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Teatro Regio di Parma to Present ‘Dolce Cenerentola’

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The Teatro Regio di Parma is set to present “Dolce Cenerentola.” The work is a reduced and interactive version of “La Cenerentola” by Rossini with direction by Simone Guerro and animation by Nadia Milani. There will also be puppetry by Ilaria Comisso. The work will star mezzosoprano Matilde Lazzaroni as Cenerentola, actors Giacomo Occhi as Principe Ramiro/Dandini and Miriam Costamagna {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Piotr Beczala, Juan Diego Flórez & Sonya Yoncheva Lead Arena di Verona’s 2023 Season

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The Fondazione Arena di Verona has announced its 2023 season, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Arena Opera Festival. To celebrate the occasion, the festival will present 50 unrepeatable performances in under three months. The season will open with Verdi’s “Aida” in a new production by Stefano Poda. Marco Armiliato and Daniel Oren conduct a cast that includes {…}
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Teatro Nacional de São Carlos 2021-22 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

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Opera performances resumed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon earlier this year as Portugal’s handling of the pandemic was widely praised as possibly the best within the European Union. In Lisbon, ensembles large and small have begun filling up local church series, community performance spaces, and neighborhood stages, while fado singers have returned to smokey late-night bars {…}
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Eun Sun Kim to Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Concert’

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San Francisco Opera is set to present “The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Concert” on Dec. 10, 2021. The showcase, which marks the culmination of the 2021 Adler Fellows will feature Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Elisa Sunshine and Esther Tonea; mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh; tenors Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero and Christopher Oglesby; baritone Timothy Murray; bass Stefan Egerstrom and pianists Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad and Andrew King. Audiences will hear a wide array of opera scenes, arias, {…}
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San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2022 Adler Fellows

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(Credit: San Francisco Opera official website) The San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam announced the 11 recipients of the 2022 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship. The selected singers to be Adler Fellows in 2022 are sopranos Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Mikayla Sager, Elisa Sunshine, and Esther Tonea; mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beteag; tenors Victor Cardamone and Edward {…}
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Donizetti Opera Festival 2021 Review: Medea in Corinto

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Giovanni Simone Mayr was the maestro di Cappella de Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, and a prolific opera composer during the first half of the 19th century. He composed “Medea in Corinto” for Naples in 1813 and premiered a second version in Bergamo in 1821 with Felice Romani rewriting the libretto—Romani being one of the primary librettists of the bel {…}
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Frederick Ballentine to Receive 2021 Marian Anderson Vocal Award

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(Credit: Jens Fauth) Washington National Opera has announced that tenor Frederick Ballentine has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, in recognition of his artistic accomplishments and great promise of an illustrious career. A Virginia native and a 2018 alumnus of WNO’s Cafritz Young Artist Program, Ballentine made his Metropolitan Opera debut in their acclaimed {…}
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Sphinx Organization Announces 2022 Sphinx Venture Fund Grantees

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The Sphinx Organization has announced the recipients of its 2022 Sphinx Venture Fund grants. The winning projects are the inaugural Nina Simone Piano Competition, the inaugural New York City Opera’s Duncan-Williams Voice Competition, and Composing Inclusion. The piano competition and Composing Inclusion will receive $100,000 in funding, and the voice competition, $97,500. The Nina Simone Piano Competition, named in honor {…}

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