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Metropolitan Opera Guild to Scale Down Operations, Announces Major Changes for Opera News

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The Metropolitan Opera Guild has announced that it will scale back its operations this fall due to economic headwinds. The Guild said that its monthly publication, Opera News, will continue under the editorial direction of the U.K.-based Opera Magazine beginning December 2023. Additionally, the Met will incorporate the Guild’s largest educational activity, the dress-rehearsal program that each year brings 12,000 school children to the Metropolitan {…}

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Lea Desandre, Sinead Campbell Wallace, Catherine Foster & Jean-François Borras Lead Opéra de Dijon’s 2023-24 Season

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France’s Opéra de Dijon has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the operatic and vocal concerts. Opera Händel’s “Ariodante” is set to star Lea Desandre, Ana Maria Labin, Ana Vieira Leite, Hugh Cutting, Kresimir Spicer, Moritz Kallenberg, and Renato Dolcini. William Christie conducts. Performance Date: Oct. 15, 2023 Beethoven’s “Fidelio” will star Sinead Campbell Wallace, Maximilian Schmitt, Martina Russomanno, Mischa {…}

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Piotr Buszewski, Christiane Libor & Tomasz Konieczny Lead Oper Leipzig’s 2023-24 Season

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Germany’s Oper Leipzig has announced its 2023-24 season featuring five new productions. Premieres Peter Maxwell Davies’s “Majesty and Madness” will be presented in a production by Marlene Hahn. Samuel Emanuel conducts a cast that includes Marie-Luise Dreßen and Franz Xaver Schlecht. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-24, 2023 Mozart’s “Die Zauberflote” will be conducted by Jonathan Darlington, Ivan Repušić, Christoph Gedschold, and {…}

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Christian Thielemann Cancels Richard Strauss Days in Dresden

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The Semperoper Dresden announced that Christian Thielemann has had to cancel “Richard Strauss Days” due to health issues. The company said that for the revival of “Der Rosenkavalier” on March 25 and April 3, 2023, Cornelius Meister will conduct. Meanwhile, “Arabella” on March 30 and April 5 and 7, 2023 will be taken on by conductor David Afkham. Finally, the {…}

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Bayerische Staatsoper Terminates Children’s Choir Director

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has terminated Stellario Fagone contract. According to reports from BR Klassik, the director of the children’s choir has been out of office since March 7.  The Bayerische Staatsoper and Faone have remained silent regarding the reasons for the dismissal. However, the chorus wrote a letter to the minister of culture Markus Blume, and to the music director {…}

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‘La Sonnambula’ Cut from Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Season, Set for 2025

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Following the announcement of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season, the company disclosed that a major new production was cut due to budgetary concerns. General Manager Peter Gelb told the AP said that “Rolando Villazón’s staging of Bellini’s ‘Sonnambula’ was cut and will be presented in the future.” OperaWire was later informed that the production would be headed to the Met {…}

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Erin Morley, John Holiday & Joélle Harvey Lead Handel and Haydn Society’s 2023-24 Season

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The Handel and Haydn Society has announced its 2023-24 season, the first under new Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen. “This season we will make the old new again as our orchestra and chorus approach every piece of music with passion, vitality, and freshness on instruments from the period as the composers intended,” said Jonathan Cohen, Artistic Director of the Handel and {…}

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Appoints Assistant Conductor

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced that Samy Rachid has been appointed as new assistant conductor for a two-year term. Rachid’s term will be effective in October 2023. BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons named Rachid to succeed Anna Rakitina in the position following an audition process. Rachid joins Earl Lee, appointed in 2021, as one of the BSO’s two assistant {…}

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Steps Down

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The English orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has announced that Kirill Karabits will step down as Chief Conductor. Karabits will leave his post during the summer of 2024 after completing 15 years with the orchestra. The conductor the BSO’s second longest-serving chief conductor after its founder Sir Dan Godfrey. He will become Bournemouth’s conductor laureate, artistic director, Voices from the East. {…}