Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko & Nino Machaidze Highlight Opera Royal De Wallonie’s 2019-20 Season

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The Opera Royal de Wallonie-Liege has announced its 2019-20 season featuring nine operas, six of which are new productions. Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” opens the season in a new production by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera. Two casts will be led under the baton of Speranza Scappucci, featuring Svetlana Aksenova and Yasko Sato sharing the title role, Alexey Dolgov and Dominick Chenes {…}

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Russell Thomas, Leah Crocetto and Kathryn Lewek Highlight Washington National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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Washington National Opera has announced its 2019-20 season! The lineup consists of six main-stage operas: two new productions, three productions new to Washington, and the D.C. premiere of a Zambello-commissioned work by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson. Additionally, the American Opera Initiative will return for “Three 20-Minute Operas,” which will showcase the work of three new composer-librettist teams during {…}

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Oper Frankfurt 2018-19 Review: Rinaldo

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Most musicologists concur that Handel did a major cut and paste job on “Rinaldo,” as more than two thirds of the score was cribbed from earlier compositions. There are also three versions of this tremendously successful opera from 1711, 1717 and 1731. Depending on singers’ availability and vocal condition, innumerable nips and tucks occurred at almost all 53 performances during Handel’s {…}

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Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

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Yes, it’s that time of the year where we wax poetic about transformative experiences we have had over the course of the last 300 or so days. Sometimes we curate these experiences as rankings to fuel some individual emotions, and at other moments we simply do what we are doing with this piece – let a few different people chip {…}

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Analysis: Friday Nights with Yury Revich at the Theater an der Wien

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On any given evening in Vienna there are more musical performances going on than slices of sticky orangey chocolate cake being wolfed down at the Café Sacher. Opera aficionados and admirers of musicals can avail themselves of concurrent offerings at the splendiferous Staatsoper, the folksy Volksoper, the cosy Kammeroper, the recherché Ronacher and Raimund theaters or the historically pre-eminent Theater {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Interview: The ‘Vicenza in Lirica’ Cast On Taking On Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ & Love For Baroque Music

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One of the events at this year’s “Vicenza in Lirica” was a production of Henry Purcell’s semi-opera “King Arthur,” in collaboration with the Conservatory “A. Pedrollo” of Vicenza, which provided a marvellous opportunity for its students to perform in front of the paying public in the magnificent surroundings of the Teatro Olimpico, the oldest indoor theatre in Europe. OperaWire was {…}

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Interview: Soprano Meghan Picerno’s Balancing Act

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Throughout history, many opera stars have managed to make the crossover to Broadway and musical theatre, enjoying successful careers in both. Most recently, Renée Fleming earned raves for her work in “Carousel” on Broadway. Paolo Szot is another in recent years who has also managed a successful development in both arenas as well. Coloratura soprano Meghan Picerno is another taking {…}

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Q & A: Aprile Millo On Her London Debut & Her Return To ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’

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Newsday once described Aprile Millo as “the high priestess of that old time operatic religion.” Indeed, Millo is still one of the few remaining divas of the past who continues to thrill audiences with her passionate and intense voice and whose sheer honesty continues to bring audiences back to a different time in the opera chronology. A huge exponent of {…}

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Brenda Rae, Jakub Józef Orliński & Malin Byström To Be Featured In Oper Frankfurt’s 2018-19 Season

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Oper Frankfurt has announced its 2018-19 season, featuring 14 new productions, a number of revivals and recitals. The season will feature a number of Frankfurt premieres and one world premiere. Here is a look at what to expect. New Productions Peter Eötvös ‘s “Tri sestry” gets its first Frankfurt performances in a new production by Dorothea Kirschbaum. The unique opera, {…}

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Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko & Nino Machaidze Highlight Opera Royal De Wallonie’s 2019-20 Season

Russell Thomas, Leah Crocetto and Kathryn Lewek Highlight Washington National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Oper Frankfurt 2018-19 Review: Rinaldo

Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

Analysis: Friday Nights with Yury Revich at the Theater an der Wien

Interview: The ‘Vicenza in Lirica’ Cast On Taking On Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ & Love For Baroque Music

Interview: Soprano Meghan Picerno’s Balancing Act

Q & A: Aprile Millo On Her London Debut & Her Return To ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’

Brenda Rae, Jakub Józef Orliński & Malin Byström To Be Featured In Oper Frankfurt’s 2018-19 Season