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Amanda Forsythe, Iestyn Davies & Soloman Howard To Be Featured In Handel and Haydn Society’s 2018-19 Season

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The Handel and Hayden Society has announced its 2018-19 season which will feature nine major subscription concerts and 16 Handel and Haydn premieres. It will also mark the 204th season of the society which is led by Artistic Director Harry Christophers. The Handel and Haydn Society brings Classical and Baroque music to life on period instruments in historically informed performances, {…}
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Amanda Forsyth, Vox Luminus, Chanticleer, Haitham Haidar Among Headliners of Early Music Seattle’s 2026-27 Season

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Early Music Seattle has announced its 2026-27 Beyond Baroque Festival season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Vox Luminis performs Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beata Vergine” in a program of sacred music spanning the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Performance Date: Nov. 20, 2026 Soprano Amanda Forsythe leads her ensemble Opera Prima as part of the “In Her Voice” Winter Festival. {…}
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Iestyn Davies, Sophie Bevan, Allan Clayton, Amanda Majeski Headline Barbican’s 2022-23 Season

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London’s Barbican Centre has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal showcases. Laurence Cummings leads the Academy of Ancient Music in a performance of Haydn’s “The Seasons” with Sophie Bevan, Benjamin Hulett, and Jonathan Lemalu as the soloists. Performance Date: Oct. 4, 2022 Baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton perform {…}
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Reginald Mobley, Sophie Klussmann, Élisabeth St-Gelais Lead Bourgie Hall’s 2026-27 Season

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The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Bourgie Hall has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Concerto di Margherita opens the season with “Love’s Blindness – Il gioco della cieca,” a program of Italian Renaissance vocal and instrumental music by such composers as Caccnini, Monteveri, Kapsberger, D’India, and Frescobaldi, among others. Performance Date: Sept. 24, 2026 {…}
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New York Festival of Song to Present ‘Poulenc/Sondheim’ at Merkin Hall

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The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) will present “Poulenc/Sondheim” on April 7, 2026 at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York. Soprano Christine Taylor Price and baritone Theo Hoffman will be featured alongside pianists and NYFOS curators Steven Blier, Artistic Director of NYFOS, and Bénédicte Jourdois, Associate Artistic Director. “Francis Poulenc’s songs conjure up {…}
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The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Names New Executive Director & CEO

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The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts has announced the appointment of Jean Davidson as Executive Director and CEO, effective May 4, 2026. Davidson comes to The Wallis from the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where she served as Executive Director from 2023. During her tenure, she oversaw {…}
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Cast Change: Anthony León Joins Cast of Washington Concert Opera’s ‘Les Pêcheurs de Perles’

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Washington Concert Opera has announced that tenor Anthony León will replace Duke Kim in the role of Nadir in its upcoming production of Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles.” León, a recent recipient of a 2024 Richard Tucker Career Grant, recently appeared at Lyric Opera of Chicago as Ferrando in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” and is set to sing Fenton in {…}
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Houston Grand Opera Names New Chief Philanthropy Officer

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(Photo credit: Claire McAdams) Houston Grand Opera has announced the appointment of Darcy Douglas as its new Chief Philanthropy Officer. Douglas recently served as Vice President of Advancement and Alumni Engagement at South Texas College of Law Houston since 2021. Under her leadership, the department underwent a complete transformation, resulting in a 51 percent increase in philanthropic revenue during her {…}
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Scarlett Jones Wins Top Prize at Houston Grand Opera’s 2026 Concert of Arias

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(Photo Credit: Michael Bishop) Houston Grand Opera has announced the winners of the Concert of Arias at the 38th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. British soprano Scarlett Jones took home first place and the $25,000 prize. Currently pursuing her Master of Music at The Juilliard School as a Kovner Fellow, Jones recently performed Gertrude in Humperdinck’s “Hansel and {…}

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