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Melody Moore & Carmela Remigio Showcase New CD/DVD Releases – July 22

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Three new releases will be seen this week featuring some rarely performed works. La Donna Serpente Piero Pretti, Carmela Remigio, Erika Grimaldi, Francesca Sassu, Anna Maria Chiuri, and Roberto de Candia star in a Alfredo Casella’s opera conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Naxos releases the production from the Teatro Regio di Torino. Eduardo e Cristina  Naxos releases the rarely performed Rossini {…}

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Julia Bullock, Christine Goerke & Christian Gerhaher Lead White Lights 2019 Festival

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The White Lights Festival has announced its 2019 festival featuring numerous experimental works and a number of operatic and vocal evenings. For this article, we will only announce vocal events. “En Masse,” a work created by Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa Ensemble, is set to feature selections by Swedish composer Klara Lewis interspersed with selections from Schubert’s “Winterreise” and “Schwanengesang.” Performance {…}

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How To Watch Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala in ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’ On PBS Great Performances From The Met

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The Met Opera’s highly successful production of “Adriana Lecouvreur” will be showcased on PBS as part of the Great Performances at the Met. The broadcast is set for May 12 at 12 p.m. Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili will headline the production as warring divas over the affection of Piotr Beczala’s Maurizio. Ambrogio Maestri rounds out the quartet with the {…}

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Sonya Yoncheva, Cecilia Bartoli & Philippe Jaroussky Highlight Palau De La Musica’s 2019-20 Season

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The Palau de La Musica has announced its 2019-20 season featuring guest performers, a number of choral pieces and all stars. Here is a break down of the operatic and vocal performances the season will offer. The season opens with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge with the Jove de l’Orfeó Català in music by Wylkynson, Byrd, Britten, Lobo, Casals, Harvey, Weir, Villiers Stanford, {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča & Philippe Jaroussky Headline Théâtre Champs-Élysée’s 2019-20 Season

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The Théâtre Champs-Élysée has announced its 2019-20 season featuring five opera productions, numerous concert performances, operas in concerts, a Beethoven celebration and a number of recitals. For this season announcement we have narrowed it down to only vocal or operatic performances. Here is a look at the massive season. Deborah Cohen directs a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with {…}

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Joseph Calleja, Ying Fang And Benjamin Appl Headline Riga Jurmala Music Festival 2019

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The line-up for the first-ever Riga Jurmala Music Festival has been announced. The festival will take place in the Latvian cities of Riga and Jurmala this summer in a series of four concert and recital-packed weekends. For the purposes of this article, we will focus primarily on the vocal/opera-related performances. The first weekend of the Festival will kick off at {…}

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Russell Thomas, Leah Crocetto and Kathryn Lewek Highlight Washington National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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Washington National Opera has announced its 2019-20 season! The lineup consists of six main-stage operas: two new productions, three productions new to Washington, and the D.C. premiere of a Zambello-commissioned work by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson.  Additionally, the American Opera Initiative will return for “Three 20-Minute Operas,” which will showcase the work of three new composer-librettist teams during {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, Sir Bryn Terfel & Pretty Yende Headline Carnegie Hall’s 2019-20 Season

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Carnegie Hall has announced its 2019-20 season! The 2019-20 season will honor the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with over 35 performances celebrating the composer’s work and impact and will be dedicated to violinist, educator, and activist Isaac Stern, 2020 marking the centenary of his birth. We will focus primarily on vocal performances in this season announcement. Orchestras The first {…}

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Christian Gerhaher, Christine Goerke & Susan Graham Highlight Lincoln Center Great Performers 2019-20 Season

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Lincoln Center Great Performers Has Announced its 2019-20 Season, which will include several vocal performances. Kicking off the Art of the Song series, baritone Christian Gerhaher, the “foremost lieder singer of our time,” is set to perform with pianist Gerold Huber at Alice Tully Hall. The program of this all-Mahler recital includes “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen,” songs from “Des Knaben {…}