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Latonia Moore, Erin Morley, Daniela Barcellona, & Lawrence Brownlee Lead Opera Carolina’s 2025-26 Season

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Opera Carolina has announced its 2025-26 Season. The season opens with Pergolisi’s Stabat Mater performed in remembrance of the events of 9/11. Corey Lovelace and Leyla Martinucci star alongside the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and conductor  Emily Jarrell Urbanek. Performance Date: Sept. 11, 2025 “A Night To Remember” will feature music by Giacomo Puccini. This gala concert will be held at {…}
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$20 Million Gift Helps Music Academy of the West Acquire Property to Launch Music Education Center

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Music Academy of the West has acquired a downtown Santa Barbara Property which it intends to use to launch a Music Education Center. The acquisition was made possible thanks to a historic $20 million gift from Cheryl Goldberg in honor of her late husband, Michael Goldberg. “We are profoundly grateful to Cheryl Goldberg for bringing this vision to life,” said {…}
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Kendrick Williams Among Performers at North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

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The North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame has announced the performances for its 2024 induction ceremony. Honoring North Carolina native Mary Cardwell Dawson, will be Kendrick Williams who has performed with such organizations as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Carolina, North Carolina Opera, and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. He is also the author of the children’s book “Noah’s Big Opera Dream. {…}
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Angel Blue, Nicky Spence, Joyce DiDonato, Leah Hawkins, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Charles Castronovo Lead BBC Proms’ 2026 Season

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2026 season. Here are the vocal performances. The festival opens on with pianist Yunchan Lim and tenor Thomas Atkins joining Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for music by Ravel, Copland, Gershwin and Finzi. There will also be a world premiere by Josephine Stephenson. Performance Date: July 17, 2026 Gianandrea Noseda leads Beethoven’s Symphony {…}
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Benjamin Bernheim, Sabine Devieilhe, Olga Peretyatko, Magdalena Kožená, Klaus Florian Vogt, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Michael Volle & Miina-Liisa Värelä Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2026-27 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Yannick Nezet-Seguin will conduct Elza van den Heever and the Met Orchestra in a program of Strauss music. Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2026 Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Joyce DiDonato team up with the Met Orchestra for Mahler and Kaija Saariaho. Performance Date: Sept. 2, {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

ABAO Bilbao Opera 2025-26 Review: Werther

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ABAO-Bilbao opened 2026 with a production a Massenet’s masterpiece, “Werther,” with the Spanish tenor Celso Albelo stepping in after the sudden cancelation of the tenor cast for this role. The stage director Rosetta Cucchi presented a metaphorical production with showed hyperrealistic sets: like the living room at the first act or the library on the second act with symbolic elements {…}
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Jodie Devos, Luciano Pavarotti, Berit Norbakken Rolando Villazon, Freddie de Tommaso Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences get to hear a lost concert from a legendary tenor, an homage to a great singer who we lost too soon, a new album from one of the great tenors of our time, and a new song by a rising {…}
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Malmö Opera to Present ‘The Shining’ & ‘Rusalka’ in 2026

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Malmö Opera has announced two new operas for 2026. First up, the organization will present the Scandinavian premiere of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s “The Shining.” The opera, which premiered in 2016, will take the stage on August 22, 2206 at Storan in a production by Keith Warner. Then the company will showcase a production of “Rusalka” directed by Orpha {…}

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