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René Barbera, Austrine Stundyte, Tomasz Konieczny & Issachah Savage Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera René Barbera, Roman Burdenko, Aigul Khismatullina, Alexander Köpeczi, and Maya Gour Star in a revival of Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” Yi-Chen Lin conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-29, 2024 Britten’s “Peter Grimes” will get a new production by Barbora Horáková. Lorenzo Viotti conducts a cast that includes Issachah Savage, Johanni van Oostrum, and {…}
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Opéra National de Paris to Present ‘Street Scenes’

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The Opéra National de Paris has announced that it will present Fragments from Weill’s “Street Scenes” at the MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis Bobigny. The production, which opens on April 19 and runs through the 27, will be directed by Ted Huffman and conducted by Yshaani Perinpanayagem. Audiences will hear artists in residence at the Academie alongside {…}
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Académie Opéra National de Paris Announces 2023-24 Season

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The Académie Opéra National de Paris has unveiled its 2023-24 season. There will be an opening concert featuring artists in residence of the Académie. Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2023 There will be a Brahms concert featuring Lied from the famed composer. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2023 Next up is a double bill of the ballet “Ma Mère L’Oye” and the opera {…}
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Pittsburgh Opera to Present Two Modern Operas This May

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Pittsburgh Opera is set to present two modern operas this May. The company will kick things off with “Denis & Katya” starting on May 6, 2023. The production, which will run through May 14 at the Bitz Opera Factory, will feature Jazmine Olwalia and Brandon Bell in the title roles with Haley Stamats directing Ted Huffman’s original production. The opera {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Flórez, Regula Mühlemann & Rolando Villazón Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2023-24 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights of the season. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Orchestre de Paris with soloists Bertrand Chamayou, Olga Peretyatko, Pavel Petrov, Alexey Markov, and Bertrand Mandico. The program includes music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Sept. 6 & 7, 2023 Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in {…}
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Theater St. Gallen Set to Premiere ‘The Time of Our Singing’

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The Theater St. Gallen is set to present Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s “The Time of Our Singing.” The opera, which will premiere on March 11, 2023, is set to run through April 23, 2023, for a total of six performances. It will star Claron McFadden, Mark S. Doss, Kristján Jóhannesson, Joshua Stewart, Naomi Simmonds, Markel Reed, Jennifer Panara, {…}
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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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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: L’Incoronazione di Poppea

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(Photo: Ruth Walz) It never ceases to surprise how Monteverdi’s operas prove themselves time and again to be not just supreme examples of how the art form succeeds as a dramatic medium, able to communicate directly with present day audiences, with characters who resonate so clearly with the modern mind, even over a distance of 400 years, but also the {…}

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