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Natalie Dessay, Erin Morley, Benjamin Bernheim & Varduhi Abrahamyan Lead Opéra National de Bordeaux’s 2022-23 Season

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The Opéra National de Bordeaux has announced its 2022-23 season featuring opera, ballet, concert, and great voices. Opera Paul Daniel conducts Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Yoshi Oïda directing. Karah Son, Virginie Verrez, Riccardo Massi, and André Heyboer. Performance Dates: Nov. 10-21, 2022 Roberto González-Monjas conducts Mozart’s Requiem in a production by Stéphane Braunschweig. The cast includes Hélène Carpentier, Fleur Barron, {…}

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Dorothea Röschmann, Enkeleda Kamani & Mario Rojas Lead Opera National de Lorraine’s 2022-23 Season

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The Opera National de Lorraine has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the opera productions. Opera Viktoriia Vitrenko stars in “Rendez-vous près du feu.” Performance Dates:  Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2022 Eldar’s “Like Flesh” will star Helena Rasker, William Dazeley, and Juliette Allen with Maxime Pascal conducting and Silvia Costa directing. Performance Dates: Sept, 28-Oct. 2, 2022 “L’Amour des {…}

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Juan Diego Flórez, Lisette Oropesa, Federica Lombardi, Étienne Dupuis & Kate Lindsey Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s Streaming Slate

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(Credit: Wiener Staatsoper official website) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced the slate of operas that it will be presenting on its streaming platform over the next week. First up is a performance of Donizetti’s “L’elisir d’amore” from 2016 which will showcase Valentina Naforniţă, Stephen Costello, Marco Caria, and Erwin Schrott. Marco Armiliato conducts a production by Otto Schenk. Streaming date: {…}

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Wiener Staatsoper Announces Cast Change for ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’

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(Credit: Rosetta Greek) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced that Kate Lindsey will sing the role of Nerone replacing Virginie Verrez in an upcoming revival of “L’incoronazione di Poppea.” Lindsey first sang the production by Jan Lauwers at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 and later premiered it at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2021. The mezzo-soprano is well known for her work {…}

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Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier 2021 Announces Repertoire Change

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(Credit: Lim Kiihwan) The Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier 2021 has announced the cancellation of the concert version of Massenet’s opera “Bacchus” that was scheduled for July 26. The opera was set to star Catherine Hunold, John Osborn, Virginie Verrez, Nicolas Testé, Jérôme Boutillier, Sébastien Droy, Florie Valiquette, and Philippe Nicolas-Martin alongside conductor Michael Schønwandt. As a replacement, the festival {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Ermonela Jaho, Golda Schultz, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Ludovic Tézier Headline Radio France’s 2021-22 Season

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Radio France has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on the vocal works. Here is a look. Operas Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges” spotlights  Jodie Devos, Clara Guillon, Adèle Charvet, Marie Lenormand, Élodie Méchain, Antoine Normand, Régis Mengus, and Paul Gay. Mikko Franck conducts. Performance date: Oct. 1, 2021, Philharmonie de Paris {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Nina Stemme, Lisette Oropesa & Juan Diego Flórez Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s 2021-22 Season

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2021-22 season which will spotlight some of the world’s greatest performers and five new productions. Here is the full slate. Premieres Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will showcase Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva, Marianne Crebassa as Rosina, Davide Luciano in the role of Figaro, Paolo Bordogna as Bartolo, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Basilio. {…}

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Juan Diego Flórez, Nicole Car & Andrè Schuen Highlight Wiener Staatsoper’s Streaming Week

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced a week of streaming featuring performances from the 2020-21 season. Here is a look at what the week will offer. Andrè Schuen, Federica Lombardi, Louise Alder, Philippe Sly, and Virginie Verrez star in Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro“ from a performance from earlier in 2021. Philippe Jordan conducts. Streaming Date: May 12, 2021 Georg Nigl, {…}

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Sonya Yoncheva, Adriana Gonzalez & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier’s 2021 Season

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(Credit: Marc Ginot) The Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier in France has announced the 2021 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the vocal and operatic performances. Le Concert Spirituel, under conductor Hervé Niquet, performs an all-Handel program including God Save the King. Performance Date: July 15, 2021 Adriana Gonzalez and Thibaut Garcia join the {…}