Gerard Schneider, Anna Gabler & Francisco Brito Highlight Tiroler Festspiele’s Winter Season

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The Tiroler Festspiele Erl has announced a winter festival between Dec. 26 and Jan. 6. For this article, we will only focus on the Austrian Festival’s operatic and vocal performances. The festival will open with Mascagni’s “L’Amico Fritz” with starring Gerard Schneider, Mojca Bitenc, Nina Tarandek, Domen Križaj, Reilly Nelson, Carlos Andrés Cárdenas, and Giovanni Battista Parodi. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts {…}

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Macerata Opera Festival Announces 2021 Season

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The Macerata Opera Festival at the Sferisterio has announced the operas for the 2021 season. The Italian festival will celebrate its centennial with Verdi’s “Aida” and “La Traviata” and “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” The season will open with Verdi’s “Aida,” in a new production by Valentina Carrasco. Francesco Lanzillotta conducts the production. Performance Dates: July 23, August 1, 7 & {…}

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Gerard Schneider, Brenda Rae & Nicholas Brownlee Highlight Oper Frankfurt’s 2020-21 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2020-21 season. The German house will present 11 new productions and a number of revivals and recitals. New Productions Monika Buczkowska, Judita Nagyová, Peter Marsh, Simon Neil, and Alfred Reiter star in Ligeti’s “La Grand Macabre.” Sebastian Weigle conducts a production by Vasily Barkhatov. Performance Dates: Sept. 13-Oct. 17, 2020 Katharina Thoma will direct Offenbach’s {…}

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Davinia Rodriguez, Sabine Devieilhe, Simon Keenlyside Headline La Monnaie’s 2020-21 Season

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La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, Belgium has unveiled its 2020-21 season which features a number of unique operas, concerts, and recitals. Opera The opera season kicks off with the world premiere of Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s “The Time of our Singing.” The opera stars Claron McFadden, Mark. S. Doss, Peter Coleman-Wright, Levy Sekgapane, Peter Brathwaite, Abigail {…}

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Javier Camarena, Brandon Jovanovich & Piotr Beczala Highlight Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2020-21 Season

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The Deutshce Oper Berlin has announced its 2020-21 season featuring six new productions and a new Ring Cycle. Premieres The season kicks off with “The 7 Deaths of Maria Callas,” which will be directed by Marina Abramovic. Marina Abramovic, Nadezhda Karyazina, Whitney Morrison, Leah Hawkins, Adela Zaharia, Selene Zanetti, Gabriella Reyes, and Mané Galoyan will lead the cast. Performance Dates: {…}

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Palau de Les Arts 2019-20 review: Il Viaggio a Reims

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(Credit: Miguel Lorenzo/Mikel Ponce) Rossini’s “Il viaggio a Reims” is a difficult show to stage. To begin with, it was written as a “cantata” and not an opera, and it has 14 solo voices. Moreover, it is a compilation of Rossini’s past compositions, including his opera buffa and serious works, but with a stronger influence of the French “Grand Opera” {…}

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Rebeka Lokar, Roberta Mantegna & Mattia Olivieri Highlight Macerata Opera Festival 2020 Slate

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The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2020 program. This season the festival will showcase three popular operas with renown casts starting on July 17 through August 9, 2020. The festival opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Valentina Carrasco. The production will star Rebeka Lokar in the title role, Piero Pretti as Cavaradossi, and Roberto {…}

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Semperoper Dresden Announces Cast Change For ‘Il Viaggio A Reims’

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(Credit: Carissa la Polla) The Semperoper Dresden has announced a cast change for its upcoming production of Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims” The company announced that Mert Süngü will sing Chevalier Belfiore in the performance “Il Viaggio a Reims” on Oct. 20, 2019 replacing Daniel Umbelino. Süngü is a Turkish tenor who specializes in Rossini and Mozart and has performed at {…}

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Carmela Remigio & Maria José Siri Headline Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s 2019-20 Season

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The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino has announced its 2019-20 season featuring rarely staged works and some of the most popular in the repertory. Spontini’s “Fernando Cortez” opens the season with Fabio Luisi conducting the new production by Cecilia Ligorio. The production stars Dario Schmunck in the title role as well as Alexia Voulgaridou. Performance Dates: Oct. 12-23, 2019 Marina Comparato and Karina Demurova sin {…}

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Gerard Schneider, Anna Gabler & Francisco Brito Highlight Tiroler Festspiele’s Winter Season

Macerata Opera Festival Announces 2021 Season

Gerard Schneider, Brenda Rae & Nicholas Brownlee Highlight Oper Frankfurt’s 2020-21 Season

Davinia Rodriguez, Sabine Devieilhe, Simon Keenlyside Headline La Monnaie’s 2020-21 Season

Javier Camarena, Brandon Jovanovich & Piotr Beczala Highlight Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2020-21 Season

Palau de Les Arts 2019-20 review: Il Viaggio a Reims

Rebeka Lokar, Roberta Mantegna & Mattia Olivieri Highlight Macerata Opera Festival 2020 Slate

Semperoper Dresden Announces Cast Change For ‘Il Viaggio A Reims’

Carmela Remigio & Maria José Siri Headline Maggio Musicale Fiorentino’s 2019-20 Season