Sondra Radvanovsky, Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann Headline Baden-Baden Festival’s 2019-20 Season

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The Baden-Baden Festival has announced its 2019-20 season with a number of great performers and concerts. For this article, we have only concentrated on vocal and opera events. here is a look. Fall Festival John Neumeier directs Gluck’s “Orfeo et Eurydice” with Alessandro de Marchi conducting. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-19, 2019 Dorothee Mields sings a program centered on Der Orpheus-Mythos {…}

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Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson, Matthias Goerne Among Stars of Verbier Festival 2019

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The Verbier Festival has announced the programming for its 26th edition. While there are undeniably a plethora of incredible performances of all kinds to be found throughout the many weeks of this famed festival, the aim of this article will be to focus mainly on vocal and operatic performances. Baritone Thomas Quasthoff will appear alongside guitarist Wolfgang Meyer and Trombonist {…}

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Lisette Oropesa, Sabine Devielhe & Dorothea Röschmann Headline L’Orchestre de Paris’ 2019-20 Season

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L’Orchestre de Paris has announced its 2019-20 season! For the purposes of this article, we will focus primarily on vocal performances. The season will kick off with a concert led by Karina Canellakis, newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Dorothea Röschmann will be featured vocally, performing alongside the orchestra and chorus. The program is set to include {…}

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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (3/1-3)

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It’s a weekend filled with rarely performed works and many singers in role debut runs. It’s also a weekend with new productions and important revivals. Here is a look at what we think you should see. Werther – Opera Australia, Australia Michael Fabiano stars in the title role of Massenet’s masterpiece, continuing the run of his role debut. He is {…}

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Artist Profile: Galina Gorchakova, A Famed Russian Soprano

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Galina Gorchakova was one of the Russian sopranos to dominate during the 1990s. Born in Novokuznetsk on March 1, 1961, to opera singers, her family moved to Novosibirsk, Siberia where she did all of her major training. She would become a leading soprano in Sverdlovsk and then went on to audition for Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre. In 1991, {…}

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Met Opera 2019-2020 Season: Here Is All The Information For This Season’s Live in HD Performances

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The Metropolitan Opera revealed its 2019-20 season on Wednesday afternoon. Among the major announcements were the company’s schedule for its ever-popular Live in HD slate. Here is a look at the list of performances that will be broadcast to audiences around the world. Worthy of note is that of the 10 productions set to screen in cinemas, three will be {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato Headline The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2019-20 season with five new productions, a New Year’s Eve gala, and a recital. Here is a look at what to expect. New Productions The season opens with Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” in a new production by James Robinson. The production stars Eric Owens and Kevin Short sharing the title role of Porgy and {…}

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Opera Profile: Mussorgsky’s ‘Khovanshchina’

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Modest Mussorgsky is best-known for the opera “Boris Godunov,” but he also created “Khovanshchina,” which had its world premiere on Feb. 9, 1886. The opera was written between 1872 and 1880 and upon his death in 1881, Mussorgsky left it unfinished. Rimsky-Korsakov completed, revised, and scored the work, though in years later other composers, such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky {…}

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Jose Carreras, Juan Pons, & Jaume Aragall To Honor Montserrat Caballé In Barcelona

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Jose Carreras, Juan Pons, and Jaume Aragall are set to honor Montserrat Caballé in a gala at the Gran Teatre del Liceu entitled “La sonrisa de Montserrat Caballé.” The homage to the great late Spanish soprano will be on April 12, the soprano’s birthday and it set to be presented on TV3 y Catalunya Radio. In addition to Carreras, Pons, {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann Headline Baden-Baden Festival’s 2019-20 Season

Karita Mattila, Thomas Hampson, Matthias Goerne Among Stars of Verbier Festival 2019

Lisette Oropesa, Sabine Devielhe & Dorothea Röschmann Headline L’Orchestre de Paris’ 2019-20 Season

Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (3/1-3)

Artist Profile: Galina Gorchakova, A Famed Russian Soprano

Met Opera 2019-2020 Season: Here Is All The Information For This Season’s Live in HD Performances

Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato Headline The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Opera Profile: Mussorgsky’s ‘Khovanshchina’

Jose Carreras, Juan Pons, & Jaume Aragall To Honor Montserrat Caballé In Barcelona