Anna Netrebko, Sondra Radvanovsky, Benjamin Bernheim & Ludovic Tézier Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2023-24 Season

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The Opéra de Paris has announced its 2023-24 Season featuring many new productions and many of the great stars in the world. Alexander Soddy conducts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with a cast that includes Peter Mattei, Kyle Ketelsen, Adela Zaharia, Julia Kleiter, Ben Bliss, Cyrille Dubois, John Relyea, Gaëlle Arquez, Tara Erraught, Alex Esposito, Bogdan Talos, Guilhem Worms, Ying Fang, and {…}

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Marianne Crebassa, Brian Jagde, Christian Van Horn & Franco Fagioli Lead Théâtre des Champs-Elysées’ 2023-24 Season

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The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées has announced its 2023-24 season featuring opera, opera in concert, and recitals. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Opera Thomas Hengelbrock conducts Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” in a production by Damiano Michieletto. Marina Viotti, Levy Sekgapane, Edward Nelson, and Peter Kálmán. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-19, 2023 Mozary’s “Die Zauberflöte” will be conducted {…}

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Renée Fleming, Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, Sondra Radvanovsky, Lawrence Brownlee, Ailyn Pérez Headline 17th Season of PBS’ ‘Great Performances at the Met’

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PBS has announced that it will begin broadcasting the 17th season of its “Great Performances at the Met” series this March. In total, audiences will be able to check out 10 new opera performances with the first being “The Hours.” The opera stars Joyce DiDonato, Renée Fleming, and Kelli O’Hara with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. Christine Baranski hosts. Broadcast Date: March {…}

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Rafael Davila, Ólafur Sigurdarson & Ellie Dehn Lead Opera Colorado 2023-24 Season

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Opera Colorado has announced its 2023-24 Season featuring three productions. “Our 41st season offers something for opera lovers and the opera curious alike, including perennial favorites, epic tales, and evocative music,” said Greg Carpenter, The Ellie Caulkins General & Artistic Director. “I am thrilled to bring Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman to life for the first time since 1997 with a {…}

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Bach Festival Announces 2023 Season

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Winter Park, Florida’s Bach Festival has announced its 88th season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal showcases. First up will be “Spiritual Spaces,” featuring John V. Sinclair and Members of the Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra. Performance Dates: Feb. 4, 2023 Next up is “Odes and a Hymn for St. Cecilia by Purcell, {…}

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Denyce Graves, Kenneth Kellogg & Vanessa Goikoetxea Lead Seattle Opera’s 2023-24 Season

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The Seattle Opera has announced the 2023-24 season featuring four productions. Productions Wagner’s “Das Rheingold“ is set to open the season with Greer Grimsley as Wotan, Frederick Ballentine, Michael Mayes, and the Seattle Opera debut of internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. The cast is rounded by Martin Bakari, Melody Wilson, Kenneth Kellogg, Peixin Chen, and Sarah Larsen. Performance Dates: August {…}

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Best of 2022: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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It’s that time of the year. A time when we can look forward to what’s to come, but also a moment to reflect on all we’ve experienced. And as has become the tradition here at OperaWire, we have asked our writers to select their choices for the opera performances that truly marveled them in 2022. So without further ado, we’ll {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) (This review is for the performance on Oct. 26, 2022) The last time the Met Opera presented “Peter Grimes” was in 2008. The world has certainly changed quite a bit in that time and somehow, that timeless work’s themes seem all the more relevant than ever before. The opera opens on the trial of {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

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Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” is a tragic satire that continues to shed light on the very real and present suffering of the human spirit due to ongoing abuse of power and repression. To say this opera is still relevant, is obvious. However, to take it a step further and realize this opera’s history is a warning, reveals Shostakovich’s {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Sondra Radvanovsky, Benjamin Bernheim & Ludovic Tézier Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2023-24 Season

Marianne Crebassa, Brian Jagde, Christian Van Horn & Franco Fagioli Lead Théâtre des Champs-Elysées’ 2023-24 Season

Renée Fleming, Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczala, Sondra Radvanovsky, Lawrence Brownlee, Ailyn Pérez Headline 17th Season of PBS’ ‘Great Performances at the Met’

Rafael Davila, Ólafur Sigurdarson & Ellie Dehn Lead Opera Colorado 2023-24 Season

Bach Festival Announces 2023 Season

Denyce Graves, Kenneth Kellogg & Vanessa Goikoetxea Lead Seattle Opera’s 2023-24 Season

Best of 2022: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Peter Grimes

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk