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Karen Chia-ling Ho, Olga Kulchynska, Mattia Olivieri, Lucia Lucas & Iestyn Davies Lead Santa Fe Opera’s 2026 Season

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The Santa Fe Opera has announced its 2026 season. Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will open the season with a revival production directed by Melanie Bacaling. The cast will include Karen Chia-ling Ho, Stephen Costello, Jonathan Burton, Jarrett Ott, and Sun-Ly Pierce. John Fiore conducts. Performance Dates: July 3-29, 2026 Harry Bicket conducts Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a production by Christopher Luscombe. Josh Lovell, Joélle Harvey, Rainelle {…}

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Germán Enrique Alcántara, Julieth Lozano, Soraya Mafi, & Robert Lewis Star in Opera Rara’s 55th Season

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Opera Rara announces its 55th season. Concerts The Salon Series recital co-presented with Temple Music Foundation features baritone Germán Enrique Alcántara and pianist Anna Tilbrook. Performance Date: October 10, 2025  The final, 1921 version of Puccini’s “La rondine” features Ermonela Jaho, Iván Ayón-Rivas, Nicola Alaimo, Ellie Neate, Juan Francisco Gatell, Jessica Robinson, Julieth Lozano, Joanna Harries, Robert Lewis, and William {…}

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CD Review: Opera Rara’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’

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“Simon Boccanegra” – in its standard 1881 revision – is an undisputed, though infrequently performed, masterpiece. But what of its very first iteration from 1857? Its premiere, at Venice’s La Fenice, famously turned into a fiasco. Julian Budden, for example, admitted to the hostility with which the libretto was received, while Verdi himself, in a letter to Giraldoni, wryly picked {…}

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Ailyn Pérez, Adela Zaharia, Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Camilla Nylund Headline Semperoper Dresden’s 2025-26 Season

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Semperoper Dresden has unveiled its 2025-26 season. New Productions It opens with Verdi’s “Falstaff,” conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Damiano Michieletto with a cast starring Nicola Alaimo, Lodovico Ravizza, Yijie Shi, Eleonora Buratto, Rosalia Cid, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, and Nicole Chirka, among others. Performance Dates: Oct. 5 – Oct. 24, 2025 Next up is Hans Abrahamsen’s “The Snow Queen.” {…}

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Operalia Competition Announces 2024 Participants

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The Operalia Competition has announced the 2024 participants. The competition will showcase singers from the USA, China, UK, India, Cuba, Italy, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Australia, Belarus, South Korea, Uzbekistan, India, Sweden, Poland, and Azerbaijan. Here is the list of singers: Nurgalym Amanbay, tenor, Kazakhstan Eliza Boom, soprano, New Zealand Le Bu, bass-baritone, China Vladislav Chizhov, baritone, Russia Monica {…}

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Opera Rara Announces Cast Change for ‘Simon Boccanegra’

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Opera Rara has announced a cast change for its concert performance of “Simon Boccanegra.” The company said, “We’re sorry to not be able to work with Nicola Alaimo again this year as he’s had to withdraw from ‘Simon Boccanegra’ due to illness. We wish Nicola a very speedy recovery! We’re happy to announce that our Simon will now be Germán {…}

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Benjamin Bernheim, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier & Asmik Grigorian Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2024-25 Season

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The Opéra de Paris has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Verdi’s “Falstaff” opens the season with a cast that includes Ambrogio Maestri, Olivia Boen, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Andrei Kymach, Gregory Bonfatti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Iván Ayón-Rivas, and Federica Guida. Michael Schønwandt conducts the production by Dominique Pitoiset. Performance Dates: Sept. 10-30, 2024 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will star Eleonora Buratto, Elena Stikhina, Aude {…}