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Rolando Villazón, Bruno de Sá, Véronique Gens, Valer Sabadus, Julia Lezhneva Headline Bayreuth Baroque’s 2023 Season

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Bayreuth Baroque has announced its 2023 festival slate. The company announced that it will kick off with Händel’s “Flavio, Re de’ Longobardi.” The opera will be directed by Max Emanuel Cencic and conducted by Benjamin Bayl. It will star Max Emanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva, Sreten Manojlovic, Rémy Brès-Feullet, Sonka Runje, and Yuriy Mynenko. Performance Dates: Sept. 7 – 17, 2023 {…}
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Diana Damrau, Michael Spyres & Véronique Gens Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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With the year coming to an end, we bring you the last releases of 2022. Audiences will get a chance to hear a monodrama, a Christmas album, a solo album and rarities. Eternal Heaven Long-time musical partners Lea Desandre and Iestyn Davies present Thomas Dunford’s complete Handel program recorded with Ensemble Jupiter. Featuring Dunford on the lute, the new album {…}
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Sabine Devieilhe, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Véronique Gens, Ian Bostridge & Stéphane Degout Headline Opéra Comique’s 2022 Season

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(Credit: © Julia Lamoureux) Opéra Comique in Paris has announced its 2022 season, featuring seven operas. Here is the full slate. Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet” opens the season with Sabine Devieilhe as Ophélie and Stéphane Degout in the title role. The cast also includes Laurent Alvaro, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Pierre Derhet, Jérôme Varnier, Yu Shao, Geoffroy Buffière, and Nicolas Legoux. Louis Langrée {…}
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Marina Rebeka, Chenn Reiss, Christophe Dumeaux, Veronique Gens Headline Les Talens Lyriques 2021-22 Season

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(Credit: © Ceric Larrayadieu) Christophe Rousset is set to lead Les Talens Lyriques in a unique 30th anniversary season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on opera or vocal performances. Mezzo-soprano Grace Durham will headline a program of music by Couperin, Lambert, Purcell, Leclair, and Stuck at the Festival Antiqua Bozano and in Berlin. Performance Dates: {…}
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Anja Harteros, Marian Anderson & Veronique Gens Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week two solo recital albums make up the new releases. One comes from one of the greatest living sopranos and the other arrives from one of the great baroque interpreters of our time. There will also be a box set of recordings by a legendary mezzo-sopranos as well as an electronic opera. Anja Harteros  Warner Classics releases Anja Harteros’ {…}
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Roberto Alagna, Catherine Hunold, Véronique Gens & Valerio Contaldo Headline Opéra de Massy’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: Gregor Hohenberg/Sony Music / Brennecke Art official website / Franck Juery / Alpha Classics / Operabase official website) Opéra de Massy in France has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is the full slate. Operas Bizet‘s “Carmen” opens the season. Thomas Bettinger performs Don José, Christian Helmer portrays Escamillo, and Ahlima Mhamdi takes on the title role. The cast also {…}
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Véronique Gens, Sophie Koch, Roderick Williams & Lionel Lhote Lead Festival Berlioz 2021

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(Credits: Franck Juery / Vincent Pontet / Groves Artists official website / Jacques Leinne) The Festival Berlioz has announced its 2021 edition that is set to take place from August 19 until August 30. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. Mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch performs works by Hector Berlioz alongside Pascal Rophé, who conducts {…}
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Bliss Song Series 2026-27 Stars Golda Schultz, Fatma Said, & Ian Bostridge CBE

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The 2026-27 season of the Bliss Song Series at Pembroke College, Cambridge is announced. Soprano Véronique Gens with Artistic Director and pianist Joseph Middleton open the season with a concert of French melodies. Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2026 Soprano Fatma Said and Middleton perform Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” and a collection of Spanish and Egyptian Song. Performance Date: Nov. 14, 2026 Mezzo-soprano {…}
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Adriana González, Isabel Leonard, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Sabine Devieilhe to Headline LIFE Victoria Cicle de Lied Victoria de los Ángeles’s 2026-27 Season

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The LIFE Victoria Cicle de Lied Victoria de los Ángeles has announced its 2026-27 season, titled “L’exili” (Exile), dedicated to the memory of soprano Felicity Lott and commemorating the 150th anniversary of the births of Manuel de Falla and Pau Casals. Soprano Adriana González and conductor and composer Pedro Pardo serve as artists in residence, with visual artist Javier Pérez {…}

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