Opera Australia 2024 Review: Hamlet

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(Credit: Keith Saunders) It was commissioned by and premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017. Then new cities followed suit every year (apart from the horrid COVID-infected era): Adelaide Festival (2018), a new production in Cologne, Germany (2019), the massive success at the Metropolitan Opera of New York (2022) and the Bavarian State Opera in München (2023). Finally, after seven {…}

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CD Review: Hèctor Parra’s ‘Les Bienveillantes’

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This is the sixth of Hèctor Parra’s stageworks, but only the second by the Spanish composer to be issued commercially on disc. His earlier “Hypermusic Prologue“ from 2009 was a mind-numbingly complicated sonic experience—one of those conceptually overblown music-theater experiments that every “serious” European composer of the past decades has felt impelled to foist on audiences. But in the ten {…}

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Theater Essen Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Theater Essen has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the opera productions. The production of the season will be “Rotkäppchen und der Aufschneider.” Performance Dates: Sept. 8, 2024-July 9, 2025 Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” will get a new production directed by Magdalena Fuchsberger and conducted by Christopher Moulds. The production will star Sebastian Pilgrim, Andrei Nicoara, Judith Spiesser, {…}

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Francesco Meli, Lidia Fridman, Marina Monzò & Luca Salsi Lead Teatro La Fenice’s 2024-25 Season

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The Teatro La Fenice has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Myung-Whun Chung conducts Verdi’s “Otello” in a new production by Fabio Ceresa. Francesco Meli sings the title role in a cast that also stars Francesca Dotto and Luca Micheletti. Performance Dates: Nov. 20-Dec. 1, 2024 Marina Monzò, Francesco Demuro, and Nicola Alaimo star in Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Diego Matheuz conducts. Performance {…}

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Opera Vlaanderen Announces 2024-25 Season

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Opera Vlaanderen has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the season. Opera Elena Guseva and Ana Naqe Star in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” alongside Łukasz Załęski and Vincenzo Neri. Daniela Candillari conducts the production by Mariano Pensotti. Performance Dates: Sept. 8-Oct. 16, 2024 Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” is set to star Michèle Losier, Kartal Karagedik, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Wolfgang Stefan {…}

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Q & A: Eugene Brancoveanu on Rigoletto, Modern Music & Opera San Jose

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(Photo credit: David Allen) Romanian baritone Eugene Brancoveanu recently returned to Opera San Jose for the title role of “Rigoletto” as a Resident Artist Emeritus. It’s a role he has performed on numerous occasions and one that he continues to explore with each production. His return to Opera San Jose was also special as he has been with the company {…}

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Obituary: Conductor Michael Boder Dies at 65

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On April 7, 2024, renowned conductor Michael Boder died at 65. Born in Darmstadt, Germany on Nov. 9, 19, 1958, Boder was born into a musical family. His father was an opera singer, who appeared in the title role of Berg’s “Wozzeck.” Boder went on to study at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, and then in Florence where he studied under Riccardo {…}

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Q & A: Ricky Ian Gordon Revisits ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

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(Credit: Fay Fox) Few works of American literature have had quite the impact of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.” Published in 1939, the seminal Pulitzer Prize-winning novel focuses on a poor family of tenant farmers, the Joads, as they are driven from their homes and forces to face the difficult world of the Great Depression. The film received an {…}

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Obituary: German Baritone Gerd Feldhoff Dies at 92

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(Credit: © Harry Groner) On April 4, 2024, German baritone Gerd Feldhoff died at the age of 92. Born on Oct. 29, 1931, in Cologne, he went on to study at the North West Music Academy in Detmold. He made his debut in Essen in 1959 as Figaro in “Le nozze di Figaro” and went on to perform with the {…}

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Opera Australia 2024 Review: Hamlet

CD Review: Hèctor Parra’s ‘Les Bienveillantes’

Theater Essen Announces 2024-25 Season

Francesco Meli, Lidia Fridman, Marina Monzò & Luca Salsi Lead Teatro La Fenice’s 2024-25 Season

Opera Vlaanderen Announces 2024-25 Season

Q & A: Eugene Brancoveanu on Rigoletto, Modern Music & Opera San Jose

Obituary: Conductor Michael Boder Dies at 65

Q & A: Ricky Ian Gordon Revisits ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

Obituary: German Baritone Gerd Feldhoff Dies at 92