The Metropolitan Opera has announced a concert by the Kyiv Camerata, Ukraine’s leading chamber ensemble on April 28 at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. The concert will showcase the ensemble in the United States for the first time since 1998 and they will perform an all-Ukrainian program of North American premieres conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson featuring acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and {…}
The Associazione Ettore Bastianini has announced Amartuvshin Enkhbat as the 2024 Premio Bastianini. The Mongolian baritone will be given the award at a ceremony on May 3, 2024 at the Piazza Scalette Rubiani 1 in Verona. The award is given every two years and has already seen such recipients as Simone Piazzola, Nicola Alaimo, Dmitry Hvorostovsky posthumously, and Luca Salsi. Enkhbat {…}
This week a new production of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” is set to open at the famed Salzburg Easter Festival. The opera, which is rarely performed, required six of the greatest voices and the festival lined up a star cast including rising star Eve-Maud Hubeaux, who is set to portray her first Laura. Over the past years, the mezzo has become {…}
The National Council of the Arts is set to meet on March 27, 2024 in Washington D.C. The event will feature the participation of numerous major arts organizations who will be featured in panels and discussions regarding the state of art in the U.S. The “How Did We Get Here?” panel, which explores the challenges modern art organizations, cultural venues, {…}
The Dallas Opera has announced that it will be releasing free digital streams of its recent productions over the course of the next six months. First up is “Rigoletto” from 2022, directed by Tomer Zvulun and starring George Gagnidze, Madison Leonard, and René Barbera. Emmanuel Villaume conducts. Streaming Dates: April 1 – May 31, 2024 Then comes “Hansel and Gretel,” also {…}
The Lauritz Melchior International Singing Competition has announced the finalists for its 2024 edition. Finalists include: Tenor Artjoms Safronovs (Latvia) Mezzo-soprano Deirdre Angenent (Netherlands) Tenor Fareth Dafydd Morris (U.K.) Soprano Hedvig Haugerud (Norway) Tenor James Edgar Knight (Australia) Soprano Joanna Parisi (Italy) Soprano Johanna Will (Germany) Soprano Lena Kutzner (Germany) Tenor Matthew Arnold (U.S.A.) Soprano Meredith Bloomfield (U.S.A.) Tenor Samuel {…}
Santa Fe Pro Musica is staging two performances of Mozart’s “Requiem,” conducted by Thomas O’Connor, the weekend of April 27th and April 28th 2024. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, featuring soprano Sherezade Panthaki, alto Meg Bragle, tenor Thomas Cooley, and bass-baritone Douglas Williams, will accompany the Pro Musica Orchestra in presenting the Austrian master’s final work. The 75-minute program opens {…}
“The Comet / Poppea,” a revolutionary fusion of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1924 story “The Comet,” and “The Coronation of Poppea,” Claudio Monteverdi’s 1643 Italian opera, will debut with 11 performances at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) June 14th-23rd, 2024. The show, presented by MOCA in collaboration with The Industry, an LA based opera company, is directed by Yuval {…}
On March 20, 2024, the Metropolitan Opera was forced to present Puccini’s “Turandot” in a sem-staged version after a stage elevator jammed. According to the Associated Press, Met General Manager Peter Gelb made an announcement before the performance stating, “I’m sorry to say that this is not going to be a normal night at the opera — not that when {…}
Alabama’s Opera Birmingham is joining forces with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra to present “Tunes on Tap / Opera Shots” on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Back Forty Beer Co. The event is part of the company’s casual pop-up concerts throughout the community. The event will feature soprano Kathleen Farrar Buccleugh who will take on music from “La Bohème,” “Sweeney Todd,” {…}
The Cincinnati May Festival has announced that Jason Alexander Holmes will be the new Associate Director of Choruses and Director of the Youth Chorus. Holmes has served as Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Boychoir since 2019 and also directs the MLK Chorale and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Classic Roots Community Chorus. He has also worked with such organizations as The Carnegie {…}