Carlos Aragón has joined GoDirect for General Management. The conductor / pianist is known for his wide-ranging repertory which features everything from baroque to romanticism, including works by Händel, Vivaldi, Hasse, Porpora, Pergolesi, Donizetti, Verdi, and Puccini, among others. Among the operas he has conducted are “La Cenerentola,” “Suor Angelica,” “Otello,” “Tosca,” “La Clemenzi di Tito,” and “Rigoletto.” Aragón has {…}
The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, is set to open its new season with “Crickets in our Backyard.” The concert will take place on Sept. 16, 2023, at The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. The concert will feature the world premiere of Tania León’s “Singsong,” based on the US Poet Laureate Rita Dove’s cricket poems and featuring renowned flutist and {…}
Conductor Gil Rose has joined the roster of Athlone Artists. Rose has performed with a number of major companies including the Tanglewood Opera Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the National Symphony of Ukraine, the Matsumoto Festival of Japan, the New York City Opera, and the Juilliard Symphony, among others. He is also the founder of Boston {…}
The Patterson Foundation is joining Sarasota Opera’s effort to boost earned income by matching up to $50,000 in growth capital investments toward its Sarasota Opera Costume Studio. Sarasota Opera is one of the regional nonprofit organizations currently participating in the Patterson Foundation’s Margin & Mission Ignition. The initiative helps nonprofits develop and implement an earned-income plan to strengthen their impact {…}
The Canadian Opera Company is set to open its 2023-24 with Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” The opera, which will run from Sept. 29 to Oct. 20, 2023, will be directed by Matthew Ozawa. In a statement, the director said, “I would say the biggest takeaway [I would hope for audiences] is that someone comes away from Fidelio reminded that they have the {…}
(Photo credit: Allison-Michael-Orenstein, Thomas Leonard, Stefan Ruiz, & the Lyric Opera of Chicago) The American Modern Opera Company has announced its US Tour of “El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered” for Dec. 11-22. John Adams and Peter Sellars’ chamber work celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women. Performing alongside the concept designer of the performance soprano Julia Bullock, is contralto {…}
Dubai Opera has unveiled its 2023-24 season. While the season features numerous concerts and musicals, here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. The season opens with productions of “Swan Lake” and Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” the latter in a production by Miklós Gábor Kerényi from the Hungarian State Opera. The opera will be performed on Sept. 12 and 13, {…}
Benedetta Torre is set to open the 2023-24 season performing two special concerts that close the “Viva Verdi” series, which was created in order to build awareness and save the composer’s famed house which is also a museum. Riccardo Muti will conduct the concerts on Sept. 8 at the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza and Sept. 9 at the Teatro Donizetti {…}
(Credit Gerard Collett) The Volksoper Wien has appointed Ben Glassberg as its new Music Director. The company said “Omer Meir Wellber announces his resignation as music director of the Volksoper Wien on December 31, 2023 for personal reasons. We are delighted to welcome British conductor Ben Glassberg as our new Music Director from 2024! We thank Omer Meir Wellber for {…}
Soprano Kristina Opolais is set to present a recital at the Hungarian State Opera on Sept. 17, 2023. The showcase will feature that soprano alongside Latvian pianist Agnese Egliņa as the two take opera arias by Puccini, Verdi, Catalina, Cilea, Dvorak, and Ponchielli. Egliņa will also present excerpts from “La Forza del Destino,” “La Gioconda,” and “Madama Butterfly,” as well {…}
On Sept. 15 the German-Arab Society is set to honor Maestro Daniel Barenboim for his life-long commitment to a peaceful and humanistic solution to the Middle East conflict. Barenboim will receive the 2023 Friedrich II von Hohenstaufen Prize and will showcase Salah Abdel Shafi, the Palestinian Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia giving a laudatory speech. The award ceremony will {…}
