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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2021-22 Season

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The Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe in Germany has announced its 2021-22 season featuring ballet, theater, and opera. For this article, we will only highlight the opera productions. Premieres Mozart’s “La Finta Giardiniera” will get a new production with Yura Yang conducting and Anja Kühnhold directing. Premiere Date: Oct. 23, 2021 Emmerich Kálmán’s “Grafin Mariza” gets a new production with Georg Fritzsch {…}

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Beijing Music Festival 2018 Festival Review: Orfeo

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Over the past decade, opera has evolved with many composers experimenting and infusing new ideas into the art form. That was what Fay Kueen Wang and Zou Shuang did when they created the new work “Orfeo.” The work, which was promoted as an “immersive opera,” had its world premiere at the Beijing Music Festival and the results were visually gorgeous {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (10/19-21)

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It’s another week of discovery for OperaWire. Instead of the classic gems of the repertoire, this week we have opted to concentrate on companies presenting rare works as well as modern classics and a world premiere. Here is a look! Orfeo – Beijing Music Festival, China Fay Jueen Wang and Zou Shuang’s new immersive opera makes its world premiere in a {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Il Viaggio A Reims

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) The Wexford Factory Academy is a program offering young singers the opportunity to take part in workshops, masterclasses and performances in the weeks leading up to and during the festival. The highlight of the program is a fully staged production on the festival’s main stage, in which all the roles are performed by the Factory singers. The {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2025-26 Review: The Magic Fountain

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) Interest in Frederick Delius’ operas has never been particularly high; even his best-known opera, “A Village Romeo and Juliet,” receives only the occasional performance. Wexford Festival Opera‘s decision to stage a production of “The Magic Fountain,” his second of six operas, written between 1893 and 1895, was therefore a welcome, if not a surprising, choice for the {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

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(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) History has not been kind to Charles Villiers Stanford’s reputation as an opera composer. During his lifetime he wrote nine complete operas, which, apart from his comic opera “Seamus O’Brien,” was met with limited success. Today, they are rarely performed, and none have found their way into the mainstream repertoire. In 2019, the Wexford Festival Opera produced {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: Puccini – Man Of The Theatre

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) To mark the hundredth anniversary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, the Wexford Festival Opera commissioned William Niall Morris to create a short work celebrating the composer’s life and music. The result was a short piece, lasting about an hour, entitled “Puccini: Man of the Theatre,” which essentially amounted to a selection of his greatest hits linked {…}

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Houston Grand Opera & the Asia Society Texas to Give the World Premiere of ‘The Big Swim’

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(Photo credit: John Matthew Myers) Houston Grand Opera and the Asia Society Texas announced their co-production of the world premiere of Meilina Tsui and  Melisa Tien’s opera “The Big Swim.” The new opera weaves together Eastern and Western cultures, with Tsui’s score incorporating opera buffa, Peking and Cantonese opera, Gregorian chants, American and Asian pop music, animated musicals, and more. {…}