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TENET Vocal Artists Unveils 2022-23 Season

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TENET Vocal Artists has announced its 2022-23 season. First up is a program entitled “Motets of J.S. Bach” with such soloists as Jolle Greenleaf, Molly Quinn, Clifton Massey, Thomas Parsons, James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Charles Wesley Evans, and Jonathan Woody. The showcase will take place at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. Performance Date: Sept. 18, 2022 Next up is “Polifonía de {…}

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TENET Vocal Artists Announces 2021-22 Season

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TENET  Vocal Artists has announced its 2021-22 season which will mark a return to in-person concerts. The new series is entitled “Keeping Time” and features several concerts zeroing in on a major baroque composers. All concerts will be presented in person, but will also be made available online for three days followed each performance. First up will be a performance {…}

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TENET Vocal Arts to Stream ‘Songs of the Trouvères’

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TENET Vocal Artists is set to present a unique final concert for its 2021-22 season. The showcase, entitled “Songs of the Trouvères,” will feature Jolle Greenleaf, Virginia Warnken Kelsey, and Jason McStoots along with instrumentalists Grant Herreid, Priscilla Herreid, Robert Mealy, and Charles Weaver. “Like every other performing ensemble in this most extraordinary and difficult of all years, we initially despaired of being able to keep {…}

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Teatro Massimo 2025-26 Review: ‘Pagliacci’ & ‘Aleko’

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(Credit: Rosselina Garbo) Can traditional opera really influence modern society and force it to reexamine its shortcomings? Can it impact the pressing issues of our times? Certainly, the powers that be at the Teatro Massimo opera house in Palermo believe so. And, judging by their opening night presentation combination of two short operas, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Aleko” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” {…}

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Brick Presbyterian Church Unveils 2025-26 Season

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New York’s Brick Presbyterian Church has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. The Chancel Choir and instrumental ensemble will present “A World of Faith.” The program will feature “Prélude sur le Veni Creator” by Maurice Duruflé, the 13th-century “Communion Verse,” “Farafeza Longa” by Riyad Al-Sunbati, “Adinu,” “Oseh Shalom” by Nurit Hirsh (arranged by Elaine Broad {…}

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CD Review: Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci’s ‘Adriano in Siria’

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Carl Heinrich Graun’s “Adriano in Siria”—set to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio—is a compelling example of mid-18th-century opera seria, a genre that once dominated the European stage. First performed in Berlin in 1746, Graun’s setting was one of more than seventy opera settings of Metastasio’s libretto between 1732 and 1828, attesting to its immense popularity. This new live recording from {…}

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New Sussex Opera 2025 Review: The Silver Bell

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“It’s not an opera anymore, it’s a nightmare,” Camille Saint-Saëns famously wrote in 1880, when asked to produce a potential SIXTH version of his FIRST ever opera “Le timbre d’argent” (“The Silver Bell”) for a St Petersburg production which, like so many of its previous productions, was eventually abandoned. Commissioned in 1864, it saw its first abandonment at its inception, {…}

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Latvian National Opera 2025 Review: Salome

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(Photo: Agnese Zeltiņa | Files.fm.) I’m not generally given to elaborating on opera plots; preferring for the audience to discover them for themselves, even where the outline of the tale is fairly well known. Alas, I feel somewhat compelled to at least superficially proffer some brief abridgement of “Salome,” if only to illustrate and accentuate the bizarre, outlandish and frequently {…}