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News, Season Announcement

Orquesta & Coro RTVE Announce 2025-26 Season Featuring Sofía Gutiérrez, Carmen Solís, Rocío Pérez & Christian Immler

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The Orquesta and Coro RTVE have announced their 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Orquesta Sinfónica y Coro RTVE under Christoph König will perform Boulanger and Mahler.  Performance Date: Oct. 9 & 10, 2025 Christoph König conducts Faure’s Requiem and Schiaffino’s “Metalepsis” Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2025 Katerina Knezikova and Christian Immler lead Brahms’ Requiem {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Cecilia Bartoli, Marina Rebeka, Karita Mattila, Benjamin Appl, Rolando Villazón, & Elsa Dreisig Lead Elbphilharmonie Hamburg’s 2025-26 Season

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The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances for the season. The Symphoniker Hamburg, alongside Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Chor Hamburg and Knabenchor Hannover, perform Rufus Wainwright’s Dream Requiem. Mandy Fredrich and Isabelle Huppert are the soloists with Lucie Leguay conducting. Performance Date: August 22 & 23, 2025 Manuel Winckhler, Mauro Peter, Kathryn Lewek, Elsa Dreisig, Äneas {…}

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Vasily Petrenko to Conduct George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler Symphony No. 2

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The George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” on April 16 and 17, 2024 at the Ateneul Roman in Bucharest. The showcase will be conducted by Vasily Petrenko and features Katerina Kněžíková and Roxana Constantinescu as the vocal soloists. The concert kicks off at 7 p.m. local time. “This work transports you to another world. It {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, Marina Rebeka, Bryn Terfel, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez & Pretty Yende Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Oliver Mears. Anna Netrebko and Aleksandra Kurzak share the title role. Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley also star. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 7, 2025 Speranza Scappucci conducts Verdi’s “I vespri siciliani” in a revival of Stefan Herheim’s production. Marina {…}

News, Season Announcement

Benjamin Bernheim, Günther Groissböck, Camilla Nylund, Eleonora Buratto, Elīna Garanča & Aigul Akhmetshina Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2025-26 Season

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The Musikverein Wien has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Herbert Lippert Joins the Philharmonia Schrammeln for “Das is’ die Wiener G’müatlichkeit.” Performance Dates: Sept. 29, 2025 Camilla Nylund and Helmut Deutsch perform lieder by Antonín Dvořák, Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius Performance Dates: Oct. 1, 2025 Martin Haselböck conducts the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Janáček Brno Festival 2024 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo: Marek Olbrzymek) During a walk in the forests outside Brno, Rudolf Těsnohlidek and his friends came across an abandoned baby that was left to freeze under a tree. The unmarried mother was eventually found and claimed she was hoping that the child would be discovered and given a better life. Unfortunately, such incidents were not uncommon in the early {…}

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Glyndebourne Unveils the Entirety of its Autumn 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Tristram Kenton) Glyndebourne has announced the full program for its Autumn 2025 Season. The first mainstage operas is a revival of Floris Visser’s Festival 2022 production of  Puccini’s “La bohème, conducted by Adam Hickox. Additionally, Bertie Baigent conducts a revival of Peter Hall’s 1981 Festival production of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Händel’s “Messiah”  featuring the Glyndebourne Chorus and {…}

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Carnegie Hall to Spotlight Czech Music This December

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This December, Carnegie Hall Citywide will present a series of concerts to celebrate Czech music. For opera fans, the spotlight will shine on three of the six performances in particular. First up, Lukáš Vasilek leads the Prague Philharmonic Choir in a program featuring traditional folk songs. This showcase will take place at Times Square on Dec. 4, 2024 at 2 {…}

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National Forum of Music Announces 2024-25 Season

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The National Forum of Music announces its 2024-25 and tenth anniversary season. For the purposes of this article only vocal works are included. Andrzej Kosendiak conducts the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and soloists Anett Fritsch, Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak, and Paweł Horodyski in Mozart’s “Mass in C minor,” KV 427. They are joined by the NFM Choir under the direction {…}