Vienna State Opera Live Stream 2019: Andrea Carroll & Joseph Calleja Star in ‘Rigoletto’

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Verdi’s “Rigoletto” will get the live stream treatment at the Vienna State Opera on May 9, 2019. But there will a nice twist for audiences. Joseph Calleja will take on the role of the villainous Duke of Mantua with Andrea Carroll as Gilda. Christopher Maltman will interpret the title role with Jongmin and Nadia Krasteva as Sparafucile and Maddalena, respectively. {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: Don Giovanni (Cast B)

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A new cast took over the Met Opera’s run of “Don Giovanni” on Nov. 6, 2025 to stunning results. I’ve said this before, but casting is such a complex task in the opera world. Most of these productions have to be cast years before they take place and often rely on projections of where certain artists will be vocally and {…}

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Canadian Opera Company Reveals Seven Finalists for ‘Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition’

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The Canadian Opera Company has unveiled the seven finalists for its highly anticipated Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition, taking place Oct. 23, 2025, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The seven finalists include tenor Jacob Abrahamse, tenor Jackson Allen, soprano Sarah Anderson-Caulfield, bass Onur Hilaloglu, soprano Nikan Ingabire Kanate, mezzo-soprano Camila Montefusco, and baritone Søren Pedersen. They {…}

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Ryan Speedo Green, Kyle Ketelsen, Federica Lombardi & Ben Bliss Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Don Giovanni’

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(Credit: Karen Almond) The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive Ivo van Hove’s production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” The opera will be performed 14 times between Sept. 24 and Nov. 22, 2025 and will showcase Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the first cast. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green takes on the title role with a cast that includes Federica Lombardi, Ben Bliss, Janai {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2024-25 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo: Cory Weaver) Some operas are able to provide an opulent reminder of just why opera exists and how it can conquer hearts and minds. Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” is at the top of that list. Even 130 years after its debut, this comedic tragedy, set in the Latin Quarter of Paris, remains the most popular and most frequently produced {…}

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Marie Lys, Francesca Aspromonte, Key’mon Murrah, & Jeremy Ovenden Star in Les Talens Lyriques’ 2025-26 Season

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Les Talens Lyriques releases its 2025-26 season. Lully’s “Proserpine” opens the 2025 season. Marie Lys, Véronique Gens, Olivier Gourdy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Ambroisine Bré, Laurent Kilsby, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Nick Pritchard, Olivier Cesarini, and David Witczak make up the cast. They are joined by Chœur de Chambre de Namur led by Thibaut Lenaerts, and Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christophe {…}

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Nicole Car & Karen Chia-ling Ho Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘La Bohème’

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San Francisco Opera’s 2025 Summer Season is set to open with Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company will revive the production by John Caird, and Ramón Tebar will conduct the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. The company will showcase two different casts. The first will showcase Pene Pati as Rodolfo, Karen Chia-ling Ho as Mimì, Andrea Carroll as Musetta, and Lucas Meachem {…}

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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: L’opera seria

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(Photo credit: Brescia and Amisano) “I should reproach myself even more if I were to allow myself to be credited with the initiative for the new genre of Italian opera … it is to my librettist Calzabigi that the main credit goes …” Gluck, letter of 1775 Let us speak directly of the opera at hand, recently brought to the {…}

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Cecilia Bartoli, Eleonora Buratto, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, Chen Reiss, Marina Rebeka & Stéphane Degout Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2025-26 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Andris Nelsons conducts the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig in Brahms’ Deutsche Requiem with Christian Gerhaher and Julia Kleiter. The program includes Mendelssohn’s Symphony No.5. Performance Date: Sept. 3, 2025 Riccardo Chailly condcuts the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus in excerpts from Verdi’s “La {…}

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Vienna State Opera Live Stream 2019: Andrea Carroll & Joseph Calleja Star in ‘Rigoletto’

Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: Don Giovanni (Cast B)

Canadian Opera Company Reveals Seven Finalists for ‘Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition’

Ryan Speedo Green, Kyle Ketelsen, Federica Lombardi & Ben Bliss Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Don Giovanni’

San Francisco Opera 2024-25 Review: La Bohème

Marie Lys, Francesca Aspromonte, Key’mon Murrah, & Jeremy Ovenden Star in Les Talens Lyriques’ 2025-26 Season

Nicole Car & Karen Chia-ling Ho Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘La Bohème’

Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: L’opera seria

Cecilia Bartoli, Eleonora Buratto, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, Chen Reiss, Marina Rebeka & Stéphane Degout Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2025-26 Season