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Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City 2024 Review: Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducts Haydn & Ginastera

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(Photo credit: Tuesday night at Lincoln Center offered some true gems, an enticing evening even for seasoned New Yorkers. All the more delightful, as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City, tickets for the show were “choose-what-you-pay”, making it accessible to a wider, more relaxed summer crowd in the Wu Tsai Theater of David Geffen Hall.  It’s a welcome {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: The Hours

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(Photos: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera presented the tenth performance of composer Kevin Puts’s “The Hours,” with libretto by Greg Pierce, on Friday, May 10th 2024.  In November 2022, OperaWire reviewed “The Hours” debut with great attention towards how the opera came to the Met, including Kevin Puts’s score, Greg Pierce’s libretto, and the undeniable beauty of the {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: El Niño

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(Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) Metropolitan Opera debuted John Adams’s “El Niño,” with libretto based on original sources by Peter Sellars and John Adams, to a sold out house of past, present, and future opera goers on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024. “El Niño” is unlike anything John Adams has done before and the historical timing of this debut is {…}
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Gerda Lissner Foundation Announces ‘An Evening of Lieder / Song, Opera, Operetta, and Zarzuela’

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The Gerda Lissner Foundation is set to present a free concert at Carnegie Hall. The showcase, scheduled for May 2, 2024, is entitled “An Evening of Lieder / Song, Opera, Operetta, and Zarzuela.” It kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and will feature the top winners from the 2024 International Vocal Competition and the 2023 {…}
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The Atlanta Opera Review 2024: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Photo credit: Raftermen “Toi toi toi, y’all,” intones the attractive, Southern-inflected t-shirt at The Atlanta Opera’s pop-up gift shop. An apt tagline for a company having outgrown regional status, still honoring its roots in this de facto capital of the American South. Like Atlanta—now the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the United States, having recently edged past Philadelphia and {…}
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Christopher Purves, Ruzan Mantashyan, Nicole Chevalier, John Holiday & Adela Zaharia Lead Komische Oper Berlin’s 2024-25 Season

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The Komische Oper has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the operatic performances. Premieres  George Petrou conducts Händel’s “Messiah” with Damiano Michieletto directing. The soloists will include Penny Sofroniadou, Julia Grüter, Rachael Wilson, Katharina Bradić, Julien Behr, Rupert Charlesworth, Philipp Meierhöfer, and Tijl Faveyts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 6, 2024 Franz Wittenbrink’s kinderoper “Die kleine Hexe” will {…}
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Lyric Opera of Chicago 2023-24 Review: Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion’

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(Photo: Michael Brosilow) Fresh from a Metropolitan Opera premiere last spring (and its subsequent Grammy Award victory), Terence Blanchard’s first opera in jazz, “Champion,” enjoyed its Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere in James Robinson’s vivid and effective staging, a co-production on January 27th, 2024. A dazzling cast led by Justin Austin as Emile Griffith made a powerful case for repeated {…}
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Trekking Through American Opera (Part Two)

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(Photo Credits: Karen Almon/Metropolitan Opera) Throughout this new series, we will be looking at the history of American opera, beginning in the 2000s through to the present, through revisiting certain iconic works of the past two decades and OperaWire’s coverage of them throughout the 21st century. In part one, we looked at the developments of the 2000s. In part two, {…}
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Pangkor Laut Resort to Present First-Ever ‘Opera in Paradise’

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Malaysia’s Pangkor Laut Resort is set to present the first-ever “Opera in Paradise” this October. From Oct. 20-22, audiences will get a chance to experience a unique performance featuring such artists as tenor Michael Austin, flutist Andrea Griminelli, and vocal duo Belle Voci. Austin is an American singer who has performed throughout the world and famously appeared in the world {…}

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