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Jakub Józef Orliński & Sabine Devieilhe Lead Opera de Lille’s 2018-19 Season

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The Opera de Lille has announced its 2018-19 Season featuring a number of opera staples and rarely performed works. The season will include a number of ballets and concerts, but for this season announcement we will only concentrate on the operatic highlights. Productions  The season opens with Handel’s “Rodelinda” featuring Jeanine De Bique in the title role. The cast also includes Tim {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, & Jonas Kaufmann To Be Featured At Theatre Des Champs-Élysées 2018-19 Season

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The Théâtre Champes-Élysées has announced its 2018-19 season. Let’s break it down Staged Productions  Jérémie Rhorer conducts a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” with Deborah Warner directing. Vannina Santoni stars in the title role alongside Saimir Pirgu and Laurent Naouri.  Performance Dates: Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2018 Katie Mitchell directs Strauss’ “Ariadne Auf Naxos” with Camila Nylund and Roberto Sacca. Kate Lindsey and Olga Pudova round out {…}

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Bayerische Staatsoper 2025-26 Review: Alcina

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(Photo: G Schied) Händel’s “Alcina,” first performed in London in 1735 and based on episodes from Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso” (1532), ranks among the composer’s supreme achievements. Far more than a succession of dazzling da capo arias, it is a profound meditation on love’s capacity to delude, possess and ultimately destroy. On the enchanted island of the sorceress Alcina, men who {…}

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Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg 2026 Review: Mozart’s ‘Coronation Mass’

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(Photo Credit: Claudia Höhne) To be fair, the artistic boundaries of sacred music have been giving the church a headache since the Renaissance. One only has to recall Josquin Desprez and his peers, who cheekily built entire masses around secular tunes — sometimes even seductive ones — to understand why the clergy were constantly reaching for their smelling salts. By {…}

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Angel Blue, Nicky Spence, Joyce DiDonato, Leah Hawkins, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Charles Castronovo Lead BBC Proms’ 2026 Season

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2026 season. Here are the vocal performances. The festival opens on with pianist Yunchan Lim and tenor Thomas Atkins joining Dalia Stasevska and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for music by Ravel, Copland, Gershwin and Finzi. There will also be a world premiere by Josephine Stephenson. Performance Date: July 17, 2026 Gianandrea Noseda leads Beethoven’s Symphony {…}

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La Monnaie Teams Up with STIB / MIVB for ‘Medusa Moves’

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La Monnaie has announced “Medusa Moves,” a participatory public campaign developed in collaboration with STIB/MIVB and the City of Brussels, timed to the world premiere of “Medusa,” a new opera by composer Iain Bell and director Lydia Steier. The campaign centers on a choreography created by Brussels-based dancer and choreographer Jeny BSG (Jeny Bonsenge), who invites the public to learn {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Aleksandra Kurzak, Lidia Fridman & Erin Morley Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2026-27 Season

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The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Gustavo Dudamel conducts music by Di Castri, Adams, and Prokofiev. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-19, 2026 Gustavo Dudamel conducts an inaugural gala. Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2026 Gustavo Dudamel conducts “Tosca” with Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, and Ludovic Tézier in Carnegie Hall. Performance Dates: Nov. 13 & 15, {…}

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Opernhaus Zürich Launches New Music Festival

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Opernhaus Zürich announces its new festival, “Zürich Baroque.” The first edition of “Zürich Baroque” aims to bring together opera productions, concerts, chamber music, family formats and performative projects in a concentrated panorama of historically informed performance practice. Over 10 days, the festival will give the premiere of Jean-Marie Leclair’s “Scylla et Glaucus,” present Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” and “Aci, {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Rebeka, Ludovic Tézier, Aigul Akhmetshina, Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Klaus Florian Vogt, Benjamin Bernheim & J’Nai Bridges Lead Carngie Hall’s 2026-27 Season

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Carnegie Hall has announced its 2026-27 season featuring a star studded lineup. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Jonas Kaufmann opens the season with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko in an all-Italian program that includes works by Verdi, Respighi, Cilea, Giordano, and Leoncavallo. Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2026 The Sphinx Virtuosi is joined by J’Nai Bridges for {…}