Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Preview: Will Liverman Set to Make History In Cast Starring Kathryn Lewek, David Portillo, Joélle Harvey

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(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) The Met is set to revive Julie Taymor’s “The Magic Flute” on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. The opera will be headlined by a wide-ranging cast of familiar and new faces. Queens and Kings Kathryn Lewek will reprise her Queen of the Night for the fifth season of her career. To date it is the {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: The Queen of Spades

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“The Queen of Spades” is a truly challenging opera to cast, relying on a top tenor that can navigate a complex role. Flanking him are a plethora of other signature roles for two baritones, two mezzo-sopranos, and a soprano. Finally, a good performance of “The Queen of Spades” doesn’t just feature solid singing, but an overall visual immersion that can {…}

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Works & Process Spring 2020 Season To Feature Metropolitan Opera

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The Works & Process, the Performing Arts Series at the Guggenheim has announced its Spring 2020 Season. For this article we will only focus on the operatic works and process sessions. The season will open with Opening Night Cabaret with Anthony Roth Costanzo. The session will focus on Costanzo’s career before he was an opera singer. For one night only, {…}

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Will Liverman To Make Metropolitan Opera History In ‘The Magic Flute’

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Will Liverman is set to make history at the Metropolitan Opera. The rising star baritone, who made his Met debut in 2018, will become the first African American to take on the role of Papageno at the Metropolitan Opera in the company’s 469th performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” “Being the first black Papageno at the Metropolitan Opera is so {…}

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Opera In the Big Easy – New Orleans Opera Association Robert Lyall On Developing The City’s Rich Operatic Tradition

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(Credit: Brittney Werner) If you visit New Orleans today, you can pop into the Napoleon House, the supposed location in which the former emperor would live out his days in North America. The music that you’ll hear while sipping your Pimm’s Cup in the 200-year-old house-turned-bar is classical. Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony is on repeat, after all, the maestro wrote it {…}

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Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 2018-19 Review: Salonen’s Stravinsky – Myths

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I have long mulled over Stravinsky’s concept of theater and his ideas about the relationship of words and dance to music. This concert may have helped me understand it. Led by their Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented the 1947 ballet “Orpheus” and 1934 cantata, “Perséphone,” in what was the third and final concert in a mini-series {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato Headline The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2019-20 season with five new productions, a New Year’s Eve gala, and a recital. Here is a look at what to expect. New Productions The season opens with Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” in a new production by James Robinson. The production stars Eric Owens and Kevin Short sharing the title role of Porgy and {…}

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Spoleto Festival USA 2019 To Showcase Richard Strauss Masterwork

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The Spoleto Festival USA has announced its 2019 season, which will feature one major opera production, among other performances. The festival will open with a production of Strauss’ “Salome.” The famed opera will be directed by Patrice Caurier and Mosh Leiser, with the intention of setting the work in a present-day city. It will be the duo’s ninth year with {…}

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Opéra de Lyon 2018-19 Review: Mefistofele

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The old Irish proverb “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” is particularly applicable to Barcelona-born director Àlex Ollé. Without insinuating any untoward obsession with Satan, in the past ten years Ollé has had numerous dramaturgical dalliances with the Prince of Darkness. First was the cutesy “F@ust3.0” in collaboration with Fura dels Baus co-director Carlos Padrissa. In {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Preview: Will Liverman Set to Make History In Cast Starring Kathryn Lewek, David Portillo, Joélle Harvey

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: The Queen of Spades

Works & Process Spring 2020 Season To Feature Metropolitan Opera

Will Liverman To Make Metropolitan Opera History In ‘The Magic Flute’

Opera In the Big Easy – New Orleans Opera Association Robert Lyall On Developing The City’s Rich Operatic Tradition

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 2018-19 Review: Salonen’s Stravinsky – Myths

Anna Netrebko, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato Headline The Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-20 Season

Spoleto Festival USA 2019 To Showcase Richard Strauss Masterwork

Opéra de Lyon 2018-19 Review: Mefistofele