Malin Byström, Gaëlle Arquez, Dame Sarah Connolly, Golda Schultz, Saimir Pirgu Headline Edinburgh International Festival’s 2024 Season

The Edinburgh International Festival has unveiled its 2024 slate. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. First up is the Scottish premiere of “La Pasión Según San Marcos” by Golijov. Joana Carneiro leads the Orquesta La Pasión and Musicians from the RSNO. Performance Date: August 3, 2024 The formal opening the festival is a performance featuring the BBC {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Musical Extravaganza Announces New Concert Series

Musical Extravaganza has announced its concert series, which will debut in Bucharest. The series offers opera and operetta in a more personal setting. Tenor and creator of the concert series, Ştefan von Korch says in a press release, “Musical Extravaganza concerts are intended to offer the public the joy of meeting resonant names of the lyrical scene, in a smaller {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Four Essential Operas by Women Composers

(Photo credit: Christophe-Abramowitz) Throughout time, women have routinely been at the bad end of the deal when it came to composing, performing, or really anything that has to do with music. However, as we now know that didn’t mean women composers, performers, critics, and everything in between didn’t exist. Actually, the opposite! Composers like Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Clara {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Northern Ireland Opera 2023-24 Review: The Juniper Tree

Fairytales have not been kind to stepmothers. Usually depicted as jealous, manipulative and vicious, with a predilection for maltreating, disinheriting and murdering their stepchildren, stepmothers are probably on par with another favorite hate figure of the genre, the wicked witch. A typical example is found in “The Juniper Tree,” taken from Grimms’ Fairytales, published in 1812. This stepmother is not {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle to Be Presented for Easter

Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle is set to be presented for Easter. The concert will be held at the Teatro Alighieri Ravenna on March 24, 2024. Paolo Olmi is set to conduct the Young Musicians European Orchestra with soloists Irene Celle, Annalisa Stroppa, Stefano Colucci, and Mirco Palazzi. The Coro della Catedrale di Siena “Guida Chigi Saracini” and the Liatoshynskyi Capella {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present ‘The Dichter Project: Paul Heyse’

Brooklyn Art Song Society is set to present The Dicther Project: Paul Heyse. The concert will be held on March 17, 2024, our annual Dichter Project returns to the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The series has been exploring musical settings of the greatest German poets set by the greatest lieder composers, and this year’s installment will center on Paul Heyse, {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Saimir Pirgu Joins Intermusica for Management

Tenor Saimir Pirgu has joined the Intermusica roster for worldwide general management (excluding Italy). Pirgu will be managed by Nathan Morrison, Associate Director, Vocal & Opera. This season the tenor returns to Opernhaus Zürich as Don José in “Carmen,” a role which he will later perform this summer at the Edinburgh International Festival. He is also set to make his {…}

Mar 8, 2024

Renée Fleming Hosts the LA County’s Annual Arts and Health Week Summit With LA Opera

(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) LA Opera holds the LA County Annual Arts and Health Week Summit with soprano Renée Fleming as advisor, advocate, and host. LA Opera’ is collaborating with Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, First District; the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; and Healing Arts, an initiative of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab {…}

Mar 7, 2024

Lisette Oropesa, Elīna Garanča, Christian Van Horn Headline Met Orchestra’s First-Ever Asia Tour

(Credit: Steven Harris ) The Metropolitan Opera has announced its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia tour, which will take place between June 19-30, 2024 in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. One program features music from “Der Fliegende Holländer,” “Pelléas et Mélisande,” and the entirety of “Bluebeard’s Castle,” starring Elīna Garanča and Christian Van Horn. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Performance Date: June 19 (Seoul), June {…}

Mar 7, 2024

Sae-Kyung Rim, Kang Wang, & Phillip Rhodes To Perform at Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Opera Gala

Soprano Sae-Kyung Rim, tenor Kang Wang, and baritone Phillip Rhodes are set to perform at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Opera Gala. The trio will perform selections by Giacomo Puccini, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. They are joined by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and the Voices of Birralie Choir. Guest conductor Maestro Giordano Bellincampi directs. Opera {…}

Mar 7, 2024

Francesca Dotto Leads ‘Maria Egiziaca’ at the Teatro La Fenice

The Teatro Mailbran is set to present Respighi’s “Maria Egiziaca.” The opera, which is presented as part of the Teatro La Fenice’s 2023-24 season will open on March 8 and run through March 16, 2024. The production will be by Pier Luigi Pizzi and will be conducted by Manlio Benzi. Francesca Dotto leads a cast that includes Vincenzo Costanzo, Simone {…}