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Wiener Staatsoper 2019-20 Review: Don Carlo

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 (Credits: Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Pöhn) Verdi’s “Don Carlo” is one of the staples of the repertoire, best-known for its lush ensembles, vocal writing, and impactful drama. It requires six of the greatest voices in the opera world and also requires a conductor who knows how to pace the evening; both are essential to fulfill the work’s masterful potential. On {…}
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Kathryn Lewek Makes Statement Regarding Body Shaming By Journalists

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Kathryn Lewek is calling out journalists for fat-shaming. After a critic slammed Lewek for her postpartum physique, the soprano is calling on critics to stop harassing singers for their bodies. In a statement via social media, the soprano opted to tell her story and how the criticism affected her. She said, “Body shaming is not new, nor is the fight {…}
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Midsummer Vilnius 2019 Review: Asmik Grigorian in concert

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Asmik Grigorian started her summer festival season with a marvelous homecoming event in Vilnius. To say that this concert was long-awaited is a massive understatement. It would be sold out twice even if she had another recital days or weeks early — Asmik Grigorian is an absolute favorite of the local audience. But this concert happened after a long pause {…}
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Mostly Mozart Festival 2019 Review: The Black Clown

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(Photo Credit: Richard Termine) July 24, 2019, saw the New York premiere of “The Black Clown,” a new work adapted from the Langston Hughes poem of the same name, with music by Michael Schachter and directed by Zack Winokur. Exploring the struggles of the African-American experience, this powerful work blends opera with the styles of gospel, vaudeville, and jazz, allowing {…}
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New York Opera Festival 2019: Divaria Productions Showcases ‘La Voix Humaine’

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The New York Opera Fest 2019 kicked off on Monday, April 29 and for the next several weeks, New Yorkers will get ample opportunity to enjoy opera in a variety of unique ways. As has been OperaWire’s tradition over the years, we have reached out to a number of the companies participating in the festival and have asked them a {…}
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Teatro Verdi Trieste 2018-19 Season Review: Madama Butterfly

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In Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1881 operetta “Patience,” the Oscar Wilde parody character Reginald Bunthorne boasts “I do not care for all one sees – that’s Japanese.” At the end of the Victorian era, the Land of the Rising Sun was an object of immense curiosity all over Western Europe and it seemed no occidental nation was immune to the craze {…}
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San Francisco Opera 2018-19 Review: Orlando

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(Credit: Cory Weaver / San Francisco) San Francisco Opera’s “Orlando” was not like its poem of origin by Ariosto, “furioso” or “impassionato.” Rather, it was thoughtful performance, set during the London Blitz in WW II, where it brought together images of the disasters of war along with its chilling human side effects and provoked questioning and rethinking human values. Originally {…}
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5 Facts About Piotr Beczala’s Relationship To Wagner’s Music

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This summer Piotr Beczala is set to return to the Bayreuth Festival to reprise the title role in Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” Performances are set to reunite the tenor with Anna Netrebko and Christian Thielemann. Back in January, the tenor sat down with the Wagner Society of New York to talk about the famed composer and performing with Anna Netrebko. Here are {…}

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