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Special Features

Best of 2019 – OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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(Credit: Marty Sohl/Karen Almond-Metropolitan Opera/Ken Howard-Santa Fe Opera/ Gianfranco Rota-Donizetti Opera) We hope that the end of your 2019 is a prosperous one and that the start of 2020 is even better. As we look forward to the next calendar year, we are taking some time to reflect on the opera performances that defined 2019 for many of us. As {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Arianna Vendittelli On The Importance & Challenges Of Singing ‘Ermione,’ Interpretation & Career Development

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Arianna Vendittelli’s career is one that most singers would dream of. She has an established reputation in the Mozart, Rossini and baroque repertoire, singing at the highest level in such roles as roles such as Fiordiligi, Zerlina, Cleopatra, Serse, Eurydice and many more. Moreover, she has been guided by such venerated artists as Ottavio Dantone, Riccardo Muti and Alessandro De {…}

Special Features

Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

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Yes, it’s that time of the year where we wax poetic about transformative experiences we have had over the course of the last 300 or so days. Sometimes we curate these experiences as rankings to fuel some individual emotions, and at other moments we simply do what we are doing with this piece – let a few different people chip {…}

Special Features

Analysis: The Standouts From the Pietro Antonio Cesti International Singing Competition For Baroque Opera

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The winner of this year’s “Pietro Antonio Cesti” International Singing Competion for Baroque Opera was won by the 30-year-old, Swiss soprano, Marie Lys. Established in 2010 by Alessandro De Marchi, the incumbent artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival for Early Music, the competition has become an integral part of the festival, and certainly one of the most important singing competitions {…}