Christian Gerhaher, Rachel Harnisch, Ramón Vargas & Marina Viotti Highlight Stadtcasino Basel 2020-21 Season

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(Credits: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony / Rachel Harnisch official website / LA Opera official website / Deutsche Oper am Rhein official website) Stadtcasino Basel has announced its 2020-21 season. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on the vocal works. Here is the full rundown. Baritone Christian Gerhaher will perform works by Schoeck, Moser, and Schubert. Heinz Holliger conducts {…}

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Olga Peretyatko, Rolando Villazón & Thomas Hampson Highlight Pierre Boulez Saal’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Jiyang Chen/Rabovsky) The Pierre Boulez Saal has announced its 2020-21 Season. The German hall will present some of the greatest soloists in the world, including numerous great vocalists. For the purposes of this article, vocal performances will be highlighted. Olga Peretyatko and pianist Elena Bashkirova perform a recital of Russian music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Date: Sept. {…}

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Leonardo Capalbo, Joyce El-Khoury & Massimo Giordano Lead Opéra national du Rhin’s 2020-21 Season.

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The Opéra national du Rhin has announced its 2020-21 season. The company, in Strasbourg, France, is set to include a number of new productions and recitals. Here is a look: Opera “Solveig,” a symphonic Passion based on the music of Edvard Grieg and with a libretto by Karl Ove Knausgård gets a new production by Calixto Bieto. Mari Eriksmoen stars in {…}

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Carmela Remigio, Florian Boesch, & Günther Groissböck Highlight Theater an der Wien’s 2020-21 Season

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The Theater an der Wien has announced its 2020-21 season featuring 13 new productions, chamber opera, and opera in concert. Productions The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Zazà” starring Svetlana Aksenova in the title role, Nikolai Schukoff, Christopher Maltman, Dorothea Herbert, and Enkelejda Shkosa. Stefan Soltész conducts the new production by Christof Loy. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-27, 2020 Wayne Marshall conducts {…}

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Teatro Real To Continue Performances Without Audience

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The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced that it will continue to perform without audiences. The Theater announced that following the government’s regulation to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the company will showcase the new production of “Achille in Sciro” via the company platform “My Opera Player.” All performances from March 17 through the 25 will be performed via {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Max Emanuel Cencic & Franco Fagioli Lead Bayreuth Baroque 2020

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Bayreuth Baroque has announced its 2020 program, which will focus mainly on the works from the period of the late Baroque that have never or hardly been performed. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on vocal works. The new production of Drama Per Musica “Carlo il Calvo” by Nicola Antonio Porpora will feature Julia Lezhneva, Max {…}

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Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Magdalena Kožená Headline 2020 Aix-en-Provence Festival

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(Credit: Sasha Vasiljev / Mathias Bothor, Deutsche Grammophon) The Festival Aix-en-Provence has just announced the program for 2020 season, which will include a total of six works. The season will open with Berg’s opera “Wozzeck,” starring Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Daniel Brenna, Peter Hoare, Brindley Sherratt, Evan LeRoy Johnson, J’Nai Bridges, Alexander Kiechle, Tomasz Kumięga, and Graham Clark. Sir Simon {…}

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CD / DVD Releases – Week of Sept. 9

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As the holiday season approaches, a number of new releases will be available this week. Last week we saw the releases of new albums by Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, and the world premiere recording of Anton Rubenstein’s “Moses” and this week’s offerings include an homage to Dmitri Hvorostovsky, a new release for Jonas Kaufmann, a new collaboration between two major {…}

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Theater an der Wien 2017-18 Review – Saul: Claus Guth’s Interpretation Is More Pasolini Than Prophet

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When a lyricist describes his composer’s head as “full of maggots”, the chances of a harmonious collaborative outcome would seem slim. For Charles Jennens, the aesthete aristocratic librettist of Handel’s oratorio “Saul,” such a jeremiad was not a solitary instance. The principal object of Jennens’ ire was Handel’s highly original orchestration, especially the invention of a tinkling bell-like keyboard called a “Carillon” {…}

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Christian Gerhaher, Rachel Harnisch, Ramón Vargas & Marina Viotti Highlight Stadtcasino Basel 2020-21 Season

Olga Peretyatko, Rolando Villazón & Thomas Hampson Highlight Pierre Boulez Saal’s 2020-21 Season

Leonardo Capalbo, Joyce El-Khoury & Massimo Giordano Lead Opéra national du Rhin’s 2020-21 Season.

Carmela Remigio, Florian Boesch, & Günther Groissböck Highlight Theater an der Wien’s 2020-21 Season

Teatro Real To Continue Performances Without Audience

Joyce DiDonato, Max Emanuel Cencic & Franco Fagioli Lead Bayreuth Baroque 2020

Christian Gerhaher, Anja Kampe, Magdalena Kožená Headline 2020 Aix-en-Provence Festival

CD / DVD Releases – Week of Sept. 9

Theater an der Wien 2017-18 Review – Saul: Claus Guth’s Interpretation Is More Pasolini Than Prophet