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Bard SummerScape & Music Festival Announces 2026 Season

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The Bard SummerScape and Music Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal selections. Opera/SummerScape Courtney Bryan and Gideon Lester’s “Suddenly Last Summer” will make its world premiere in a production by Daniel Fish. Nathan Koci conducts the work with a cast that includes Mikaela Bennett as Catharine Holly and Tina Benko as Mrs. Venable. Performance Dates: {…}
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Finn Sagal Joins IMG Artists for General Management

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(Credit: Kirstine Walton) Baritone Finn Sagal has joined IMG Artists for general management. Sagal will be represented by Executive Vice President and Global Head of Vocal, Matthew Horner. The baritone has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pasadena Symphony, and with the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco.  He is a recipient of the 2025 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the {…}
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Gregory Feldmann Joins IMG Artists for General Management

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(Credit: Daniel Welch) Baritone Gregory Feldmann has joined IMG Artists for general management. Feldmann will be represented by Senior Artist Manager, Callan Coughlan-Davies. In a statement the baritone said, “I’m honored and thrilled to join IMG Artists, a deeply storied roster full of artists I revere. I’m grateful to chart this path with Callan Coughlan-Davies, whose vision, empathy, and integrity {…}
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Bard’s Summerscape Festival 2025 Review: Dalibor

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Many who visit OperaWire regularly have their various interests in what one might call, operatic “rarities”–works that have achieved, to an extent, legendary status despite being seldom staged. As an avid lover of Hector Berlioz’s archetypal romantic career, I devoured both the Barzun and Cairns biographies of the composer more than once. And such a rarity mentioned was Spontini’s “La {…}
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Bard Summerscape Announces Cast Change for ‘Dalibor’ Due to Visa Issues

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The Bard Summerscape has announced a cast change for its production of Smetana’s “Dalibor.” The company said that due to visa challenges, John Matthew Myers and Cadie J. Bryan will take over the lead roles, replacing Ladislav Elgr (Dalibor) and Izabela Matuła (Milada), who were announced. Myers has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, and Carnegie Hall, while {…}
Stage Reviews

American Symphony Orchestra 2025 Review: Guntram

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(Photo: Matt Dine) On June 6, 2025, Carnegie Hall hosted the American Symphony Orchestra’s concert revival of Richard Strauss’s first opera, “Guntram.” Rarely mentioned alongside “Salomé” or “Der Rosenkavalier,” “Guntram” reveals a young composer grappling with grand ideas. Strauss stumbled, learned, and went on to compose a total of fourteen operas. Audiences can hear Wagner in nearly every bar of {…}
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Jacquelyn Wagner, Eduardo Aladrén, Ramona Zaharia, Maria Kataeva, Liana Aleksanyan & Alexey Zelenkov Lead Deutsche Oper am Rhein’s 2025-26 Season

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The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced its 2025-26 season. Premiere  Jacquelyn Wagner, John Matthew Myers, Simon Neal, Hans-Peter König, Anna Sophia Theil, Lavinia Dames, Riccardo Romeo, Henry Ross, Luke Stoker, and Žilvinas Miškinis star in Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Vitali Alekseenok and Harry Ogg conduct the concert performances.  Performance Dates: Sept. 10-Oct. 24, 2025 Antonino Fogliani conducts Donizetti’s “Prima La Mamma” {…}

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