Opera Atelier Co-Artistic Directors Honored with Prestigious French Order of Arts & Letters

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Opera Atelier has announced that the company’s Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg C.M. have been awarded the extraordinary recognition of Officers of the Order of Arts and Letters (Officiers de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Republic. This will be the first time a Canadian couple receives the distinction simultaneously. The award will {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra de Versailles 2019-20 Review: Ercole Amante

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A Baroque opera with a goddess riding a flying pig and a sea-god in a submarine? These were just some of the unexpected combinations that you could see if you went to the Opéra de Versailles’ new production of “Ercole Amante.” This co-production of the Opéra National de Bordeaux and the Opéra Comique was performed five times in Paris where {…}

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Valer Sabadus To Make Australia Debut With Pinchgut Opera

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(Credit: Henning Ross, Sony Classical) Countertenor Valer Sabadus will be performing in Australia for the first time in collaboration with Pinchgut Opera on August 25, 2019. The recital will take place at the City Recital Hall in Sydney and will feature the Orchestra of Antipodes under the musical direction of Erin Heylard. It will feature music by Handel, Caldara, Hasse, {…}

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Opéra Grand Avignon Announces Its 2019-20 Season

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Opéra Grand Avignon has announced its 2019-20 season. Opera The opera season will kick off with a new production o Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” directed by Eric Chevalier. Marie Karall stars in the title role, alongside Pierre Derhet as Piquillo, Philippe Ermelier as Viceroy of Peru, Enguerrand de Hys as Don Pedro of Panatellas, and Ugo Rabec as Don Pedro of {…}

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Opera Atelier Co-Artistic Directors To Stage Historic Performance At Royal Opera House at Versaille

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Opera Atelier has announced that Founding Co-Artistic Directors Marshall Pynkoski C.M. and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg C.M. will stage and choreograph Grétry’s opera “Richard Coeur-de-lion.” The production will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Opera House at Versailles at Château de Versailles. The event marks an immense recognition for Pynkoski and Lajeunesse Zingg who were selected as the only non-French artists {…}

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Salzburg Festival 2018 Review: The Queen of Spades

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It is hard to imagine Russian music without Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Russian literature without poet Alexander Pushkin. Tchaikovsky’s opera “The Queen of Spades,” based on the eponymous novella by Pushkin, is one of the most important of the existing operas. Its beautiful and dark music leaves hardly any hope at the end, revealing a very fatalistic, and very Slavic, way {…}

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Opera Atelier To Feature Two Operas In 2018-19 Season

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Opera Atelier has announced its 2018-2019 season featuring two operatic gems. The season opens with a French Baroque double bill featuring Charpentier’s “Actéon” and Rameau’s “Pygmalion.” The operas will star Colin Ainsworth in both title roles, alongside Mireille Asselin (Diana & Amour), Allyson McHardy (Juno & Céphise), Jesse Blumberg, Christopher Enns, Meghan Lindsay, Cynthia Smithers and Anna Sharpe. Marshall Pynkoski directs the production with a choreography by Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg. Performance Dates: {…}

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Q & A: Soprano Francesca Aspromonte & Violinist Boris Begelman on the Creation of ‘Un’Alma Innamorata’

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“We met on the job around 10 years ago, for a few projects over some years. The first time not a word, the second a few, the third ‘Hey, would you like to do a concert program together’ and the fourth… was the last and here we are! It took me many hours in the kitchen, but I got him {…}

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Ravenna Festival to Present Da Ponte Trilogy

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The Ravenna Festival is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary with Mozart’s Da Ponte trilogy. The festival will present the trilogy from Oct. 31 through Nov. 6 at the Teatro Alighieri. The festival will join forces with two of Europe’s oldest theatres, the Swedish Drottningholms Slottsteater and the Opéra Royal de Versailles. On the podium of the Luigi Cherubini Youth {…}

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Opera Atelier Co-Artistic Directors Honored with Prestigious French Order of Arts & Letters

Opéra de Versailles 2019-20 Review: Ercole Amante

Valer Sabadus To Make Australia Debut With Pinchgut Opera

Opéra Grand Avignon Announces Its 2019-20 Season

Opera Atelier Co-Artistic Directors To Stage Historic Performance At Royal Opera House at Versaille

Salzburg Festival 2018 Review: The Queen of Spades

Opera Atelier To Feature Two Operas In 2018-19 Season

Q & A: Soprano Francesca Aspromonte & Violinist Boris Begelman on the Creation of ‘Un’Alma Innamorata’

Ravenna Festival to Present Da Ponte Trilogy