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The Dallas Opera Announces 2024-25 Participants for Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors

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The Dallas Opera has announced the selection of the 2024-25 participants in the Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors. This season the conductors selected are Jiannan Cheng (China), Virginie Déjos (France), Anna Castro Grinstein (Spain/Argentina), and CJ Wu (Taiwan). The musicians were chosen from a worldwide applicant pool of 94 conductors, the second largest group since the program’s {…}

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Grimeborn Opera Festival Kicks off 2024 Season

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The Grimeborn Opera Festival is set to kick off its 2024 edition. First up is Heinrich August Marschner’s “Der Vampyr” in a production by Julia Mintzer conducted by Kelly Lovelady. The opera, presented by Gothic Opera, stars Giuseppe Pellingra, Milena Knauß, Jack Roberts, Amber Reeves, Conall O’Neill, Madeleine Todd, Matthew Scott Clark, and Gráinne Master. Performance Date: August 14 – 17, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Munich Opera Festival 2024 Review: Pique Dame

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(Credit: W. Hoesl) Lise Davidsen as the headliner in Tchaikovsky’s “Pique Dame” at the Munich Opera Festival is an apt addition. It is a production full of theatrical effects created by Benedict Andrews with full-screen projections of Lisa in various enticing poses, including cars serving as platforms for singers and chorus-women, a bleacher-filled chorus partially masked, and G-string quasi-strippers. There {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2023–24 Review: Tosca (Cast B)

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(Photo credit: © Marc Brenner/Royal Opera) N.B. In this performance of “Tosca” Russell Thomas replaced the previously scheduled Yusif Eyvazov, who was indisposed. Entitlement enlightens spectators on the contrasting and yet comparable personas of soprano Floria Tosca and barbaric chief of police Scarpia: spoiled brats forsaking all who block their way. Sways of a dress’s train portray the former’s annexing {…}

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Northern Ireland Opera 2023-24 Review: The Juniper Tree

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Fairytales have not been kind to stepmothers. Usually depicted as jealous, manipulative and vicious, with a predilection for maltreating, disinheriting and murdering their stepchildren, stepmothers are probably on par with another favorite hate figure of the genre, the wicked witch. A typical example is found in “The Juniper Tree,” taken from Grimms’ Fairytales, published in 1812. This stepmother is not {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Artistic Director & CEO of Northern Ireland Opera Cameron Menzies on Creating a Meaningful Program of Imaginative Works for the People

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Anyone who has cast their eye on the state of opera in the Republic of Ireland over recent years will no doubt be aware of the renaissance that has taken place there. Yet, far fewer people will know of the recent progress that has been made north of the border, where Northern Ireland Opera has emerged from Covid with an {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Greg Kallor on Creating the ‘Frankenstein’ Opera

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This past week, the Arizona Opera presented the world premiere of Greg Kallor’s second opera “Frankenstein.” Kallor is a composer and pianist whose first opera “The Tell-Tale Heart” will be performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has also collaborated Dover and Escher String Quartets and Tuesday Musical and has also performed in recital at Carnegie Hall. {…}

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Q & A: Yongzhao Yu & Véronique Filloux on Performing Rodolfo & Musetta for the Berkshire Opera Festival’s First-Ever ‘La Bohème’

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For the Berkshire Opera Festival’s first “La Bohème,” OperaWire interviewed two of the leads, Yongzhao Yu (Rodolfo)  and Véronique Filloux (Musetta). The festival, not far from the historic site of Tanglewood, has over the years gained a reputation for exciting and powerful productions. It is also known for spotting rising talent poised to reach an ever wider audience around the globe. {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Gregg Kallor on ‘Frankenstein’ and Making a Positive Difference in His First Opera

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Gregg Kallor’s “Frankenstein” is commissioned by Arizona Opera and will make its world premiere in October 2023 with performances in Phoenix and Tucson. This opera in two acts; adapted from Mary Shelley’s novel, brings to the surface humanity’s dire need for greater empathy. Composer and librettist Gregg Kallor in collaboration with director Sarah Meyers, dramaturg Cori Ellison and conductor Nicole {…}