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Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča, Nicholas Brownlee, Lisette Oropesa, Pretty Yende & Christopher Maltman Lead Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2024-25 Season

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres  Tobias Krazter directs a new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” with Nicholas Brownlee, Milan Siljanov, Sean Panikkar, Markus Brück, Matthias Klink, Matthew Rose, Timo Riihonen, Ekaterina Gubanova, Mirjam Mesak, and Wiebke Lehmkuhl. Vladimir Jurowski conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 27, 2024-July 31, 2025 Damiano Michieletto directs Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” with {…}
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Lise Davidsen, Benjamin Bernheim, Freddie De Tommaso, Angel Blue, Piotr Beczala Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 Live in HD Slate

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The Metropolitan Opera has its Live in HD series for the 2024-25 season. “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” opens the Live in HD season. The opera stars Benjamin Bernheim, Christian Van Horn, Clémentine Margaine, Pretty Yende, and Erin Morley. Marco Armiliato conducts. Screening Date: Oct. 5, 2024 Next up is “Grounded.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast starring Emily D’Angelo, Kirsten MacKinnon, Ben Bliss, {…}
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Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Lise Davidsen & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. New Productions  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s “Aida” in a new production by Michael Mayer. Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Morris Robbinson. Alexander Soddy conducts the second cast with Christina Nilsson, Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Eri Owens, Michael Chioldi, Amartüvshin Enkhbatyn, Alexander Vinogradov, and Krzysztof Bączyk. John {…}
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Aigul Akhmetshina & Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Lead Royal Opera House’s New ‘Carmen’

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The Royal Opera House is set to perform a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” directed by Damiano Michieletto. The opera will be performed between April 5 and May 31, 2024 and will be broadcast on May 1, 2024 in the cinema theatres of over 50 countries. Micheieletto has directed three other productions at the Royal Opera House including “Guillaume Tell {…}
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Roberto Alagna, Elena Pankratova, Christine Goerke & Aleksandra Kurzak Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Turandot’

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “Turandot” for 17 performances. The production will showcase Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv in her Met debut with two casts. The first cast will feature Elena Pankratova in the title role opposite tenor SeokJong Baek as Calàf. They will be joined by Aleksandra Kurzak as Liù and  Vitalij Kowaljow {…}
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The Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘La Bohème‘

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The Metropolitan Opera has announces change for “La Bohème” on Oct. 28, 2023. The company said “for today’s performance of Puccini’s ‘La Bohème,’ the role of Rodolfo will be sung by Stephen Costello replacing Matthew Polenzani. Costello has performed the role on numerous occasions at the Met, Bayerische Staatsoper, New National Theatre, and Deutsche Oper Berlin, among others. This season {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: La Bohème

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Photo: ©Met Opera press Metropolitan Opera is presenting Puccini’s “La Bohème” with set designs by the masterful Franco Zeffirelli for its 2023-24 season run with a total of 18 performances which began on October 10th, continuing through January 3, 2024. The season opener marked the 1,347th performance at the opera house, and in order to not get lost in the {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘La Bohème’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its performance of “La Bohème” on Oct. 13, 2023. The company said that the role of Colline will be sung by Scott Conner who replaces Christian Van Horn. Conner made his Met debut as the Police Commissioner in “Der Rosenkavalier” in 2017. He has since reprised his role in “Der Rosenkavalier” {…}
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Federica Lombardi & Anita Hartig Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Bohème’

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive Puccini’s “La Bohème” for 18 performances in the fall and winter. The opera, which is set to run between Oct. 10 and Jan. 13, will first star Federica Lombardi in the lead role alongside Matthew Polenzani, Olga Kulchynska, and Adam Plachetka. The cast also includes Sean Michael Plumb in his Met role debut as {…}

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