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‘The Stone God’ to World Premiere This November

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Composer Nicholas Michael Smith OBE will premiere his new opera “The Stone God” at the Bloomsbury Theater. The 90-minute opera features six scenes based on the children’s story by Chinese author and director Hong Ying, who is a collaborator on the project. The cast includes Yixuan Qian, Xiaomin Cheng, Cicely He, Heming Li, Samuel Lom, Bradyn Debysingh, and Wiktoria Wizner. {…}

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San Antonio Philharmonic Postpones October Concerts Due to Lawsuit

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The San Antonio Philharmonic has postponed its October programs until the spring. The concerts originally scheduled for Oct. 18-19 will be pushed back until next spring. Executive Director Roberto Treviño confirmed the news and noted that the postponement will allow the orchestra to focus on selling tickets to its performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, set for Nov. 16-17. The postponement {…}

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Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Eugene Onegin

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(Photo: Tristram Kenton) “Eugene Onegin,” Tchaikovsky’s reworking of Pushkin’s verse novel into seven ‘lyric scenes,’ has not been seen on the Covent Garden stage for nearly a decade. Ted Huffman’s new staging would have been an event for that reason alone, but its significance was underlined by the fact that it sees one of the most striking young directors making {…}

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Théâtre du Châtelet Postpones Jonas Kaufmann’s ‘Viva Puccini’ Concert

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The Théâtre du Châtelet has postponed Jonas Kaufmann’s Viva Puccini concert to Nov. 4, 2024. The concert, which was originally set for Oct. 9, 2024, was postponed due to Kaufmann’s COVID illness. The news comes a few days after Kaufmann was forced to postpone his Oct. 6 concert at the Teatro San Carlo due to the illness. On Nov. 4, {…}

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Teatro San Carlo Postpones Jonas Kaufmann/Ludovic Tézier Concert

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The Teatro San Carlo has postponed the upcoming Jonas Kaufmann/Ludovic Tézier concert on Oct. 6, 2024. The company said that due to the sudden Covid-illness of Jonas Kaufmann, the concert Jonas Kaufmann/Ludovic Tézier has been postponed to a new date to be announced shortly. Ticket owners will be able to save the tickets they have bought to attend the concert {…}

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Gramophone Announces 2024 Award Winners

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Gramophone has announced its 2024 award winners. Here are the opera / vocal winners. The Opera Category Winner was Salzburg’s recording of “Katya Kabanova,” directed by Barrie Kosky and released by Unitel. The opera stars Corinne Winters, Evelyn Herlitzius, David Butt Philip, and Benjamin Hulett. Of the opera, the publication noted that “Above all, the success of this recording belongs {…}

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Northern Ireland Opera 2024 Review: Eugene Onégin

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(Photo: Neil Harrison) Since Cameron Menzies took on the position of artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera in 2020, the company has undergone something of a Renaissance. Although working on a slim budget, enough to fund only one main stage production each season, its imaginative and innovative approach has led to it staging a stream of high-quality short works, which {…}