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Adam Smith, Danielle de Niese, John Relyea &  Sean Panikkar Lead English National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring eight productions and seven operas. Leo Hussain conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Christof Loy. The cast will include Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Adam Smith, and Noel Bouley. Performance Dates: Sept. 30–Nov. 4 2022 Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Yeomen of the Guard” will include Anthony Gregory, Neal Davies, Alexandra Oomens, Heather {…}

News, Streaming

Pittsburgh Opera to Stream 2020-21 Season

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Pittsburgh Opera has announced plans to rebroadcast its 2020-21 season via live stream starting this month. The company will present a production of “Semele” starring Aaron Couch, Véronique Filloux, Jeremy Harr, Madeline Ehlinger, Maine Therese Carmack, Yazid Gray, and Meghan DeWald. Streaming Dates: August 26 & 27, 2021 “Così fan tutte” starred Véronique Filloux, Jeremy Harr, Madeline Ehlinger, Maine Therese {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, Mariusz Kwiecien, Jasmine Muhammad Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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Full disclaimer – this week’s recommendations, with the exception of two works that you can watch right now, all take place between Friday and Sunday (with an emphasis on Friday when half of the recommendations are set to take place). So yes, in many ways this is more of a weekend edition of streams. In any case, here are the {…}

News, Streaming

Pittsburgh Opera to Present ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’

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Pittsburgh Opera will present the first-ever Pittsburgh performances of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird.” The work will be presented at the Strip District from April 10 through 22 with a live, socially-distant audience at all six performances. Pittsburgh Opera is maintaining its successful COVID-19 safety protocols, including reduced seating capacity, mandatory mask-wearing, health screenings and temperature checks for all people entering the building, {…}

IndieOpera

Birmingham Opera to Stage ‘Das Rheingold’ at Industrial Site

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Birmingham Opera has announced it will be staging a 2021 production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” featuring an international cast and local volunteer performers led by Artistic Director Graham Vick and new Music Director Alpesh Chauhan. The performance, which comes in partnership with Urban Splash, will be held at The Tubeworks on Icknield Port Loop, a disused metalworks which is set {…}

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On Site Opera to Encore Stream of ‘Morning Star’

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On Site Opera in New York has added an additional live stream to its 4-part series of encore presentations. The company, which has streamed past opera performances from its archives over the last month, will offer a watch party of its 2018 production of Ricky Ian Gordon and William Hoffman’s “Morning Star,” originally performed at the Museum at Eldridge Street {…}

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Angela Meade, Frederick Ballentine, Ramón Vargas Headline Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America

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The theme of the weekend is world premieres. There are a lot of them. That said, we did find some space for a classic opera in there. Roberto Devereux – Los Angeles Opera To kick things off we head to LA where the company will showcase the bel canto masterpiece with Angela Meade as the famed Queen Elisabeth and Ramón {…}

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Anna Denisova, Patrick Terry & Brindley Sherratt Lead Opera North 2020-21 Season

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(Image Source: Opera North Facebook Page) Opera North has just announced its 2020-21 Season, featuring seven operas. Performance venues include the Leeds Grand Theatre, Theatre Royal Newcastle, The Lowry,  and the Theatre Royal Nottingham for the first six operas. “Parsifal” will be performed at the Leeds Town Hall, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, Sage Gateshead, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: Akhnaten

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Philip Glass has a solid trajectory at the Metropolitan Opera. Though few of his operas have had major representation at the hallowed house, their scant performances have tended to be major successes, often flanked by fantastically conceived productions that manage to get the utmost of his meditative masterworks. “Satyagraha” remains one of the great achievements in the Peter Gelb era, {…}