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PBS Announces Broadcasting Slate for Joseph Calleja & Diana Damrau Met Opera Performance

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PBS has announced that it will start broadcasting Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja’s concert from the Met Opera in 2020 on August 6, 2021. Additionally, the organization revealed that “Great Performances at the Met: Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert” will be hitting the New York metro area on Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. on THIRTEEN. The {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Anja Harteros & Christian Gerhaher Lead Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2021-22 Season

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(In collaboration with Dejan Vukosavljevic) The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2021-22 season featuring new productions and revivals as well as concerts. Here is a look at the new season. Premieres Shostakovich’s “The Nose” will get a new production by Kirill Serebrennikow. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the cast that includes Boris Pinkhasovich, Sergei Leiferkus, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Andrey Popov, Sergey Skorokhodov, Anton Rositskiy, {…}

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Renata Scotto, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Jamie Barton Headline Weeks 66, 67, & 68 of Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next three weeks of nightly streams. The first week will center on Father’s Day, and the following week will celebrate Pride Month, highlighting great performances by artists from the LGBTQ+ community. The final week will be focused on American composers. Additionally, the 1997 telecast of Britten’s “Billy Budd,” featuring Philip Langridge, Dwayne Croft, and {…}

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PBS Announces Broadcast Date for Roberto Alagna & Aleksandra Kurzak’s Met Stars Live in Concert Performance

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PBS has announced that it will be broadcasting Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak’s performance from the Met Stars Live in Concert series on June 4, 2021. The showcase, which took place in August 2020, featured the famed opera couple live from Èze in France performing music by Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, Gounod, Verdi, and Léhar, among others. In his OperaWire review {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland & Renée Fleming Headline Week 62 & 63 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams featuring such stars as Nadine Sierra, Anna Netrebko, Mirella Freni, René Pape, Renée Fleming, Joan Sutherland, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Diana Damrau. The first week’s theme will be “Unhinged Mad Scenes” while the second will shine a spotlight on “Rare Gems.” Week 62 – Unhinged Mad {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Luca Pisaroni on Why His ‘Personal Idea of Hell is Repeating the Same Thing’

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(Credit: Chris Singer) In Gramophone’s Opera recording of the year, Handel’s “Agrippina” with Erato Records, there are many shinning vocal performances, including those by Joyce DiDonato, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Franco Fagioli, and Luca Pisaroni, to name but a few. Luca Pisaroni wows the listener in the role of the bumbling Emperor Claudio. Pisaroni is perhaps best-known these days for his work {…}

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Ben Heppner, Renée Fleming, Sondra Radvanovsky, & Renata Scotto Headline Week 60 & 61 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next two weeks of streams that will feature Teresa Stratas, Carol Vaness, Samuel Ramey, Ben Heppner, Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Lawrence Brownlee, and Sondra Radvanovsky. The first week’s theme will be “Happy Mother’s Day” while the second will shine a spotlight on “National Council Auditions Alumni.” All streams are available directly on the company’s official website. Week {…}

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PBS Announces Schedule for Broadcast of Lise Davidsen’s Metropolitan Opera Performance

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PBS has announced that it will start broadcasting Lise Davidsen’s concert from the Met Opera in 2020 on May 7, 2021. Additionally, the organization revealed that “Great Performances at the Met: Lise Davidsen in Concert” will be hitting the New York metro area on Monday, May 17, 2021 at 8 p.m. on THIRTEEN. The performance featured the soprano taking on a {…}

Special Features

OPERA NEWS Delivers Virtual Celebration of Three Giants of the Opera World

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The pre-recorded 16th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards Gala streamed on Sunday, April 18, 2021, and the Met Opera Guild and OPERA NEWS deserve kudos for the online event, but let’s face reality, after a year of virtual everything, it’s all wearing thin—especially given that many of us are suffering serious Zoom fatigue. Do we want to plop down in front {…}