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The English Concert Announces 2025 Spring Season

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(Photo credit: Mark Allan) The English Concert announces the details of its spring 2025 spring season. Soprano Lucy Crowe performs a program of works by Handel and Corelli, under the baton of The English Concert’s founder, Trevor Pinnock. Performance Date: January 30, 2025 (Wigmore Hall) Up next sopranos Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot, tenor Samuel Boden, and {…}

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The Seattle Symphony & Sound Transit Rename ‘University Street Station’ to ‘Symphony Station’

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The Seattle Symphony and Sound Transit announced the renaming of “University Street Station” to “Symphony Station.” The station is being renamed to provide better way-finding for customers and to avoid confusion with “University of Washington Station” and “U-District Station.” During the renaming ceremony, Krishna Thiagarajan, Seattle Symphony’s President & CEO, along with other city official will provide remarks. There be {…}

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George and Nora London Foundation for Singers Announces Its 53rd Annual Competition & Recital by Megan Moore

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The 2024-25 season of the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers will present the 53rd edition of the foundation’s annual competition. The final round of the competition, which is open to the public, takes place on Feb. 21, 2025, at the Morgan Library and Museum. Approximately a dozen singers compete for five George London Awards of $12,000 each. Those {…}

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Florida Grand Opera 2024 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo credit: Daniel Azoulay) Florida Grand Opera’s final production of Puccini’s “La Bohème” on May 4 was merely spectacular. The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, FL was alive with the spirit of opera. The nearly 3,000-seat theatre was packed with culture, diversity, and love for the arts. Illuminating Authenticity The curtain rose revealing the familiar scene, {…}

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Esa-Pekka Salonen to Step Down as Music Director of San Francisco Symphony

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Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen has announced he is stepping down from the San Francisco Symphony after the upcoming season. The conductor will step down after four years following an unexplained conflict between the symphony’s board and the conductor. In a statement, Salonen said, “I have decided not to continue as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony because I do {…}

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Central City Opera Appoints New Artistic Director

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Central City Opera has announced the appointment of stage director Alison Moritz as its new Artistic Director. Moritz was selected from a vast pool of talented applicants through a rigorous and highly competitive national search process led by Jonathan West on behalf of Management Consultants for the Arts (MCA) and CCO’s volunteer Search Committee, chaired by CCO Board of Directors {…}

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Charles Castronovo Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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 (Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since 2015. The opera will be presented in David Alden with Italian maestro Carlo Rizzi leading the orchestra. The cast will include Charles Castronovo, Angela Meade, Quinn Kelsey, Liv Redpath, and Olesya Petrova. Alden’s production was first performed at the {…}

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Atlanta Opera 2023-24 Review: The Shining

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(Photo credit: Raftermen/courtesy of The Atlanta Opera) Atlanta Opera gave a skillful East Coast premiere of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s “The Shining.” As most are familiar with the plot of Stephen King’s 1977 novel, “The Shining,” from the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film, I will not recount the storyline. However, it is important to mention the operatic version is based {…}

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Santa Fe Opera 2018 Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos

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The last time Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” was seen at Santa Fe Opera in 1999, the world was on the brink of a new millennium. Nineteen years later, this masterpiece finally saw a brilliant return to the Crosby Theater, in a new production by director Tim Albery and set and costume designer Tobias Hoheisel. Though “Ariadne auf Naxos” is now considered one {…}