(Photo: Elisa Andreassi) Barocco Europeo, founded by Donatella Busetto, is a small association aimed at promoting early music through concerts, masterclasses, seminars and staged operas mainly, although not exclusively, in the north-east of Italy. It is a small-scale operation on a limited budget and tends to perform in small theaters in towns and cities of various sizes, with variable opportunities {…}
(Photo: Janina Laszlo) The big hit at this year’s Wexford Festival Opera was undoubtedly Marco Tutino’s opera “La Ciociara,” which tells the story of two women’s desperate bid to survive during the turmoil of the allied invasion of Italy. The star of the performance was Israeli mezzo-soprano Na’ama Goldman in the role of Cesira. Over a coffee, OperaWire quizzed the {…}
The Orchestra of The Bronx has released its lineup for the month of December. Handel’s “Messiah” will be performed by conductor Michael Spierman and The Bronx Opera Chorus. They will be joined by guest readers from around the Bronx community including college presidents, political figures, newspaper editors, a Bronx honor student, a waiter at a popular Bronx restaurant, jazz artist {…}
Guildhall School of Music and Drama has unveiled its Spring 2024 events. Here is a rundown of the vocal and operatic performances on offer. Pianist William Bracken, violinist Krystof Kohout, and soprano Manon Ogwen will present a recital at Milton Court Hall and Carnegie Hall. The showcase will feature a world premiere by Ben Pease Barton as well as music {…}
Since the age of 17, Sophia Lambton has engaged in a full-fledged career as a writer. The writer of the novel, “The Crooked Little Pieces,” she has been published as a music critic with her work appearing in such publications as Musical Opinion, The Guardian, Bachtrack, musicOMH, BroadwayWorld, BBC Music Magazine, and OperaWire. While embarking on numerous projects during that time, {…}
The Director of the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo Ramiro Osorio, has been named Honorary Academic of the Academia de Artes Escénicas de España The title was given to Osorio on Nov. 27 and was in recognition of his work over the years to establish bridges between Colombia and Spain. In 2022 and 2023, the Teatro Mayor invited Spain {…}
The Long Beach Opera has announced it has received the largest single gift in the company’s history of $1.25 million from long-time Board member Carol Richards. Richards served on LBO’s Board from the company’s inception in 1979 until her passing in 2021, at which time she included Long Beach Opera in her estate plans with this historic gift. The company {…}
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman’s latest opera “Lili Elbe” is set to stream on Dec. 8, 2023 on OperaVision. The work, which premiered on Oct. 22, 2023 at the Konzert und Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland was commissioned for the reopening of the newly renovated art-brut style Theater St. Gallen. It marks the first grand opera written {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) George Gagnidze has joined Centre Stage Artist Management for General Management. The baritone took to social media and said, “I am very happy to announce that I have joined the roster of Centre Stage Artist Management for general management. Starting today, Jonathan Letts and Francesca Condeluci (USA) will be representing me worldwide and I’m so excited about {…}
The production history of Jacques Offenbach’s “La Princesse de Trébizonde” is convoluted to say the least. It premiered twice, once in Baden-Baden and once at the Bouffes-Parisiens in 1869. In between both versions, it was reworked extensively; pastiches from the unpublished “La Baguette” were removed and Offenbach wrote a whole new act in a bid to align the narrative of {…}
Valery Gergiev has officially been named the Bolshoi Theatre’s new General Director. The Russian government’s Telegram account said Gergiev’s term will “be a five-year term under an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail V. Mishustin.” Gergiev will replace Vladimir Urin who according to the Telegram account was “relieved of this position at his own request.” The news comes only weeks {…}