Karen Slack, Nicole Car & Étienne Dupuis Lead Bravo! Vail Music Festival’s 2024 Season

The Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced its 37th Season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Fabio Luisi conducts “The American Songbook” with soloists Karen Slack and Issachah Savage and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The concert features Gershwin, Ornadel, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Johnson, and Dawson. Performance Date: June 28, 2024 Puccini’s “La Bohème” is set to star Nicole {…}

Melba Opera Trust & National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Launch ‘Salon Series’

(Photo credit: Charlie Kinross) Melba Opera Trust and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) have announced a new partnership, the “Salon Series – Beautiful Music in Historic Venues.” The collaboration brings a Melba Opera Trust’s up-and-coming artists into some of Victoria’s greatest historic heritage properties. The inaugural “Salon Series” will take place at three historic venues around Melbourne including the {…}

Royal Philharmonic Society Awards Announces Shortlist

A shortlist of this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Award recipients has been released. For the purposes of this article only opera related nominees are included. The full list can be found here.  Chamber-Scale Composition Nilufar Habibian – “Az nahāyate tāriki” (“From the deep end of darkness”) Conductor Alice Farnham; Alpesh Chauhan; François-Xavier Roth Ensemble BBC Singers; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Impact {…}

ArtSmart Receives Historic Pledge from Maria Manetti Shrem

ArtSmart has announced that it has received its first million-dollar donation over five years. The donation was donated by Philanthropist and Patron of the Arts Maria Manetti Shrem. Manetti Shrem’s donation demonstrates her commitment to ArtSmart’s successful program model, sustainability, scale, and impact. The transformative and historic donation will catapult ArtSmart’s impact on a national scale. In a statement, Executive {…}

Houston Grand Opera Unveils Finalists for 2024 Concert of Arias Competition

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has announced the finalists for its 2024 Concert of Arias. The finalists include soprano Alissa Goretsky, soprano Elizabeth “Hanje,” soprano Jouelle Roberson, soprano Jazmine Saunders, tenor Rafael Rojas, bass-baritone Sam Dhobhany, bass-baritone Ziniu Zhao, and bass Edwin Jhamaal Davis. “There is nothing more important to us at HGO than our annual search for the world’s finest emerging artists. {…}