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Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Sherezade Panthaki On the Art of Baroque Music

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Sherezade Panthaki is one of today’s most recognized Baroque singers. An acknowledged star in the early-music field, she has performed with some of the most prestigious Baroque and early period orchestras, as well as with such prominent conductors as Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Mark Morris, Nicholas Kraemer, Matthew Halls, Paul Agnew, and Lawrence Cummings. This weekend, Sherezade Panthaki returns to {…}

Season Announcement

Santa Fe Pro Musica Announes 2025-26 Season

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Santa Fe Pro Musica presents its 2025-26 season. This article only features vocal events. Gabriel Kahane performs music by Dvořák in the opening concert. Performance Date: October 5, 2025 Soprano Sherezade Panthaki headlines “A Baroque Christmas.” Performance Date: December 20, 2025 Soprano Sherezade Panthaki joins the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra in a concert featuring Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” Performance Date: {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Boston Early Music Festival 2025 Review: Octavia

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(Photo: Kathy Wittman) Once every other year, Boston becomes THE city to be in if you are a hardcore early music addict. While many festivals claim to focus on early music, they often stick to the usual crowd-pleasers—Bach, one of the Scarlatti’s, Vivaldi, etc. The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) offers something stronger. Under the leadership of Paul O’Dette and {…}

News

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem Announces 2025 Bethlehem Bach Festival

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The Bach Choir of Bethlehem has announced its 117th Bethlehem Bach Festival, titled, “A Reimagined Celebration of Music, Tradition, and Bach.” The four-day celebration of Bach features beloved traditions, acclaimed performers, and fresh new programming. This year the festival takes on a streamlined format, transforming the event into one immersive, long weekend filled with the music, scholarship, and community that define the {…}

News

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is the rundown of the vocal performances on offer. All performances are set to take place at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, the Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, and First Congregational Church in Berkeley. First up is “Vivaldi, Venice, and ‘The Four Seasons.’” The showcase will feature soprano {…}

News

Santa Fe Pro Musica to Present Mozart’s Requiem

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Santa Fe Pro Musica is staging two performances of Mozart’s “Requiem,” conducted by Thomas O’Connor, the weekend of April 27th and April 28th 2024.  Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, featuring soprano Sherezade Panthaki, alto Meg Bragle, tenor Thomas Cooley, and bass-baritone Douglas Williams, will accompany the Pro Musica Orchestra in presenting the Austrian master’s final work. The 75-minute program opens {…}

News

The San Francisco Early Music Society Presents ‘Invitation to a Salon’

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The San Francisco Early Music Society will present soprano Sherezade Panthaki and the early music ensemble Musica Pacifica in “Invitation to a Salon,” a French Baroque concert. The program features music that would have been enjoyed in a typical Parisian salon of the mid-18th century; suites and sonatas by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jean-Marie Leclair; one of Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Paris” {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Joyce El-Khoury, Eric Ferring, & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead new CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. For this edition, we will spotlight audiences will get a chance to learn about a number of world premiere pieces and recordings as well as solo albums by young artists in the industry. We Have Tomorrow American tenor Eric Ferring releases his latest {…}

News

TENET Vocal Artists Unveils 2023-24 Season

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New York’s TENET Vocal Artists has announced its 2023 Fall / Winter and 15th anniversary season. The season opens with “Angels and Queens,” which spotlights music by Purcell and his contemporaries. Soloists include Jolle Greenleaf, James Reese, Elisa Sutherland, and Jonathan Woody. The event will take place at St. Luke in the Fields. Performance Date: Oct. 21, 2023 Next up {…}