Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble Announces New Gardens Concert Set for April 16, 2023

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Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble is set to resume its Garden Concerts on April 16, 2023. The showcase, which is set to take place at the Campos Community Gardens in New York City, will star soprano Jenny Ribeiro, soprano Ellen Teufel, and mezzo-soprano Heather Jones. Chris. Fecteau will perform at the piano in a program featuring music by Brahms, Händel, Grieg, and {…}

Special Features

Best of 2021: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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Over the past few weeks we have returned to an old end-of-year tradition, spotlighting some of our standout artists of the year. And we will conclude that series with a return to our spotlight of the year’s best performances. As in the past, we have compiled the efforts of different members of our staff to create a list of our {…}

Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist of the Week: Andres Acosta

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The Madison Opera is set to open its 2021-22 season with Donizetti’s masterpiece “Lucia di Lammermoor.” The opera is most famous for its soprano role and her corresponding mad scene. However, one cannot deny the prominence of the tenor role of Edgardo, especially considering that fact that it is this character that ends the work with a searing dramatic scene. {…}

Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist of the Week: Norman Garrett

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Every year the Bard Summerscape presents a rarely performed work that audiences and singers get to discover. The festival has presented works from Dvorak, Korngold, Moniuszko, Weber, and Mascagni to name a few. This year, the festival will present Chausson’s only opera “Le roi Arthus” with a cast of rising stars and veterans. Norman Garrett will take on the title {…}

News, Streaming

Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Christine Goerke, Maya Kherani, Norman Garrett Headline Top Operas to Stream This Week

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As the summer moves along, there seems to be a transitional phase taking place with newer streams becoming increasingly less frequent as opera companies gear up for a full return to live performances in the fall. But we’re still here with another series opera performance we think you should check out! So without further ado, here we go. Upload – {…}

News

Joyce DiDonato, Clay Hilley, Will Liverman, Topi Lehtipuu Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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We are reaching an interesting point in the summer for the opera world. Europe has essentially returned to “normalcy” as far as performances go. That also means an increasing lack of online content for operagoers from Europe’s biggest houses. Meanwhile, the rest of the opera world is in a transitional phase. With most companies preparing for digital starts to their {…}

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F. Paul Driscoll, Anthony Clark Evans & Elliot Madore Headline Promethean Live Series for Week of May 18

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The Promethean Live series has unveiled its class offerings for the week of May 18. It all kicks off on Monday, May 18 at 12 p.m. EDT with an Audition Aria Class led by Roberto Kalb, the Resident Conductor and Head of Music at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. This class will explore the Puccini aria “Che gelida manina” with {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Leon Botstein On The American Premiere Of ‘Das Wunder der Heliane’ & The Future Of Opera

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(Credit: Chris Kayden) The Bard Summerscape has been known for programming unknown works that are either rarely performed or have never been showcased in the United States. This year the festival dedicated its program to Korngold, one of the foremost composers of the 20th century. Continuing its tradition of performing one fully staged opera production, Bard is presenting the American {…}

IndieOpera

American Lyric Theater Announces Two Dramaturg Apprentices

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Hannah McDermott and Katherin Pitt have been selected as two Dramaturg Apprentices who will join the Composer-Librettist Development Program at the American Lyric Theater. McDermott recently received a Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford; she also has a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and has also performed in a number of operas throughout her student days. {…}

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