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Here are Your Ivors Composer Awards Nominees 2020

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The Ivors Academy has announced its nominees for The Ivors Composer Awards 2020. While there are nominees across several categories, including Chamber Orchestral and Jazz, for the purposes of this article, our sole focus will be on vocal and operatic nominees. In the Choral category, nominees include “Bogoroditse Devo, Raduysia” by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, “Earth Song” by Rachel Portman,” “I Sing {…}

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Ian Bostridge, Carolyn Sampson, & Sarah Connolly Headline Oxford Lieder Festival 2020

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(Credit: Marco Borggreve Simon Canetty) The Oxford Lieder Festival is set to present a program of over 40 events streamed over the course of eight days, running from October 10 – 17, 2020. Titled, “Connections Across Time: A Brief History of Song,” the festival will also include live study events, masterclasses, pre-recorded talks and interviews, listening notes, curated playlists, and {…}

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Missy Mazzoli, Frederica Von Stade Headline Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Digital Festival O’

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Opera Philadelphia has launched the “Digital Festival O.” which will stream five major productions from the company’s past. “The unprecedented social distancing necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic has galvanized the performing arts community, sparking generous artist relief funds and online expressions of creativity as we all navigate this challenging time in our history. Digital Festival O, which premieres when we {…}

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Rolando Villazón, René Pape, Anja Harteros Highlight Semperoper Dresden’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Jiyang Chen / Marco Borggreve) The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2020-21 season featuring seven new operatic productions and a number of revivals. Here is a look at the operatic productions. Premieres The first new production of the season will be Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell,” written by de Jouy and Bis. The new production by Georg Schmiedleitner will star Christoph {…}

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Deutsche Oper Am Rhein & Teatro Real Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced the nominees for its 2020 Awards. The annual event, which celebrates achievement in opera around the globe over the 2019 calendar year, recognizes excellence in a wide range of categories that cover performance, design and direction, as well as education and outreach. This year, two opera companies topped the 2020 nominees with three a {…}

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‘Denis & Katya’ Set for European Premiere This February / March

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(Credit: Dominic M. Mercier for Opera Philadelphia) Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s “Denis & Katya” is set to have it European premiere on Feb. 27, 2020 and will tour all throughout the United Kingdom until March 27, 2020. The series of performances kick off in Newport Wales where the work will have its UK Premiere, followed by performances in Mold {…}

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Opera Philadelphia To Open 2019 Festival With ‘Denis & Katya’

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O19, the third edition of Opera Philadelphia’s annual season-opening festival, is set to launch on Sept. 18 with the world premiere of “Denis & Katya” at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. The new work, which was a nominee for the Fedora Generali Prize for Opera, is a chamber opera by composer Philip Venables and librettist-director Ted Huffman, the duo behind the {…}

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Opera Philadelphia To Launch Festival O19 With ‘Denis & Katya’

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(Credit: Dominic M. Mercier) Opera Philadelphia will kick off its O19 Festival with the world premiere of Venables and Huffman’s opera “Denis & Katya.” The opera, co-commissioned and co-produced with Music Theatre Wales and Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, was inspired by the “true story of two 15-year-old runaways who became social media sensations when they live streamed an armed stand-off {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Klaus-Florian Vogt & Emily Magee Headline Semperoper Dresden’s 2019-20 Season

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced its slate for 2019-20, which will include seven new productions to go along with 23 revivals. New Productions  Rossini’s “Il Viaggio a Reims” is directed by Laura Scozzi with a cast that includes Elena Gorshunova, Maria Kataeva, Tuuli Takala, Iulia Maria Dan, Taylor Stayton, Edgardo Rocha, Georg Zeppenfeld, Maurizio Muraro, Martin-Jan Nijhof, Christoph Pohl, Tilmann {…}