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Grange Park Opera to World Premiere Rediscovered Opera by Sir John Tavener

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Grange Park Opera has recently discovered a previously unperformed work by composer Sir John Tavener and is set to provide it with its world premiere in 2024. Tavener is one of the most acclaimed British composers of the post-war era and his final opera, “Krishna” has now been uncovered after 14 years in manuscript form. The company will undertake the {…}
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Grange Park Opera, Glyndebourne Festival & Other Summer Festivals in Doubt

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COVID-19 is set to affect summer festivals this year. With the majority of companies having canceled the final portion of their 2019-20 season, most expectations were on summer festivals and artists returning to the stage. However, those hopes seem to be dwindling for some festivals. Today, March 17, 2020, the Grange Opera Park in the U.K. announced the festival was {…}
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Grange Festival Announces 2020 Season, Including Community Opera

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The Grange Festival has announced its 2020 season which will feature a number of major operas and even its first fully-stage community opera. The season kicks off with a production of “La Cenerentola” by director Stephen Barlow and conductor David Parry. Josè Maria Lo Monaco takes on the lead role with Nico Darmanin as the prince. Performance Dates: June 5-July 2, 2020 {…}
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OperaVision Preview 2019: Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ From The Grange Festival

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OperaVision will present a live stream of Handel’s “Agrippina” from The Grange Festival on June 6, 2019. The stream kicks off at 7 p.m. local time. That’s around 1 p.m. EDT and 10 a.m. PST for the start time. It will be available for repeat viewings on Opera Vision until Dec. 12, 2019. The opera features Ashley Riches, Anna Bonitatibus, {…}
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Grange Park Opera Announces Its 2020 Festival

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The Grange Park Opera has announced the 2020 Festival. The season will open with a world premiere of Anthony Bolton and librettist Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko.” The new opera will be based on the true story of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 and died in 2006. The cast will include {…}
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Bilbao Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Tristan und Isolde’

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Bilbao Opera has announced a cast change for its opening “Tristan und Isolde” performance on Jan. 18, 2025. The company said that Rachel Nicholls will sing the role of Isolde replacing the originally scheduled Oksana Dyka. Nicholls has performed Isolde to great success at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Teatro Regio di Torino, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the {…}
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Samantha Clarke & Lorina Gore to Headline Opera Australia’s ‘La Traviata’

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Opera Australia is set to present “La Traviata” in Sarah Giles’ luscious production. The opera, which will be presented between Jan. 23 and March 27, 2025, at the Sydney Opera House, will star Australian sopranos Samantha Clarke and Lorina Gore as Violetta. They will be joined by Korean tenor Ji-Min Park and Australian Iain Henderson as Alfredo and baritones José Carbó {…}
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Ellen Pearson Wins 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year Competition

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(Photo credit: Lara Johnson-Perkins) Mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson has won first prize in the 2024 Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year Competition. Pearson took home the Nigel Beale Grange Festival First Prize as well as the Anthony Lowrey Audience Prize. Coming in second place was baritone Stephen Whitford. The baritone also received the Wendy Blamire Award for outstanding linguistic and {…}

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