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Met Opera ‘Akhnaten’ Leads Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend In North America

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With the 2019-20 season fully underway, we have found this challenge of selecting a choice few operas every weekend increasingly challenging as there is really a lot of special work going on around North America. Nonetheless, as per usual, we have whittled it down to five works that we think will bring a balanced operatic diet for those who want {…}
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Ópera de Colombia Announces 2020 Slate As It Celebrates World Opera Day

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The Ópera de Colombia will celebrate World Opera Day on Oct. 26 with a transmission on Canal Capital of the opera “La princesa y la arveja.” The production is the third that the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá did last year during the Festival Ópera al Parque. In Cali, Donizetti’s “Lucia Di Lamermoor” will be presented and the Teatro Municipal Enrique {…}
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Festival Ópera al Parque To Present ‘Dido And Aeneas’

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The XXII Festival Ópera al Parque el Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo is set to present Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” The opera is part of the “proyecto del Taller de ópera Uniandes” that was selected from a number of operatic projects and will feature a production by Pedro Salazar which was previously shown at the Universidad de Los Andes {…}
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The Xen of Opera: Exploring The Creation of ‘Nahasdzáán In The Glittering World’

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Opera, Song and Music Theater is quivering, twisting, and turning. Could it be that we are in an  renaissance? There is a new blood pulsing through its veins. Opera and theater makers are pulling at its heart, resuscitating our interest and taking us to diverse locations with as yet unclassifiable languages and forms. The Xen of Opera looks at the {…}
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Productions from McVicar, Langridge & Mariani Headline Gothenburg Opera’s 2019-20 season

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The Gothenburg Opera, the International Opera Awards Company of the Year nominee for 2019, revealed its plans for next season.  The season will open with a Steven Langridge production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro,” conducted by Rory McDonald. Ida Falk Winland and Mattias Ermedahl will sing the Countess and the Count, while Mia Karlsson and Henning von Schulman will {…}
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Dena And Martin LaMar Join Pittsburgh Opera Board Of Directors

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Pittsburgh Opera has announced that Dena and Martin LaMar have joined its Board of Directors. Dena LaMar, an alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University and University of Northern Virginia, is the Regional Vice President for the Great Lakes Regions at Advance Auto Parts Inc. She serves on the Boards of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, and {…}
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Renée Fleming Headlines North Carolina Symphony’s 2019-20 Season

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The North Carolina Symphony has announced its 2019-20 season with a number of crossover concerts, classical repertoire, and operatic selections. For this article, we have only chosen the opera or vocal performances. In time for the holiday season, the North Carolina Master Chorale joins NCS for Handel’s Messiah. Ellie Dehn, Andrew Owens, and Federico de Michelis are the soloists in the evening, which {…}
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Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend – North America (1/19-21)

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January is more than halfway done and a lot of companies are starting up again with unique performances. This week’s picks center on works composed in the 20th century and beyond, with one exception. Here’s the list (in alphabetical order by company).  As One – Alamo City Opera For two nights (Saturday and Sunday), Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly {…}
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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (1/11-13)

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As we enter the second weekend of January the opera schedule starts to get busier around North America, especially with the Prototype Festival in full swing. Many of those works were in last week’s recommendations and they still stand. But there are other major productions worth considering for your opera enjoyment this weekend (in alphabetical order by company). Stinney – {…}

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