Q & A: Aprile Millo On Her London Debut & Her Return To ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’

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Newsday once described Aprile Millo as “the high priestess of that old time operatic religion.” Indeed, Millo is still one of the few remaining divas of the past who continues to thrill audiences with her passionate and intense voice and whose sheer honesty continues to bring audiences back to a different time in the opera chronology. A huge exponent of {…}

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Artist Profile: Tenor Johan Botha, South Africa’s Most Recorded Opera Singer

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Johan Botha, born on August 19, 1965, did not get the chance to live a long life. But he left a major impact on those who heard the South African tenor sing. Born in Rustenburg, the tenor trained with Jarmilla Tellenger between ages 10-17. After serving in the South African Air Force, he continued to study voice. Then things went {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Leonardo Capalbo Talks ‘Rigoletto,’ ‘La Rondine & His Role Debut As ‘Don Carlo’

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Over the past years Italian-American tenor Leonardo Capalbo has garnered international acclaim for performing in some of the leading theaters such as The Royal Opera Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid, La Monnaie, Berlin State Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, L’Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Regio di Torino, the Canadian Opera Company, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, {…}

News

Leonardo Capalbo To Replace Benjamin Bernheim At Bremen Musikfest

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Leonardo Capalbo will make a previously unscheduled debut at the Bremen Musikfest as the title character in “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The festival announced that Benjamin Bernheim was forced to cancel the production due to scheduling conflicts with the Zurich Opera. As a result, Capalbo will make his debut at the festival on Sept. 1, 2018, alongside Maestro Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre. The {…}

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Artist Profile: American Soprano Sharon Sweet

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Sharon Sweet was born on August 16, 1951, in New York City. Her father was a tenor who had stopped his career after serving in World War II. She would start her musical studies as a pianist though eventually, she would wind up teaching music in a public school. She would win the Metropolitan Opera auditions and then started studying {…}

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Artist Profile: Mezzo Hanna Schwarz, A Major Wagnerian

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Mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz, born on August 15, 1943, has had a successful career that hasn’t always seen her in the limelight. She studied psychology and voice in Hamburg, before becoming a member of the Staatsoper Hannover. In a career marked by her interpretations of Wagner, it is surprising to see her first major success come as Maddalena in “Rigoletto.” But {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Interview: Sesto Quatrini On His Conducting Style & Career Ambitions

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Sesto Quatrini made his Italian debut, conducting Verdi’s “Un giorno di regno,” at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, July 20, 2017, a little over one year ago. Since then he has debuted at, amongst other venues, La Fenice and Verona. It has been a rapid rise for the young conductor who, at the age of 34, seems destined for the {…}

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Artist Profile: Dramatic Soprano Deborah Voigt

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Deborah Voigt is one of America’s most renowned artists. The soprano was born on August 4, 1960 to a religious family in 1960. Her career took a gradual course, though the soprano rather openly talks about her problems with confidence and her weight issues throughout her formative years in her biography “Call Me Debbie, a must-read in which opens about {…}

News

Matthew Rose To Become Artistic Consultant For Met Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced that bass Matthew Rose has been appointed as the Artistic Consultant to the company’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Rose, of course, is an acclaimed artist who has performed all around the world at such houses as the Met, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and English National Opera. {…}

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Q & A: Aprile Millo On Her London Debut & Her Return To ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’

Artist Profile: Tenor Johan Botha, South Africa’s Most Recorded Opera Singer

Q & A: Leonardo Capalbo Talks ‘Rigoletto,’ ‘La Rondine & His Role Debut As ‘Don Carlo’

Leonardo Capalbo To Replace Benjamin Bernheim At Bremen Musikfest

Artist Profile: American Soprano Sharon Sweet

Artist Profile: Mezzo Hanna Schwarz, A Major Wagnerian

Interview: Sesto Quatrini On His Conducting Style & Career Ambitions

Artist Profile: Dramatic Soprano Deborah Voigt

Matthew Rose To Become Artistic Consultant For Met Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Program