Five Boroughs Music Festival is set to present “Cantatas, Yesterday and Today,” starring the Theotokos Ensemble on Dec. 7, 2023. The showcase, which will take place at St. Mary’s Church in New York, will feature two works Telemann (“Daß Herz und Sinn, o schwacher Mensch,” TWV 1:194 and “Endlich wird die Stunde schlagen,” TVW 1:440) alternating with two works by {…}
The Toledo Opera has received $47,500 from Board of Trustees of the Stranaham Supporting Organization of the Greater Toledo Community Foundation. The award will be used to increase participation in Toledo Opera’s education programs “An Opera Is a Story,” “Opera on Wheels,” and “Student Night at the Opera.” Per a press statement, the funding will allow the company to reach {…}
The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus is set to present “By the Hearth” on Dec. 3, 2023. The sing-along concert will continue the organization’s annual presentation of Händel’s “Messiah,” with audiences invited to join in. Arian Khaefi, La Jolla Symphony & Chorus’ Sally and Einar Gall Music Director and Chorus Conductor, will lead the event, which takes place at The {…}
M Premiere and Mundus Gala are set to present the Dubai Opera Ball on Nov. 18, 2023 at the Dubai Opera. The gala will be headlined by tenor Vittorio Grigolo, who recently withdrew from performances of “Don Carlo” at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo due to “personal reasons.” The production was set to open Nov. 22 and ran through Nov. 26, {…}
Opwer Leipzig has named a new Music Director. Repušić is a Croatian conductor who is Chief Conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra and the first permanent guest conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He is also the Chief Conductor of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra. He has recorded for BR-Klassik, CPO, and Warner Classics. In a statement via social media, the company said, “Welcome {…}
The Bilbao Opera is set to present Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.” The company will present the opera from Nov. 18 to 27, 2023, including the 1,100th performance in the company’s history. The Donizetti work will star Joel Prieto in the role of Nemorino, Elena Sancho Pereg as Adina, Pablo Ruiz as Belcore, and Paolo Bordogna as Dulcamara. The role of Giannetta will {…}
North/South Consonance, Inc. is set to celebrate the holiday season on Dec. 3 at 8 pm. The concert will feature vocal and instrumental music inspired by spiritual texts and will be held at the National Opera Center with no admission fee. The program will feature recent works by Wallace De Pue, Jee Seo, Max Lifchitz, and Joseph Santo as performed {…}
On Nov. 12, Conductor Julian Kovatchev died at the age of 63. Born in 1955 in Sofia, Sofia-Grad, Bulgaria, Kovatchev studied violin and at the age of five he made his first public concert. After his first music studies in Sofia, his family moved to Germany, near Salzburg, where he studied with Franz Samohyl at the Mozarteum and got his degree {…}
The Teatro dell’Opera id Roma is set to present Janáček’s “From the House of the Dead” on Rai5. The broadcast will be on Nov. 16 and will feature a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski. The showcase is a co-production with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden di Londra, La Monnaie, and l’Opéra National de Lyon. The cast includes Mark S. Doss {…}
On Nov. 16, Ailyn Pérez will make history at the Metropolitan Opera when she headlines the first-ever Latin American Opera in the company’s history (and only the third Spanish-language opera). The soprano will sing the title role of “Florencia en el Amazonas,” making her role debut and marking her first Spanish-language opera ever. The Mexican-American soprano will also headline her {…}
An exciting new project by New Camerata Opera, the animated short-film opera entitled “One Train,” bears the markers of a great path towards making opera more inviting. A joint effort by librettist Hannah McDermott and Hilary Purrington, the story weaves a path of awareness, magic and selflessness. It is bound to surprise even the most well-seasoned opera goer. This {…}
