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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 {…}