Saioa Hernández, Gregory Kunde & Joyce El-Khoury Headline Seattle Opera’s 2020-21 Season

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The Seattle Opera has announces its 2020-21 season featuring an all-star lineup and some ambitious productions. Here is a look: The season opens with the double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci” with Gregory Kunde headlining both productions in a rare U.S. appearance. He will share the run with Arsen Soghomonyan. Melody Moore and Marcy Stonikas will share the role {…}

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Q & A: Alek Shrader and Daniela Mack on Living Opera Careers Together

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Tenor Alek Shrader and mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack have enormous operatic careers and have sung all over the world both individually and together. The couple has joined forces in such operas as “La Cenerentola” and Handel’s “Partenope” and this summer they will be reunited in Handel’s “Alcina” at Santa Fe Opera. I had the chance to speak with them on my {…}

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Brno National Theater 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo Brno: Marek Olbryzmek) Britten’s “Peter Grimes” is a director’s dream. Who is Grimes? It is certain he is a loner; an outsider and a social misfit open to fits of temper. Yet there is also a sensitive side to his nature that comes out intermittently throughout the opera, notably in his aria “Now the Great Bear and the Pleiades” {…}

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English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo: ENO’s Peter Grimes 2023 © Tom Bowles) David Alden’s “Peter Grimes” begins with the curtain up. Upstage the people of the Borough mill about restlessly, occasionally breaking into shouts of anger and impatience. Alden’s 2009 production, on its second revival, breaks with any wistful or bucolic notions about the seaside community of the Borough, who drive the equally unrelenting {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) (This review is for the performance on Oct. 26, 2022) The last time the Met Opera presented “Peter Grimes” was in 2008. The world has certainly changed quite a bit in that time and somehow, that timeless work’s themes seem all the more relevant than ever before. The opera opens on the trial of {…}

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Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Credit: ROH 2022 (c) Yasuko Kageyam) Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” an opera of community disaster, has lately belonged in London to Edward Gardner in the pit and Stuart Skelton in the title role, both searingly brilliant. Deborah Warner’s new production, headed by tenor Allan Clayton, offers a vivid and contemporary alternative vision of the work that deserves to run and {…}

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Marlis Petersen, Ali McGregor & Vida Miknevičiūtė Lead Victorian Opera’s 2020 Season

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Victorian Opera has announced its 2020 season. A new production of Richard Strauss’ “Salome,” directed by Cameron Menzies, will be staged at Palais Theatre, St. Kilda. The cast will include soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė, tenor Ian Storey, contralto Liane Keegan, bass-baritone Daniel Sumegi, and tenor James Egglestone. Artistic Director Richard Mills will conduct Orchestra Victoria. “‘Salome’ offers a theatrical experience which {…}

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Obituary: Robert Orth Passes Away At 72

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Baritone Robert Orth passed away at the age of 72 on July 12, 2019 in Libertyville, IL. Orth found joy in singing from a young age, participating in church and school choirs. Prior to pursuing a full-time singing career for himself in 1974, he taught music at public schools in his hometown of Chicago. Orth prided himself in being “the best baritone {…}

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Saioa Hernández, Gregory Kunde & Joyce El-Khoury Headline Seattle Opera’s 2020-21 Season

Q & A: Alek Shrader and Daniela Mack on Living Opera Careers Together

Brno National Theater 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

English National Opera 2023-24 Review: Peter Grimes

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Peter Grimes

Marlis Petersen, Ali McGregor & Vida Miknevičiūtė Lead Victorian Opera’s 2020 Season

Obituary: Robert Orth Passes Away At 72