Nicole Cabell, Anthony Roth Costanzo & Nathan Gunn Headline English National Opera’s 2018-19 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2018-19 season with five new Productions including a World Premiere, four revivals, and two collaborations. The season will include contemporary pieces and bold new takes on seminal works to audience-favorite classic stagings. The season kicks off with a new production of Strauss’ “Salome” by Adena Jacobs. Conductor Martyn Brabbins leads the production with Allison {…}

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Danielle De Niese, Sabine Devieilhe & Anna Caterina Antonacci To Be Featured At La Monnaie’s 2018-19 Season

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La Monnaie has announced its 2018-19 season, featuring nine operatic productions and concert performances, as well as numerous recitals. As always the season will feature some of today’s greatest stars and rising stars. Here is a look at what the season will offer in vocal events. Operas “Die Zauberflöte” opens the season in a new production by director Romeo Castellucci {…}

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Opera Holland Park Releases the Casts for their 2017 Season!

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Investec Opera Holland Park introduced its cast lists for their 2017 season. The season features many of its Opera Holland Park (OHP) performers, house premiers from known singers, and new talent incorporating numerous young British performers that have been part of OHP’s Young Artists Scheme. The company’s opening production, Puccini’s “La rondine,” will celebrate its centenary in 2017, showcasing Elizabeth {…}

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Filarmonica de Madrid Announces 2024-25 Season

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La Filarmonica de Madrid has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. The Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe perform music by Bach. Performance Date: Jan. 30, 2025 Teodor Currentzis conducts MusicAterna in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Performance Date: March 26, 2025 Fleur Barron and Andrew Staples headline Mahler’s “Das lied von der Erde.” Daniel Harding conducts a {…}

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Opera Columbus & Columbus Symphony Orchestra Present ‘Eugene Onegin’

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(Photo credit: Curtis Brown Photography) For the first time in Columbus, Ohio, Opera Columbus and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra put on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” Soprano Lydia Grindatto leads the cast as Tatyana, with baritone Morgan Smith in the title role. Tenor Dane Suarez sings Vladimir Lensky and mezzo-soprano Hilary Ginther takes on the role of Olga Larina. They are joined {…}

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Prague Symphony Orchestra Announces New Music Director

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The Prague Symphony Orchestra has announced that Tomáš Netopil will be the new Music Director starting during the 2025-26 season. Netopil will succeed his present Chief Conductor Tomáš Brauner. In a statement, the conductor said, “Prague has always been an enormously rich source of culture and music for me. The Prague Symphony Orchestra, which continues to make an outstanding contribution {…}

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Opera NUOVA to Present ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ & ‘Tuck Everlasting’

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Edmonton-based Opera Nuova has announced its upcoming performances. On July 9, the company opened a new production of “The Coronation of Poppea” in a production by Kim Mattice Wanat. The work, which is conducted by Christopher Baga, stars Alexandra Morgan and Camille Labonte in the title role with Spencer VanDellen and Rain Seran-Senavinin sharing the role of Nerone. As Ottone, {…}

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Q & A: Luca Pisaroni on Why His ‘Personal Idea of Hell is Repeating the Same Thing’

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(Credit: Chris Singer) In Gramophone’s Opera recording of the year, Handel’s “Agrippina” with Erato Records, there are many shinning vocal performances, including those by Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Franco Fagioli, and Luca Pisaroni, to name but a few. Luca Pisaroni wows the listener in the role of the bumbling Emperor Claudio. Pisaroni is perhaps best-known these days for his work {…}

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Nicole Cabell, Anthony Roth Costanzo & Nathan Gunn Headline English National Opera’s 2018-19 Season

Danielle De Niese, Sabine Devieilhe & Anna Caterina Antonacci To Be Featured At La Monnaie’s 2018-19 Season

Opera Holland Park Releases the Casts for their 2017 Season!

Filarmonica de Madrid Announces 2024-25 Season

Opera Columbus & Columbus Symphony Orchestra Present ‘Eugene Onegin’

Prague Symphony Orchestra Announces New Music Director

Opera NUOVA to Present ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ & ‘Tuck Everlasting’

Q & A: Luca Pisaroni on Why His ‘Personal Idea of Hell is Repeating the Same Thing’