The Tallis Scholars & The King’s Singers Headline the 2025 Buxton International Festival

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(Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning) The Buxton International Festival has unveiled its 2025 season. This article features opera and choral events only. A full cast list will be announced at a later date. Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” stars Gregory Feldmann in the title role. He is joined by Alastair Miles, Yewon Han, Richard Woodall, and Allison Cook, among others. Jack Furness directs {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

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(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) History has not been kind to Charles Villiers Stanford’s reputation as an opera composer. During his lifetime he wrote nine complete operas, which, apart from his comic opera “Seamus O’Brien,” was met with limited success. Today, they are rarely performed, and none have found their way into the mainstream repertoire. In 2019, the Wexford Festival Opera produced {…}

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Buxton International Festival Commission Four New Operas to Premiere in 2025

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The 2025 Buxton International Festival has announced “Shorts,” a collection of four new opera commissions. “Shorts” consists of four 20-minutes opera composed by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Jasper Dommett, Martin Green, Carmel Smickersgill and Yshani Perinpanayagam, with librettos by Zodwa Nyoni, Josh Overton and Jessica Walker. Directors include Marcus Desando and Rebecca Meltzer, with designer Elliott Squire and repetiteur Paul McKenzie. “Shorts” {…}

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Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: Le Convenienze Ed Inconvenienze Teatrali

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(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) At his best, Donizetti is a master of the comic opera, with works such as “Don Pasquale” and “L’Elisir d’Amore” still playing to packed houses almost 200 years after their premieres. Others, however, are less well-known; his 1831 one-act farce, “Le Convenienze ed Inconvenienze Teatrali,” being a case in point. Few people will have heard of it, {…}

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Cape Town Opera Presents ‘SHORTS: A Festival of Pocket Operas’

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(Image credit: Allegra Bernacchioni) Cape Town Opera has announced “SHORTS: A Festival of Pocket Operas” is set to take place at the Artscape Arena April 11-21. The series of concise operas is a celebration of operatic innovation and storytelling features the world premiere of Conrad Asman’s “Trial by Media,” Francis Poulenc’s “La voix humaine,” and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Impresario.” {…}

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Cape Town Opera Announces 2024 Season

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(Photo credit: Annène van Eeden) Cape Town Opera has released details of its 2024 season. One-off concert performances include “Puccini in the Park” at the Maynardville Open Air Festival, “Starlight Classics” at Vergelegen, and Mozart’s “Requiem” at the Paarl Toringkerk at Easter. All performances are in collaboration with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. Performance Dates: TBA In commemoration of the {…}

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Pinchgut Opera 2023 Review: Rinaldo

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(Photo: Cassandra Hannagan) The enthusiastic reaction of the audience on opening night for Pinchgut Opera’s latest production of Handel’s 1711 opera, “Rinaldo,” makes it easy to understand why this opera was so popular at the time of its premiere 312 years ago. It is also important to bear in mind how operatic productions back then would have boasted a lot {…}

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Opera Baltimore Adds Performances to 2023-24 Season

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Opera Baltimore has announced that it is adding a few performances for its productions of “Eugene Onegin” and “The Impresario.” The company made the announcement via social media noting that “Yup, it’s true! With our shows selling out, it makes us sad to have to put so many folks on our waiting list for tickets – so we are doing {…}

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Opera Card Game “Operaopoly”

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Independent game designer Stephen Schwartz combined his passion for game making and opera to create Operaopoly. Players begin by taking on the role of 19th-century opera patrons and can level up to sponsor of composers Bizet, Verdi, and Wagner, and finally to an impresario. Once at the impresario level, players take on the tasks of choosing opera houses, casting singers, {…}

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The Tallis Scholars & The King’s Singers Headline the 2025 Buxton International Festival

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

Buxton International Festival Commission Four New Operas to Premiere in 2025

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: Le Convenienze Ed Inconvenienze Teatrali

Cape Town Opera Presents ‘SHORTS: A Festival of Pocket Operas’

Cape Town Opera Announces 2024 Season

Pinchgut Opera 2023 Review: Rinaldo

Opera Baltimore Adds Performances to 2023-24 Season

Opera Card Game “Operaopoly”