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Mark Padmore, Elsa Dreisig, Mercedes Gancedo, & Hugo Brady Take the Stage in LIFE Victoria 2025

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(Photo credits: Borggreve, Fowler, & Reason) The Lied Festival Victoria de los Ángeles (LIFE Victoria) has announced its 2025 lineup. This article only features vocal works. Soprano Elsa Dreisig and pianist Romain Louveau perform Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” along with works by Ravel, Pesson, Ströhl, and Fauré. Performance Date: February 11, 2025 A double bill of Poulenc’s “La voix humaine” and “La {…}
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Valerie Eickhoff to Make LIFE Victoria Debut

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LIFE Victoria is set to present a performance featuring mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff, on May 21, 2024. This marks the mezzo’s debut after winning the Premio Victoria de los Ángeles at the Concurso de Canto Tenor Viñas. For the occasion, she will present a program alongside pianist Eleonora Pertz that features music by Debussy, Duparc, Mahler, Britten, Korngold, and Weill. Eickhoff {…}
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Marina Viotti & Gabriel Bianco to Present Recital at LIFE Victoria

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Mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti and guitarist Gabriel Bianco will join forces for a concert at LIFE Victoria in Barcelona. The performance, slated for April 22, 2024, will include works by Fauré, Piazzola, Almarán, Massenet, Barbara, Machín, de Falla, and Brel. The showcase will focus on Spanish songs from around the world. In addition to this performance, Viotti will perform in a {…}
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Natalie Dessay, Adriana González, Marina Viotti & Simon Keenlyside Lead LIFE Victoria’s 2023-24 Season

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LIFE Victoria has announced its 2023-24 season celebrating Victoria de Los Angeles’ centenary. Natalia Labourdette, Laurence Kilsby, and Kunal Lahiry perform alongside LIFE New Artists Milan Perišić and Quimey Urquiaga. Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2023 Siobhan Stagg and Kunal Lahiry perform alongside LIFE New Artists Inés López and Jesús López Blanco. The program includes music by Ravel, Duparc, Fauré, Canteloube, {…}
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Sarah Connolly Postpones Participation In LIFE Victoria

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Sarah Connolly has postponed her participation in the LIFE Victoria. The foundation announced that due to illness, Connolly postponed the scheduled recital. As a recital was rescheduled for Oct. 2, 2020, at el Sant Pau Recinte Modernista. In a press statement, the Victoria de Los Ángeles Foundation also wished Connolly a speedy recovery and stated that ticket-holders will be able {…}
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Q & A: James Adler & Victoria Livengood on the New Album ‘That Star in the Picture’ & Breathing New Life Into ‘Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem’

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(Photo credits: Ben Livengood & Frank Gimpaya) Composer James Adler and Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood met with OperaWire to discuss the new album, “That Star in the Picture,” which features a re-recording of “Pie Jesu” from Adler’s “Memento mori: An AIDS Requiem” (2001). In recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, we began by discussing “Memento Mori.” The {…}
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Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation Announces NYC Events to Celebrate Legendary Soprano’s Met Opera Debut 75 Years Ago

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The Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation will celebrate the legendary soprano’s 75 anniversary of her Metropolitan Opera debut with a series of events. On Feb. 24 at 6 p.m., the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation will officially launch its American Friends initiative at the Tagore Gallery in New York, establishing a philanthropic network of American patrons to support the Foundation’s {…}
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Q & A: Soprano Laura Helene Hansen on What Interests Her Most in Life & Singing

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(Photo: Victoria Elmas) (Warning: this article contains explicit language) Danish soprano Laura Helene Hansen trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, and the Opera Academy of the Royal Danish Opera, where her roles included Cio-Cio-San, Contessa Almaviva, Manon Lescaut, Die Marschallin and Elisabetta. She was also a subject of the TV series The Next Diva in Denmark last year. {…}

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