Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Won Whi Choi, Alexandra Razskazoff, Marcus Deloach Headline Teatro Grattacielo’s 2021 Season

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Teatro Grattacielo has announced its 2021 season featuring three productions. The company will present Mascagni’s “L’Amico Fritz” at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre. The work was last performed in New York City in 1987and will star Won Whi Choi, Alexandra Razskazoff, and Marcus Deloach. Israel Gursky heads the Queens Symphony Orchestra with Malena Dayen and Stefanos Koroneos directing. Performance Date: {…}

Stage Reviews

Teatro Grattacielo 2021 Review: Annual Fund Gala

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The young artists of Teatro Grattacielo, along with special guest star the inimitable Karen Slack, showcased rare gems of verismo arias and art songs at the company’s 2021 Annual Fund Gala presented in collaboration with Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy. Teatro Grattacielo held the gala at the opulent Columbus Citizens Foundation in New York City on Friday evening, June 18. The {…}

News

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Ekaterina Semenchuk & Christian Gerhaher Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: Julian Hargreaves / Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical / Jürgen Frank / Alexey Kostromin / Sony / Gregor Hohenberg) The famed Austrian venue Musikverein Wien has announced its 2021-22 season, featuring concerts and recitals with some of the greatest performers in the world. Here is the full slate. Baritone Christian Gerhaher performs works by Schönberg and Berlioz alongside seven {…}

News

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Announces Music in the Summer Air Festival Programming

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Shanghai Symphony Orchestra has announced the programming for their annual Music in the Summer Air (MISA) Festival. Running From July 10-24, 2021, the festival will see 23 concerts held in Shanghai Symphony Hall’s Concert Hall, Chamber Hall, Urban Music Lawn, and Yellow Lounge China’s TRI venue. For this article, we will focus exclusively on vocal performances. A full listing of {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

Teatro Grattacielo to Present 2021 Annual Fund Gala

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Teatro Grattacielo, in collaboration with Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy, is set to live broadcast its 2021 Annual Fund Gala. The gala will take place on June 18 at 6:00 p.m. EST at the Columbus Citizens Foundation in New York City and will celebrate Teatro Grattacielo’s past and future. The concert will include music by Mascagni, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Samaras, Pizzetti, Alfano, Cilea, {…}

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Teatro Grattacielo Appoints Felipe Tristan as Associate Conductor

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Teatro Grattacielo has announced that Felipe Tristan has been named as the new Associate Conductor at Teatro Grattacielo and Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy. The Mexican-born conductor has performed worldwide in symphonic works, opera, and musical theatre. Tristan currently serves as the Associate Conductor of the Brooklyn Symphony, and Conductor at the Manhattan School of Music. The winner of multiple conducting {…}

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Against the Grain Theatre Announces Encore Presentation of ‘Messiah/Complex’

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Against the Grain Theatre has announced that its acclaimed, Canadian re-imaging of Handel’s “Messiah,” titled “Messiah/Complex,” will return for an encore presentation running from April 1-13, 2021. The work, which comes in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, features 12 soloists and four choirs, representing every province and territory in Canada. Artists performed in Dene, Inukitut, Southern Tutchone, Arabic, and {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Leo Nucci on COVID-19, His Return to the Stage & the Teatro alla Scala

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Leo Nucci is one of the most famous baritones in the world. During his career, he has performed dozens of roles, but the one for which he is certainly most famous is that of Rigoletto. He has performed his signature role more than 500 times all over the world including Teatro alla Scala, Arena di Verona, Opernhaus Zurich, Teatro Regio {…}

Special Features

The Pandemic Prevention Plan That Enabled the Salzburg Festival’s 100th Edition to Take Place

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Every year, the Salzburg Festival fascinates with its superhuman efforts to nurture the prosperous cultural life of the city. During the summer they organize and present to the public the full seasonal repertoire of the opera house, drama theater, and concert hall. This year, with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of almost the entire world’s cultural {…}

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