Samantha Hankey, Susan Bullock, Roland Wood & Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Lead Scottish Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The Scottish Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring new productions, pop operas, and opera in concert. Opera The season opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” starring Roland Wood, Jonathan McGovern, Zachary Altman, Hye-Youn Lee, Keel Watson, Pablo Bemsch, Shengzhi Ren, Kitty Whately, Lea Shaw, and Emyr Wyn Jones. Stuart Stratford conducts the production by Sir Thomas Allen. Performance Dates: May 28-June {…}

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Nicole Car, Joyce El-Khoury, Étienne Dupuis, Emily Dorn Headline Opéra de Montréal’s 2022-23 Season

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(Credit: Yan Bleney) Opéra de Montréal has announced its 2022-23 season. “Throughout the pandemic, what we heard from our audience was how eager people were to return to the opera,” said Patrick Corrigan, General Director of the Opéra de Montréal, in an official press statement. “We are convinced that this new season will not only live up to this expectation {…}

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Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for Inauguration Concert

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The Opéra de Paris has announced a cast change for its inaugural concert. The company noted that Diana Damrau is currently indisposed and has been forced to cancel her participation in the Inaugural Concert. As a result, she will be replaced by Jacquelyn Wagner, who will sing the parts of Alice Ford in “Falstaff” and the Marschallin in “Der Rosenkavalier.” Wagner {…}

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Miami Classical Music Festival Announces 2019 Season

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Miami Classical Music Festival has announced its summer 2019 season, featuring over three-hundred performers in over fifty performances. We will focus only on opera and other vocal events. Opera The season will open with a double bill of two 21st Century operas, Nico Muhly’s “Dark Sisters” and Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar.” Performances will be held in the Carl Fisher Auditorium of {…}

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Q & A: Niloufar Talebi on ‘Abraham in Flames’ & Being a Multi-Faceted Creator

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Niloufar Talebi is an author, award-winning translator, multi-disciplinary artist, and producer. She has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Atlanta Symphony, and her work has been featured at Stanford Live, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, World Literature Today, PBS Frontline, ArteEast, Bidoun, Poetry International, Rattapalax, and Mother Jones Magazine. {…}

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Curtis Opera, Kimmel Center And Opera Philadelphia Team Up For New Partnership

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The Curtis Institute of Music, Opera Philadelphia, and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts have announced a new partnership to establish Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman. The partnership will feature a spring series featuring two Curtis Opera Theatre productions at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater for the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons. For its first year, the series will include a March {…}

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 – Part 4: 12 Composers With Impact in the Opera World

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It is Hispanic Heritage month! The Latin American community has, particularly in recent years, been a major boon to the opera world, providing it with great singers and composers. This week, as part of a weekly series to celebrate the Hispanic culture and its influence on the opera world, we will turn to the great opera composers from Latin America. {…}

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A Taste Of Dawn Upshaw’s Passion For Modern Opera

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Dawn Upshaw is one of the most respected American sopranos of her generation, having sung at many of the major houses including the Metropolitan Opera. She also performed for the President of the United States. Currently, Upshaw, born on July 17, 1960, is an educator serving as the Artistic Director of the Graduate Program in Vocal Arts at the Bard College Conservatory {…}

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12 Modern Operas That Yannick Nézet-Séguin Must Bring to the Metropolitan Opera

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A few weeks ago, Metropolitan Opera Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin made the proclamation that he would be bringing newer and fresher composers to the Metropolitan Opera throughout his tenure. A few days later it was reported that among the new composers he would be bringing would be Jake Heggie’s “Dead Man Walking.” It’s a great start, considering Heggie, who {…}

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Samantha Hankey, Susan Bullock, Roland Wood & Sinéad Campbell-Wallace Lead Scottish Opera’s 2022-23 Season

Nicole Car, Joyce El-Khoury, Étienne Dupuis, Emily Dorn Headline Opéra de Montréal’s 2022-23 Season

Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for Inauguration Concert

Miami Classical Music Festival Announces 2019 Season

Q & A: Niloufar Talebi on ‘Abraham in Flames’ & Being a Multi-Faceted Creator

Curtis Opera, Kimmel Center And Opera Philadelphia Team Up For New Partnership

Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 – Part 4: 12 Composers With Impact in the Opera World

A Taste Of Dawn Upshaw’s Passion For Modern Opera

12 Modern Operas That Yannick Nézet-Séguin Must Bring to the Metropolitan Opera