Mezzo-Soprano Alice Coote Joins Talent Agency Intermusica

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Talent agency Intermusica has announced that mezzo-soprano Alice Coote will join its roster. Nicholas Moloney, Senior Artist Manager for Vocal and Opera will manage Coote. Coote is set to appear with such organizations as the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra at the BBC Proms, Salzburg, Berliner Festspiele, Festival Berlioz, and Opéra Royal (Château de Versailles). Next season she will perform at {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Lisette Oropesa & Anita Rachvelishvili Lead Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s 2023 Season

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Today, Pierre Audi announced the program for the seventieth-fifth Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The festival will take place between the 4 th and 24th of July, 2023, staging six works, three operas in concert, and many recitals. The full program is below: The season opens with “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Elisabeth Hauptmann. Maxime Pascal conducts the production {…}

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Opera Profile: Péter Eötvös’ ‘Senza Sangue’

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(Image Source: Official Website) With a modest cast of only two, and composed as a modern compliment to Bela Bartok’s expressionist opera “Bluebeard’s Castle”, composed in 1918 and reading as a complex, minor-second analogy of Bartok’s inner turmoil at the time, Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös’ 12th one-act opera “Senza sangue” is a pearl of the new operatic epoch, a testament {…}

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Canadian Opera Company to Present ‘The Magic Flute’

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To celebrate its 70-year anniversary, the Canadian Opera Company is set to present Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” this May. The opera will be performed at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts and feature Canadian director Anna Theodosakis leading the revival of the audience favorite. “I’m excited to welcome families and opera lovers back with this timeless fairytale,” said Theodosakis {…}

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Anja Harteros, Saioa Hernández, Rolando Villazón & Nina Stemme Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2022-23 Season

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2022-23 season featuring seven new productions. Premieres R.Strauss’ “Arabella” will be conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles in a new production by Tobias Kratzer. Albert Pesendorfer, Doris Soffel, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Elena Tsallagova, and Russell Braun. Performance Dates: March 18-April 6, 2023 Arne Gieshoff and Franziska Angerer’s “Bear” will have its world premiere. Performance Dates: {…}

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Opéra National de Paris to Present Benefit Concert for Ukraine

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The Opéra National de Paris is set to present a concert in support of Ukraine on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at the Palais Garnier. All proceeds from the event will be used to support victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The showcase will feature Liudmyla Monastyrska, John Daszak, Russell Braun, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, and Emanuela Pascu. Carlo Rizzi will conduct {…}

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Opéra National de Paris to Present ‘A Quiet Place’

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(Credit: Vincent Pontet) The Opéra National de Paris is set to present historic premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place” starting on March 9, 2022. This series of performances represents the first time that the work is brought to the stage in France. The opera, which will be presented at the Palais Garnier, will be directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and {…}

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Canadian Opera Company Summarizes 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Canadian Opera Company official website) The Canadian Opera Company held an Annual General Meeting where it summarized the number of developments within the company in the last season. “Conscientious decision-making with an eye to the wider fiscal picture not only enabled us to successfully weather a full season without live opera, it has also placed us in an excellent {…}

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Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Natalie Dessay Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 69th Week of Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 69th straight week of streams. Per a press release, this week’s streams, which will be dedicated to the operas of Richard Strauss, will include several first-time broadcasts. Here is a breakdown of the schedule. Week 69 – Strauss Week Monday, July 5 – Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” Starring Kiri Te Kanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Derek Hammond-Stroud, and Kurt {…}

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Mezzo-Soprano Alice Coote Joins Talent Agency Intermusica

Jonas Kaufmann, Lisette Oropesa & Anita Rachvelishvili Lead Festival d’Aix-en-Provence’s 2023 Season

Opera Profile: Péter Eötvös’ ‘Senza Sangue’

Canadian Opera Company to Present ‘The Magic Flute’

Anja Harteros, Saioa Hernández, Rolando Villazón & Nina Stemme Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2022-23 Season

Opéra National de Paris to Present Benefit Concert for Ukraine

Opéra National de Paris to Present ‘A Quiet Place’

Canadian Opera Company Summarizes 2020-21 Season

Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Natalie Dessay Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 69th Week of Nightly Streams