck in an official press release. “Opera has all of those and more. We chose our 2024-25 season with this in mind – a wide variety of works to cater to a {…}

May 15, 2024

Roulette Intermedium 2024 Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Foreign Experiences’

(Photo: Whitney Browne) Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium presented Robert Ashley’s “Foreign Experiences” (1994) on Saturday, May 11th, 2024 to an audience full of familiar faces in appreciation of avant-garde and experimental music. This work is part of Ashley’s opera tetralogy, “Now Eleanor’s Idea,” which also includes “Improvement (Don Leaves Linda),” “eL/Aficionado” and the stand-alone opera, “Now Eleanor’s Idea.” I have been {…}

May 15, 2024

Rice’s Shepherd School Announces Miguel Harth-Bedoya as Distinguished Resident Director of Orchestras

The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has announced that conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya will join the faculty as distinguished resident director of orchestras and professor of conducting. The conductor will begin his tenure as designate in the 2024-25 school year and will assume full responsibilities overseeing the Shepherd School’s preeminent orchestral programs in the 2025-26 season. Harth-Bedoya will succeed {…}

May 14, 2024

Obituary: Slovakian Soprano Ľubica Rybárska Dies at 65

Slovakian soprano Ľubica Rybárska has died at the age of 65. Born on July 13, 1958, in Martina, she went on to study singing at the Conservatory in Žilina and at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Following her studies, she began her career in 1983 when she became a member of the Slovak National Theatre Opera. Rybárska would {…}

May 14, 2024

Sesto Quatrini & Nino Machaidze to Appear in Two ‘Otello’ Operas in Frankfurt

Sesto Quatrini and Nino Machaidze are set to perform two “Otello” operas at Oper Frankfurt. Quatrini and Machaidze will first perform Rossini’s work from May 17 to June 15, 2024 and then will move straight into Verdi’s masterwork from June 22 to July 12, 2024. This marks Machaidze’s role debut as Desdemona in Verdi’s opera. She has previously sung Rossini’s {…}