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Opera National De Paris 2018-19 Season: Here Is A Look At All The Live In HD Performances

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The Opéra National de Paris has announced its cinema season for the 2018-19 season. Here is a look at the works that you can expect to see on the silver screen. Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Oct. 4, 2018): The season begins with Meyerbeer’s grand opera starring Bryan Hymel, Diana Damrau, Ermonela Jaho, and Nicolas Testé. Michele Mariotti conducts Andreas Kriegenburg’s new production. Verdi’s {…}

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Pretty Yende, Diana Damrau & Russell Thomas Headline Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2018-19 Season

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( Photo credit: Manfred Brückels) The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2018-19 season featuring seven new productions and numerous revivals. The season will also include some of today’s biggest stars as well numerous ensemble members. Here is a look! New Productions  Johan Reuter takes on the title role in Berg’s “Wozzeck” in a new production by Ole Anders Tanberg’s {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko & Sonya Yoncheva To Be Featured In Paris Opera 2018-19 Season

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The 2018-19 Paris Opera will celebrate a double anniversary including the signing, in 1669, of the letters patent authorizing Perrin to establish an Academy of Opera – rapidly named the Royal Academy of Music and that of the inauguration of the Opéra Bastille in 1989. The season will feature a number of new productions, classic revivals, and world premieres. It {…}

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Opera Based on Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ To Get US Premiere in 2018

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Pink Floyd is coming to the opera. Well not necessarily, but “Another Brick in the Wall: The Opera” will be heading to the Cincinnati Opera in July 2018. The opera will be part of the company’s 98th season, its first after a $135 million restoration of the Cincinnati Music Hall. The opera, which made its world premiere in Montreal a {…}

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The Kennedy Center Announces 2024–25 Performances for Young Audiences Season

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced its 2024–25 Performances for Young Audiences Season. For the purpose of this article, only opera works are included. The Washington National Opera presents Kamala Sankaram and Kelley Rourke’s “Jungle Book.” The beloved story gets a contemporary twist with music from South Asian and Western music traditions and mesmerizing Bollywood {…}

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Bravo! Vail Music Festival Artistic Director to Step Down

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Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced that Anne-Marie McDermott will step down from her tenure as the Festival’s Artistic Director at the end of the 2026 season. McDermott is a celebrated concert pianist and artistic director and has held the role since 2011. The Festival has grown in both scope and impact as an internationally recognized destination for classical music {…}

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CD Review: Joseph Calleja’s ‘Ave Maria’

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It has been a while since Decca released a solo recital with Joseph Calleja. “The Magic of Manotvani,” some sort of a crossover, dates from 2020 while his last properly operatic release, “Verdi,” goes all the way back to 2018. Yet the British label has all but forgotten about its spearhead tenor who, with “Ave Maria,” makes a beautifully toned but no less {…}

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Emily d’Angelo, Isabel Leonard & Justin Austin Lead Washington National Opera’s 2023-24 Season

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The Washington National Opera has announced its 2023-24 season featuring a new world premiere. The season opens with the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s new work, “Grounded,” in a co-production that was initiated and commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Adapted from the play by George Brant and featuring his libretto, “Grounded” tells the story of Jess, an elite female F-16 {…}

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Association for Opera in Canada Earns Major Funding for Training Programs

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The Ministry of Canadian Heritage of the Government of Canada has awarded the Association for Opera in Canada $434,000 for training programs. Canada Performing Arts Workers Resilience Fund provided the funding, which will allow AOC’s new Opera Artist Resilience Program to run two different streams of training. The first stream offers 225 mini-mentorships that provide short opportunities for artists to gain {…}