Ainhoa Arteta, Vittoria Yeo & Karine Babajanyan Highlight Festival Puccini’s 2020 Season

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The Festival Puccini has announced the casting for the 66th annual season. Stefania Sandrelli directs a new production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” The production will inaugurate the festival and star Ainhoa Arteta and Hiromi Omura in the title role. Marcelo Alvarez and Amadi Lagha will alternate the role of Cavaradossi, while Angel Odena will sing the role of Scarpia. Alberto Veronesi {…}

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Jonathan Tetelman & Jodie Devos Lead Opera Orchestre National De Montpellier’s 2019-20 Season

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Opéra de Montpellier has announced its 2019-20 season featuring contemporary and numerous classic works. The season opens with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” starring Karah Son, Fleur Baron, Jonathan Tetelman, and Armando Noguera. Ted Huffmann directs the production with Matteo Beltrami conducting. Performance Dates: Oct. 2-6, 2019 Reinhardt Wagner’s “Poil de carotte” gets a production with Zabou Breitman directing and Victor Jacob conducting. Amélie Tatti, Sylvia Bergé, Bernard Alane, Yoann Le {…}

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Leo Nucci Highlights Ópera de Tenerife’s 2019-20

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The Ópera de Tenerife has announced its 2019-20 featuring six operas, many rising stars, and one legendary artist. Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” opens the season with Maria Rita Combattelli and Beatriz de Sousa sharing the role of Adina and Klodjan Kaҫani, and César Arrieta alternating as Nemorino. Alberto Bonifazio and Jacobo Ochoa Piedrahita alternate as Belcore, while Givi Gigineishvili and Matteo Andrea Mollica are Dulcamara. Antonio {…}

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Megan Marino, Andrew Stenson, Cecilia Violetta Lopez Headline Opera Colorado’s 2019-20 Season

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Opera Colorado has announced its 2019-20 season featuring three classic operas. The season includes rising stars in the business as well as veterans. Here is a look at what to expect. The season opens with Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” with Megan Marino and Andrew Stenson headlining the cast. Bruno Taddia sings the title role, while Stefano De Peppo and Harold Wilson {…}

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Rihab Chaieb, Elsa Dreisig & Jakub Józef Orliński Headline Opera Orchestre National De Montpelier’s 2018-19 Season

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The Opera Orchestre National de Montpelier has announced its 2018-19 season featuring a vast array of repertoire. The season will feature established artists as well as rising stars. For this season announcement, we have only focused on the vocal events. Production Hervé’s “Mam’zelle Nitouche” opens the season with Laura Neumann, Damien Birgourdain, Samy Camps, and Olivier Py in the lead {…}

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Myung-Whun Chung Cancels ‘La Bohème’ At Teatro La Fenice

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Myung-Whun Chung has canceled his participation in Teatro La Fenice’s upcoming performances of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” scheduled for March 16-25, 2018. According to a press release, the conductor has canceled due to a car accident and is currently in recovery at the recommendation of his doctors. Chung will return to La Fenice for Verdi’s ‘Macbeth” in November and will lead the {…}

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Hungarian State Opera Set to Make Hungarian Premiere of Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri”

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On November 18, 2017, Hungarian State Opera will be performing Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri,” making it the first production of the opera ever staged in the city of Budapest. The production comes as part of Hungarian State Opera’s ongoing mission to bring new or rarely-seen operas to audiences in Hungary. The opera itself boasts a marriage of the humor of farce {…}

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CD/DVD Releases -Week of March 12: New Releases From Jose Cura and Klaus Florian Vogt

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This week audiences will have an opportunity to experience rarities from the Bel Canto and baroque era as well as hear one of the supreme Wagnerian tenors. Take a look. Lohengrin Klaus Florian Vogt is known as one of the supreme interpreters of “Lohengrin” and thanks to the Royal Concertgebouw, audiences will get another chance to hear his interpretation in {…}

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Ainhoa Arteta, Vittoria Yeo & Karine Babajanyan Highlight Festival Puccini’s 2020 Season

Jonathan Tetelman & Jodie Devos Lead Opera Orchestre National De Montpellier’s 2019-20 Season

Leo Nucci Highlights Ópera de Tenerife’s 2019-20

Megan Marino, Andrew Stenson, Cecilia Violetta Lopez Headline Opera Colorado’s 2019-20 Season

Rihab Chaieb, Elsa Dreisig & Jakub Józef Orliński Headline Opera Orchestre National De Montpelier’s 2018-19 Season

Myung-Whun Chung Cancels ‘La Bohème’ At Teatro La Fenice

Hungarian State Opera Set to Make Hungarian Premiere of Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri”

CD/DVD Releases -Week of March 12: New Releases From Jose Cura and Klaus Florian Vogt