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LA Opera Announces 2019-20 Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program

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Plácido Domingo, General Director of LA Opera, has chosen six singers to join LA Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program for the 2019-20 season. The six artists chosen for the program are tenor Anthony Ciaramitaro, soprano Sylvia D’Eramo, mezzo-soprano Gabriela Flores, soprano Alaysha Fox, tenor Robert Stahley, and soprano Tiffany Townsend. “For many years, I have been passionate about discovering and {…}

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10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2019[International Edition]

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As the 2018-19 season comes to an end, we start to look at the summer festival season where the big stars and anticipated productions are set to make waves. With a ton of selections to choose from, we eventually whittled it down to the 10 Must-See productions that cannot be missed this summer. Take a look. 10. Il Trovatore – Arena {…}

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Diana Damrau, Renée Fleming & Nina Stemme Headline Musikverein Wien’s 2019-20 Season

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Musikverein Wien has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Martin Haselböck will lead the Orchester Wiener Akademie in a performance of various works by Franz Schubert as well as Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 4 in D Minor. Baritone Thomas Hampson will be featured. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2019 Bass Günther Groissböck and {…}

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Hungarian State Opera 2018-19 Review: La Gioconda

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For the average older music lover, “Dance of the Hours” invariably conjures up images of Walt Disney’s plump pirouetting hippos in “Fantasia.” Or possibly Allan Sherman’s  summer-camp horror story “Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda.” Any connection to Amilcare’s Ponchielli’s very grand opera “La Gioconda” would more likely be left to the erudition of the panel on the Metropolitan Opera quiz. “Gioconda” {…}

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Jamie Barton, Joyce DiDonato & Sarah Connolly Headline BBC Proms 2019

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2019 festival featuring some of the great singers, performers and orchestras in the world. For this season announcement we will concentrate on the vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber leads the BBC Proms Youth Choir and BBC Philharmonic in Haydn’s “The Creation.” He is joined by soloists Sarah-Jane Brandon, Benjamin Hulett, and Christoph Pohl. Performance Date: July 29, {…}

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Diana Damrau & Riccardo Muti Highlight Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks’s 2019-20 Season

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The Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks has announced its 2019-20 season. For this announcement we have only concentrated on the vocal performances in Munich and the Bavarian area. Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Muller and mezzo soprano Okka Von der Damerau. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-28, 2019 Mariss Jansons and Diana Damrau perform a program of {…}

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Piotr Beczala, Juan Diego Flórez & Thomas Headline Opernhaus Zürich’s 2019-20 Season

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The Zurich Opera has announced its 2019-20 season which will feature a whopping 11 opera premieres and 17 opera revivals. Premieres  “The Makropulos Case” will be the first offering of the season with Evelyn Herlitzius starring as Emilia Marty. Other cast members will include Sam Furness, Kevin Conners, Deniz Uzun, Scott Hendricks, and Spencer Lang, among others. Dmitri Tcherniakov will direct while {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (4/5-7)

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It’s an interesting weekend filled with two rare works, concert performances and a lot of “Manon” with multiple singers performing the work for the first time. Here is a look at what are excited for. Robert le Diable – La Monnaie du Mont, Belgium Lisette Oropesa headlines the final concert performance of Meyerbeer’s rarely performed work which also stars Dmitry {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Sophie Koch & Jean-François Borras Headline Théâtre du Capitole’s 2019-20 Season

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The Théâtre du Capitole has announced its 2019-20 season featuring nine operatic productions and a number of recitals. Here is a look at what to expect.  Marina Rebeka and Klára Kolonits share the title role in Bellini’s “Norma” in a new production by Anne Delbée. The cast is rounded out by Karine Deshayes and Ilseyar Khayrullova who portraya Adalgisa, Martin Mühle and Airam Hernández {…}