Tanglewood 2019 Season To Feature Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, & A Wagner Opera In 2 Days

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The Tanglewood Festival has announced its 2019 season. As with other programs of this sort, we will limit ourselves to the vocal and operatic selections on display. For the full program, click here. Verdi’s Requiem will get a performance with Kristine Opolais, Oksana Volkova, Jonathan Tetelman, and Ryan Speedo Green. Andris Nelsons will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Performance Date: {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (11/9-11)

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November means a lot of opera. And a lot of opera means almost endless choices. So in picking this week’s major selections, we recommended a mix of new and old works across the States and Canada. Otello – Austin Opera Verdi’s great masterpiece gets a concert production at the Austin Opera with Marina Costa-Jackson headlining the cast as Desdemona. She {…}

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Washington National Opera To Celebrate WWI Centennial With ‘Silent Night’

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The Washington National Opera will celebrate the centennial of the WWI Armistice with Kevin Puts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “Silent Night.” The acclaimed work based on the wartime ceasefire depicted in the Oscar-nominated ” Joyeux Noël” will feature current members and alumni from the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and WNO Chorus. The cast will include Raquel González, Michael Adams, Aleksey Bogdanov, {…}

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New York Opera Fest 2018 Preview: Don’t Miss the World Premiere of David Hertzberg’s ‘The Rose Elf’

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With the New York Opera Fest 2018 officially underway, OperaWire will be showcasing small previews for each major participant at the festival, as we did during last year’s event. However, we are doing things a bit differently this year and giving the floor directly to each company to speak to you, the reader, directly. Enjoy! David Hertzberg is one of {…}

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10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2018 [U.S Edition]

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The 2017-18 season comes to an end. Now what do you do? Or more like where do you go? Opera lovers know that there are a plethora of festivals to check out, but many are distant from their own traditional opera companies and it can turn into a challenge trying to figure out where to fly out to in the {…}

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San Francisco Symphony’s 2018-19 Season To Feature Strauss & Wagner

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The San Francisco Symphony has announced its 2018-19 season with some of the greatest instrumentalists playing anticipated concerts. There will also be some operatic themed concerts and one vocal event. Here is a look at those few selections that will enthrall opera lovers. Nicholas Phan sings in Stravinsky’s “Perséphone” with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the concert. The program will also {…}

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Opera Meets Film: 7 Oscar-Nominated Films That Inspired Operas Part 2

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment we will go through {…}

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Nicole Cabell, Alek Shrader & Miles Mykkanen Lead Minnesota Opera 2018-19 Season

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The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2018-19 season featuring five productions including one world premiere and two modern masterpieces. The season opens with Puccini’s rarely performed “La Rondine,” which tells the tale of Magda a lively courtesan in Paris. Celine Byrne makes her debut in the title role with Leonardo Capalbo as Ruggero. Octavio Cardenas directs the new production which is {…}

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Michael Christie To Conclude Tenure At The Minnesota Opera

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Music Director Michael Christie concludes his tenure at the Minnesota Opera with Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” The performances, which are scheduled from March 17 through March 31, 2018, will be his final production with the company as Music Director. Throughout his tenure, Christie led 26 productions over eight seasons, six as Music Director at the Minnesota Opera including “La Traviata,” “Nabucco,” “Macbeth,” “La Boheme,” “La {…}

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Tanglewood 2019 Season To Feature Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, & A Wagner Opera In 2 Days

Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (11/9-11)

Washington National Opera To Celebrate WWI Centennial With ‘Silent Night’

New York Opera Fest 2018 Preview: Don’t Miss the World Premiere of David Hertzberg’s ‘The Rose Elf’

10 Must See Operas For The Summer Season 2018 [U.S Edition]

San Francisco Symphony’s 2018-19 Season To Feature Strauss & Wagner

Opera Meets Film: 7 Oscar-Nominated Films That Inspired Operas Part 2

Nicole Cabell, Alek Shrader & Miles Mykkanen Lead Minnesota Opera 2018-19 Season

Michael Christie To Conclude Tenure At The Minnesota Opera