Anna Netrebko, Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Lise Davidsen, René Pape & Rachel Willis-Sørensen Lead Staatsoper Unter Den Linden’s 2024-25 Season

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The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Luca Salsi and Anna Netrebko team up for Verdi’s “Nabucco.” Ivan Magrì, Marina Prudenskaya, and René Pape join them. Anastasia Bartoli also performs. Bertrand de Billy conducts the new production by Emma Dante. Performance Dates: Oct. 2-26, 2024 Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” receives a new production featuring multiple casts. {…}

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Ermonela Jaho, Freddie de Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2024-25 Season

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Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres First up is Carl Orff’s “Trionfi.” Calixto Bieito directs a cast starring Nicole Chevalier, Florian Panzieri, Sandra Hamaoui, and Oleksiy Palchykov, among others. Kent Nagano conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21 – Oct. 12, 2024 “Der Freischütz” stars Andrzej Dobber, Hubert Kowalczyk, Julia Kleiter, Alina Wunderlin, and Johan Reuter. Yoel Gamzou conducts and Andreas {…}

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National Sawdust Announces 2024 Winter/Spring Lineup

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National Sawdust has released the details of its 2024 Winter/Spring programming. First up is “How does it feel to look at nothing” by composers and performers yuniya edi kwon and Holland Andrews. Performance Date: January 12, 2024 Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and pianist Erika Switzer perform the world premiere of songSLAM commission prize-winner “Anger in Open Mouths: Three Sweet Songs” by {…}

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Starring ‘The Inalienable Property of Genius’: Maria Callas’ Celestial Onstage Quests

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(Callas greeting fans. Credit: © Archiv Lebeck.) Editor’s Note: In anticipation of the release of “The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography” on Dec. 2, 2023, OperaWire is sharing a preview. “Greatness” is a noun too frequently assigned to humans. Victims of this label view the happening of “genius” as a capricious, “limited time only” gift. Here we follow Callas on {…}

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Kezia Bienek & Julian Henao Gonzalez to Give a Recital at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Fringe Events

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Opera Rara and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) have announced that mezzo-soprano Kezia Bienek and tenor Julian Henao Gonzalez will be featured in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World fringe events. The concerts and exhibition are part of RWCMD’s program of fringe events which coincide with the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. The {…}

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Samuel Dale Johnson Joins Promethean Artists

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Samuel Dale Johnson has joined the Promethean Artists roster. The artist agency announced that Johnson will be represented for general management by Callan Coughlan. Johnson is an alumnus of the renowned Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House and is currently a featured ensemble member at Deutsche Oper Berlin. He has performed such roles as the title {…}

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At Home With – Stage Director Julia Burbach in London

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“At Home With… ” is a new series collaboration between OperaWire and photographer Frances Marshall of Marshall Light Studio, combining original photography with insightful interviews. In this second edition, OperaWire spoke with Stage Director, Julia Burbach. “Truth be told, I only realized that things were accelerating when I was in Iceland, rehearsing ‘Valkyrie.’ We were going to do a week {…}

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Anja Harteros, Catherine Foster & Andreas Schager lead Staatstheater Wiesbaden Mai Festspiele 2020

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Staatstheater Wiesbaden has just announced its May Festival program, featuring seven operas and number of vocal works. Operas Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde” will spotlight Catherine Foster, Lance Ryan, Andreas Schager, René Pape, Tobias Kehrer, Thomas de Vries, Margarete Joswig, Andreas Karasiak, Julian Habermann, and Erik Biegel. Ryan and Schager will alternate in the title role of Tristan, while Pape and Kehrer will {…}

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Jamie Barton Headlines American Composers Orchestra’s Opening Concert

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American Composers Orchestra opens its 2019-20 concert season with New England Echoes on Nov. 13, 2019 at at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. The concert is set to feature the world premiere of 2017 ACO Underwood Commission winner Hilary Purrington’s concerto for guitar and orchestra, Harp of Nerves, with guitar soloist JIJI. Jamie Barton will sing in the world premiere of new orchestrations of Charles {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, Lise Davidsen, René Pape & Rachel Willis-Sørensen Lead Staatsoper Unter Den Linden’s 2024-25 Season

Ermonela Jaho, Freddie de Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2024-25 Season

National Sawdust Announces 2024 Winter/Spring Lineup

Starring ‘The Inalienable Property of Genius’: Maria Callas’ Celestial Onstage Quests

Kezia Bienek & Julian Henao Gonzalez to Give a Recital at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Fringe Events

Samuel Dale Johnson Joins Promethean Artists

At Home With – Stage Director Julia Burbach in London

Anja Harteros, Catherine Foster & Andreas Schager lead Staatstheater Wiesbaden Mai Festspiele 2020

Jamie Barton Headlines American Composers Orchestra’s Opening Concert