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Classical Movements Announces Spring and Summer 2022 Secret Garden Concerts

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Alexandria, Virginia-based Classical Movements has announced their spring and summer 2022 Secret Garden Concerts featuring several vocal performances ranging from art song to zarzuela. For this article, our focus is on scheduled vocal performances. Here’s what’s in store for audiences. Soprano Shana Oshiro, along with pianist Brian Bartoldus and cellist Jodi Beder, will present “Out of Eden: A Journey Through {…}
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Q & A: Powerful Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano On Facing Challenging Roles in ‘Sketches from Frankenstein,’ ‘A Song By Mahler,’ & ‘The Hours’

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Jennifer Johnson Cano has garnered critical acclaim for committed performances of both new and standard repertoire. For her performance as Offred in Poul Ruders’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” she was lauded as “towering…restless, powerful, profound, she is as formidable as this astonishingly demanding role deserves.” With more than 100 performances on the stage at The Metropolitan Opera, her most recent roles {…}
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Bucklesweet Announces Client Events for Spring 2022

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Bucklesweet has announced its client performance lineup for March and April 2022. With events set to take place in Washington, D.C., New York City, Florida, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles, audiences around the United States will enjoy live performances across a range of genres and styles. For this article, only vocal performances are listed, and these are by state. Washington {…}
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Bel Canto in Tuscany to Present ‘Serata Lirica’

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Bel Canto in Tuscany is set to present “Serata Lirica” on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 at The Falls Church in Falls Church, Virginia. The showcase, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m., will feature such artists as soprano Victoria Cannizzo, baritone Geoffrey DiGiorgio, mezzo-soprano Shana Fishman, mezzo-soprano Eugenia Forteza, soprano Karen Fried, baritone JP Gorski, mezzo-soprano Cara Schaefer, bass Jim Williams, {…}
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Director / Mezzo-Soprano Malena Dayen Among Princeton University’s 2022-23 Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows

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Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts has announced their five Mary Mackall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year and one of them happens to be a major player in the independent New York opera scene. Among this year’s fellowships, which is given to artists who demonstrate “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts,” is mezzo-soprano and {…}
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Olga Neuwirth Receives Grawemeyer Award For Music Composition

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(Credit: © Priska Ketterer) Austrian composer and multimedia artist Olga Neuwirth was awarded the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, which includes a $100,000 cash prize. Neuwirth was honored for the composition of the opera “Orlando” which had its world premiere at the Wiener Staatsoper in December 2019. Neuwirth also wrote the libretto in collaboration with Catherine {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Javier Camarena, Roberto Alagna & Nadine Sierra Lead Teatro Colon’s 2022 Season

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The Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires has announced its 2022 season featuring opera, concerts, and great performers. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Verónica Cangemi, Alexandra Grigoras, Saimir Pirgu, Behzod Davronov, Giuliana Gianfaldoni, María Belén Rivarola, Alfonso Mujica, Armando Noguera, Fernando Radó, Lucas Debevec Mayer, Juan Font, Felipe Carelli, Sergio Spina, and Iván Maier. Alain Guingal conducts the {…}
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Frederick Ballentine to Receive 2021 Marian Anderson Vocal Award

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(Credit: Jens Fauth) Washington National Opera has announced that tenor Frederick Ballentine has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Marian Anderson Vocal Award, in recognition of his artistic accomplishments and great promise of an illustrious career. A Virginia native and a 2018 alumnus of WNO’s Cafritz Young Artist Program, Ballentine made his Metropolitan Opera debut in their acclaimed {…}

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