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Opera Australia Unveils 2025 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2025 season. Sydney The season opens with Massenet’s “Cendrillon.” Evan Rogister and Tahu Matheson conduct. Laurent Pelly directs a cast starring Emily Edmonds, Margaret Plummer, Sian Sharp, and Emma Matthews. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2024 – March 28, 2025 “The Barber of Seville,” in a production by Elijah Moshinsky, stars Samuel Dale Johnson, Samuel Dundas, {…}
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Opera Australia 2024, Review: Così fan tutte

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(Photo credit:  Keith Saunders) How seriously should we take the story of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte”? It’s a story that many since Mozart’s day have considered cynical if not downright misogynistic. Two men, Ferrando and Guglielmo (here played by New Zealand-Tongan tenor Filipe Manu and Australian baritone Nathan Lay, respectively) wager with a bitter older man, Don Alfonso (here played {…}
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Opera Australia 2023-24 Review: Theodora

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(Photo Credit: Keith Saunders) Opera Australia’s summer season continued on February 8 with a chance to hear Handel’s favorite among his oratorios. What was it? 1739’s “Saul?” “Messiah” of 1742? Neither. In a coproduction with baroque specialists Pinchgut Opera, Opera Australia presented “Theodora,” Handel’s oratorio from 1750. This was a semi-staged version directed by Lindy Hume, who has been Opera {…}
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Christophe Dumaux, Kang Wang, Samantha Clarke, Stacey Alleaume, Cathy-Di Zhang Headline Opera Australia’s 2024 Sydney Season

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Opera Australia announced its 2024 summer season which will feature five Sydney Opera House premieres. Guest Creative Director Lindy Hume curated the season. The program highlights the scope of Australian talent both “on and off the stage,” as well as international guest artists and opera in contemporary storytelling. Hume’s program includes several milestone partnerships for Opera Australia including Victorian Opera, {…}
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Pinchgut Opera To Showcase Australian Premiere of Vivaldi’s ‘Farnace’

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Pinchgut Opera is set to present the first Australian performances of Vivaldi’s “Farnace.” Performances are set for Dec. 4-10, 2019 at the City Recital Hall Sydney. The cast will include Christopher Lowrey, Helen Sherman, Jacqueline Dark, Taryn Fiebig, and Max Riebl, among others. Erin Helyard will conduct a production directed by Mark Gaal. “‘Farnace’ is characterized by women who make moral {…}
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Pinchgut Opera Announces 2019 Season

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The Pinchgut Opera has announced its 2019 season, which will feature two operas, two concerts, and performances in two different cities. The company is billed as Australia’s only Baroque Opera Company, specializing in staging early opera since 2002. This season, the company is set to showcase Monteverdi’s “The Return of Ulysses,” which will be directed by Chas Rader-Shieber and will star {…}
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Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Cecilia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Michael Spyres Lead Philharmonie Essen’s 2024-25 Season

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The Philharmonie Essen has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances of the season. Evelina Liubonko, Sarah Romberger, Thomas Hobbs, and Kresimir Strazanac perform works by Arcangelo Corelli, Francesco Durante, and Georg Friedrich Händel alongside Rias Kammerchor Berlin. Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024 Graun’s “Adriano in Siria” will star Noah Hellwig, Valer Sabadus, Roberta Mameli, Maayan Licht, David {…}
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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 Focuses on the World’s Future

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This article was written in collaboration with David Salazar. The U.K.’s Tête à Tête’s Festival 2021 will gaze into the future, both utopian and dystopian with programming that includes opera dating apps, sword-wielding sopranos, and an interactive operatic ritual. Here’s a look at what’s in store for festival-goers. Kicking off the Festival is a live performance of “Her War.” The {…}
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Portland Opera To Present Rare Mozart Opera This July

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The Portland Opera will present “La Finta Giardiniera” starting on July 12, 2019. The run of the Mozart opera will last six performances, ending on July 27, 2019. The work will be conducted by George Manahan with soprano Lindsay Ohse as Sandrina. Mark A. Thomsen will appear as Podesta. Other cast members include Geoffrey Schellenberg, Helen Huang, Camille Sherman, Thomas {…}

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