Téte à Téte Opera Festival Announces 2019 Season

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The Tête à Tête Opera Festival has announced its new season. The season opens with “Madame Butterflop,” a major subversion of Puccini’s classic. It will star Mary Plazas. Performance Date: July 24, 2019 Next up is “Karaopera, which is a karaoke night for opera lovers. It will be produced by Lucie Treacher at Kings Cross. Performance Date: July 26, 2019 {…}

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Ann Petersen, Christopher Ventris & Michele Losier Highlight Royal Danish Opera’s 2019-2020 Season

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The Royal Danish Opera announced its 2019-20 season, a well balanced season which will feature two world premieres, a musical, a concert version of a Wagner opera, modern rarities, and several favorites. The season opens with Barrie Kosky’s production of “Carmen,” which was previously seen in Frankfurt and in London. French Canadian soprano Michele Losier will sing her first staged Carmen, {…}

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Natalya Romaniw & Wallis Giunta Headline Scottish Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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The Scottish Opera has announced its 2019-20 season, featuring five main stage performances and a number of concert opera performances. Sydney Mancasola, Duncan Rock, and Wallis Giunta headline the European premiere of Missy Mazzoli and Roy Vavrek’s “Breaking the Waves.” Stuart Stratford conducts Tom Morris’ new production. Performance Dates: August 21-24, 2019 Natalya Romaniw and Sinéad Campbell-Wallace alternate the title role in Puccini’s “Tosca” with {…}

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Corinne Winters, Sarah Connolly & Sean Panikkar Headline English National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2019-20 season featuring seven new productions and three revivals, the greatest number of new productions in five years. The season will also include four new productions that present the same story: the Orpheus myth will be seen in four operas spanning 230 years, interpreted by four directors from radically different theatrical disciplines, all within the {…}

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Lincoln Center’s American Songbook 2019 Review: Joyce DiDonato, “Songplay”

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On March 4, 2019, Joyce DiDonato’s Songplay tour brought her to Lincoln Center’s Appel Room for a night of opera classics and jazz standards. Joining her were the album’s collaborators, pianist and arranger Craig Terry, bassist Chuck Israels, drummer Jimmy Madison, with Lautaro Greco on the bandoneon, and Charlie Porter on the trumpet; these all-stars span a vast body of {…}

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Wagner, Donizetti, And Mozart Operas Headline Longborough Festival Opera 2019

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The Longborough Festival Opera has announced its 2019 slate. Everything kicks off with “Das Rheingold,” which will kick off the company’s four-year plan to mount the Ring. The production will feature Mark Stone, Darren Jeffery, Mark Le Brocq, Madeleine Shaw, and Simon Wilding among others. Amy Lane directors and Anthony Negus conducts. Performance Dates: June 5-11, 2019 Wagner’s epic will {…}

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Bryn Terfel, Michelle DeYoung & Mark S. Doss Headline Welsh National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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The Welsh National Opera has announced its 2019-20 season, which is set to include two new productions and three revivals. The season will run from Sept. 21, 2019 through May 9, 2020. WNO’s season begins with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen.” The autumn cast will star Virginie Verrez in the title role, Dimitri Pittas as Don José, Phillip Rhodes {…}

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Obituary: Legendary Bass Theo Adam Dies At 92

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Theo Adam has died at 92. According to the great bass’ agency, the family stated that Adam died on Jan. 11, 2019 in Dresden in his hometown. Born on August 1, 1926, Adam sang with the Dresdner Kreuzchor as a boy and went on to serve in the German Army in World War II. At the end of the war, {…}

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Apollo Theater to Host New Opera ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’

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Opera Philadelphia’s acclaimed production of “We Shalll Not be Moved” will make its New York premiere at the Apollo Theater next Friday, Oct. 6, after making its world premiere earlier this month at the O17 festival. This new chamber opera is a collaboration between Haitian-American composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, Haitian-American spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and director Bill T. Jones. {…}

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Téte à Téte Opera Festival Announces 2019 Season

Ann Petersen, Christopher Ventris & Michele Losier Highlight Royal Danish Opera’s 2019-2020 Season

Natalya Romaniw & Wallis Giunta Headline Scottish Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Corinne Winters, Sarah Connolly & Sean Panikkar Headline English National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Lincoln Center’s American Songbook 2019 Review: Joyce DiDonato, “Songplay”

Wagner, Donizetti, And Mozart Operas Headline Longborough Festival Opera 2019

Bryn Terfel, Michelle DeYoung & Mark S. Doss Headline Welsh National Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Obituary: Legendary Bass Theo Adam Dies At 92

Apollo Theater to Host New Opera ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’