Spoleto Festival USA Announces New ‘Pay What You Will’ Ticket Program

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The Spoleto Festival USA has announced a new program entitled “Pay What You Will” ticket pricing. General Director & CEO Mena Mark Hanna noted that the program was created with an aim to welcome new audience members to Spoleto this season. Patrons will be able to purchase tickets for a price they determine (at a minimum of $5 per ticket {…}

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Renée Fleming Cancels Met Opera Tour

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Renée Fleming has canceled her participation in the Met Opera tour this summer. As a result, Angel Blue will replace Fleming in the concerts, which are set to take place in Paris, Baden-Baden, London, and New York. Blue will sing alongside Russell Thomas and the conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The soprano is set to return to the Met this spring in {…}

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Opera Philadelphia Announces Outdoor Screening of ‘La Traviata’

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Opera Philadelphia has announced a free outdoor screening of “La Traviata” on Sept. 9, 2021. The showcase, which is set to take place at Dilworth Park, was originally scheduled for Sept. 8 at 8 p.m., but was rescheduled due to prognostications of rain. The opera stars Lisette Oropesa as Violetta, Alek Shrader as Alfredo, and Stephen Powell as Germont in {…}

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Q & A: Stage Director Femi Elufowoju Jr on His Debut as the First Black Opera Director at a Major UK House

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(Credit: Tyler Fayose) Femi Elufowoju Jr is a practitioner of many crafts. He’s a screen actor with 15 credits, a stage director who has been at the helm for myriads of productions, and a film director. But there was a missing piece. Elufowoju Jr is a music lover and comprehends the enormous power it can have over an audience. The {…}

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Sonya Yoncheva to Debut at ABAO With Recital

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Soprano Sonya Yoncheva will make her debut at ABAO on Stage on May 15, 2021. The famed soprano will perform recital featuring scenes from “Hérodiade,” “Thaïs,” “Iolanta,” “Le Villi,” “Rusalka,” “La Bohème,” “Madama Butterfly,” “Manon,” and “Carmen.” She will be accompanied by French pianist Antoine Palloc, who will also be making his company debut. This recital is the latest in {…}

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Met Opera ‘Akhnaten’ Leads Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend In North America

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With the 2019-20 season fully underway, we have found this challenge of selecting a choice few operas every weekend increasingly challenging as there is really a lot of special work going on around North America. Nonetheless, as per usual, we have whittled it down to five works that we think will bring a balanced operatic diet for those who want {…}

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Opus Klassik Announces 2019 Award Nominees

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Opus Klassik and Idagio have announced the nominees of the 2019 Opus Klassik Awards. Here you will find the nominees for categories related to opera. Nominees for Category 1 | Sängerin des Jahres (Singer of the Year – Women) include: Tora Augestad for “Portraying Passion – Works by Weill/Paus/Ives;” Emoke Baráth for “Voglio Cantar;” Cecilia Bartoli for “Antonio Vivaldi;” Maria {…}

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OPERA NEWS Honors Five Great Opera Figures

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The 14th annual OPERA NEWS Awards were held on April 7, 2019, with a star-studded gala that honored five major figures of the opera world. The evening began with a cocktail hour before guests and honorees were brought to the main hall of the Plaza Hall to get the ceremony underway. OPERA NEWS editor F. Paul Driscoll kicked off the proceedings by {…}

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9 World Premieres That Starred Baritone Nathan Gunn

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Nathan Gunn is one of America’s great modern-day baritones. Born on Nov. 26, 1970, he has had a wide-ranging career that has seen him appear in a wide range of repertoire, from classics by Mozart and Rossini, to romantic works from the French masters, to a number of modern operas. The latter operas are the ones in which he has {…}

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Spoleto Festival USA Announces New ‘Pay What You Will’ Ticket Program

Renée Fleming Cancels Met Opera Tour

Opera Philadelphia Announces Outdoor Screening of ‘La Traviata’

Q & A: Stage Director Femi Elufowoju Jr on His Debut as the First Black Opera Director at a Major UK House

Sonya Yoncheva to Debut at ABAO With Recital

Met Opera ‘Akhnaten’ Leads Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend In North America

Opus Klassik Announces 2019 Award Nominees

OPERA NEWS Honors Five Great Opera Figures

9 World Premieres That Starred Baritone Nathan Gunn