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Rihab Chaieb Joins Intermusica for General Management

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(Credit: © Gaetz Photography) Tunisian-Canadian mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb has joined the roster of Intermusica for general management. Chaieb recently received acclaim for the title role of “Carmen” and this season is set to return to LA Opera as Dorabella in Mozart “Così fan tutte,” the Metropolitan Opera as Maddalena in Verdi “Rigoletto,” the Canadian Opera Company as Fenena in Verdi “Nabucco,” {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2024 Review: The 15th Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition

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  (Photo credit: © Wibmer) The Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition is a major annual highlight in the world of baroque opera that takes place at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, featuring young baroque singers from all over the world. This year’s competition was full of exciting and inspiring moments that OperaWire had the honor of experiencing live. The audience {…}

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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Galileo Galilei

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(Photo Credit: Eric Woolsey) Opera Theatre Saint Louis cultivates a justly deserved reputation for promoting contemporary works, having world-premiered 40-some operas in the company’s five decades, and staging many other operas born after WWII but perhaps not new enough to be labeled “contemporary” in 2024. The American legend, Philip Glass, made one prior appearance at the company—in person then, too—with {…}

Special Features

The New Face Of Opera in ‘The Traction Project’

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(Photo credit: François Matarasso) When you think of opera, one imagines a beautifully finished product, usually disconnected from the labor involved in its creation. But what would happen if the labor to produce opera was just as foregrounded as the result of that labor? This question has been taken up in many forms over the last six to seven decades.  {…}

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Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City 2024 Review: Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducts Haydn & Ginastera

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(Photo credit: Tuesday night at Lincoln Center offered some true gems, an enticing evening even for seasoned New Yorkers. All the more delightful, as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City, tickets for the show were “choose-what-you-pay”, making it accessible to a wider, more relaxed summer crowd in the Wu Tsai Theater of David Geffen Hall.  It’s a welcome {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: The Hours

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(Photos: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera presented the tenth performance of composer Kevin Puts’s “The Hours,” with libretto by Greg Pierce, on Friday, May 10th 2024.  In November 2022, OperaWire reviewed “The Hours” debut with great attention towards how the opera came to the Met, including Kevin Puts’s score, Greg Pierce’s libretto, and the undeniable beauty of the {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: El Niño

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(Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) Metropolitan Opera debuted John Adams’s “El Niño,” with libretto based on original sources by Peter Sellars and John Adams, to a sold out house of past, present, and future opera goers on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. “El Niño” is unlike anything John Adams has done before and the historical timing of this debut is {…}

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Gerda Lissner Foundation Announces ‘An Evening of Lieder / Song, Opera, Operetta, and Zarzuela’

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The Gerda Lissner Foundation is set to present a free concert at Carnegie Hall. The showcase, scheduled for May 2, 2024, is entitled “An Evening of Lieder / Song, Opera, Operetta, and Zarzuela.” It kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and will feature the top winners from the 2024 International Vocal Competition and the 2023 {…}

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The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Photo credit: Raftermen “Toi toi toi, y’all,” intones the attractive, Southern-inflected t-shirt at The Atlanta Opera’s pop-up gift shop. An apt tagline for a company having outgrown regional status, still honoring its roots in this de facto capital of the American South. Like Atlanta—now the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the United States, having recently edged past Philadelphia and {…}