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Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2024-25 Review: La Traviata

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(Photo credit: Klara Beck) After its premiere in Dijon, in collaboration with the Orchestre National du Rhin, Verdi’s “La Traviata” arrives in Strasbourg. If the Burgundian production was disappointing, in terms of staging, performers and conducting, the Alsatian revival is far more successful. Admittedly, many of the elements of German director Amélie Niermeyer‘s Dijon production remain, such as the parties {…}
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Teatro Alla Scala Previews 2025-26 Season, Starring Sara Jakubiak, Anna Netrebko, Roberto Alagna & Luca Salsi

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The Teatro alla Scala has advanced plans for the Teatro alla Scala’s 2025-26 season. The season will open with Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” directed by Vasily Barkhatov and Sara Jakubiak. Riccardo Chailly will conduct. In February 2026, the company will give the entire “Ring Cycle” with Simone Young and Alexander Soddy. In April, the company will revive “Turandot” in {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Volle, Anja Kampe, Serena Sáenz, Lisette Oropesa & Ludovic Tézier Lead Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s 2025-26 Season

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The Staatsoper Berlin has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Premieres Bertrand de Billy conducts Lydia Steier’s new production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The cast includes Pene Pati, Nina Minasyan, Julia Kleiter, Clara Nadeshdin, Roberto Tagliavini, and Ema Nikolovska. A second cast will include Benjamin Bernheim, Regina Koncz, Siobhan Stagg, Clara Nadeshdin, Alex Esposito, and Samantha Hankey. Pierre Dumoussaud conducts. Performance {…}
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Teatro Alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Die Walküre

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(Credits: Brescia e Amisano) ‘The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein – a Means of expression (Music) has been made the objective, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.’ – Richard Wagner “Opera and Drama” (1851)   Words and Tones, A Drama Must Make Wagner is difficult, though he attempted, through a lifetime {…}
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Sjaella to Headline Boyd Music Series 2025

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(Photo credit: Lara Müller) A cappella group Sjaella will headline a performance at the Boyd Music Series 2025. The series is the result of a partnership between Bundanon and the Sydney Opera House, curated by Utzon Music Series Curator Genevieve Lacey. Sjaella features the voices of six women, including Viola Blache, Marie Fenske, Franziska eberhardt, Marie Charlotte Siedel, Luisa Klose, {…}
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Staatsoper Berlin Announces Conductor Change for ‘Elektra’

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(Credit: Gerard Collet) The Staatsoper Berlin has announced a conductor change for its production of “Elektra.” The company said that Alexander Soddy will conduct performances on Jan. 26 and 29, 2025 replacing Simone Young, who was originally set to conduct the entire run. She continues scheduled for the last three performances on Feb. 7, 10, and 14, 2025. Soddy has {…}
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Obituary: Vienna Boys Choirmaster Oliver Steich Dies

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Vienna Boys Choirmaster Oliver Stech has died. Steich became the choirmaster in 2011 and led the choir in numerous concerts, and on tours of Europe, Asia, South America, and the US. Born in Waid­hofen/Ybbs, Lower Austria, he began studying the piano and singing and later went on to study romance languages at the University of Vienna and piano, voice, conducting, {…}
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Sydney Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 Review: Die Walküre

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Image courtesy of Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Photo by Jay Patel. With “Die Walküre,” the second opera of Richard Wagner’s four-opera “Ring” cycle, the epic plot comes down to the human level, having begun in the first opera, “Das Rheingold,” in the realm of gods (albeit flawed), Rhinemaidens, giants, and other immortals. This November 15 and 17’s performances of “Die Walküre” in {…}
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Pinchgut Opera 2024-25 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: BrettBoardman) Undoubtedly, Sydney is coming of age as a culturally vibrant city, with thought-provoking, often superior productions of concerts, musicals, plays and operas. This long-awaited but most welcomed process is well illustrated by two excellent opera performances within less than a week that would be hailed anywhere in the world: a few days after Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” had {…}

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