Angel Blue, Russell Thomas, Rhiannon Giddens & Renée Fleming Lead LA Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The LA Opera has announced its 2022-23 Season featuring six operatic productions including an LA premiere. The season opens with Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Amanda Woodbury and Liv Redpath sharing the title role. They will be joined by Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Alexander Birch Elliott, and Eric Owens with Lina González-Granados conducting Simon Stone’s production. Performance Dates: Sept. 17-Oct. 9, 2022 Rhiannon {…}

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Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Changes to ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ & ‘Elektra’

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced several changes to upcoming performances. The company noted that for March 4, 6, and 11, 2022 performances of “Lucia di Lammermoor,” Ioan Hotea will be singing the role of Edgardo. He will join a cast that includes Ernesto Petti, Liv Redpath, Ya-Chung Huang, and Byung Gil Kim. Meanwhile, the performances on Feb. 3 and 16, 2022 of {…}

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Peter Mattei, Freddie De Tommaso, Angela Meade & Ekaterina Semenchuk Headline Verbier Festival’s 2022 Season

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The Verbier Festival has announced its 2022 season, featuring operas and several concerts. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on vocal works. Operas Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” kicks off the festival with Olga Peretyatko as Donna Anna, Magdalena Kožená as Donna Elvira, Bogdan Volkov as Don Ottavio, Mikhail Petrenko as Leporello, Alexandros Stavrakakis as Il Commendatore, Julien {…}

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Erin Wall’s Recording of ‘Thaïs’ With Toronto Symphony Orchestra Wins Major JUNO Award

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(Credit: © Jag Gundu) The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has won the JUNO Award for Best Classical Album: Vocal or Choral for its recording of Massenet’s “Thaïs.” The recording stars Joshua Hopkins, Andrew Staples, Nathan Berg, Liv Redpath, Andrea Ludwig, Emilia Boteva, and Neil Aronoff. Sir Andrew Davis led the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Crow leading the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. {…}

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Jayme Burzette Launches Muse Artists International

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Artist manager Jayme Burzette has created Muse Artists International, a new agency where he will be Managing Director. Burzette kicked off his career in marketing and development research at the Minnesota Orchestra and The Santa Fe Opera before heading to New York City to work for Columbia Artists Management. He eventually joined IMG Artists in 2016 and worked with such {…}

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CD Review: Chandos’ ‘Thaïs’

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Massenet’s opera “Thaïs,” set in 4th century Alexandria, focuses on two individuals with diametrically opposed outlooks and lifestyles. There is the hedonistic courtesan Thaïs, who seeks only love—although for no longer than a week at a time—and there is a cenobite monk named Athanaël, an ascetic, whose aim is to turn the courtesan to the path of righteousness. While he {…}

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Andris Nelsons, Kristine Opolais & Ildar Abdrazakov Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Tatyana Vlasova) The Boston Symphony Orchestra announce its 2020-21 season noting that anything can change due to the coronavirus pandemic. As always we highlight the vocal performances in this season announcement. The Beethoven Cycle concludes with Andris Nelsons leading the composer’s Ninth Symphony with soloists Amanda Majeski, Tamara Mumford, Pavel Černoch, Kwangchul Youn, and Tanglewood Festival Chorus. The program {…}

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Isabel Leonard, Gianandrea Noseda & Kate Lindsey Highlight National Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Fay Fox) The National Symphony Orcehstra has announced its 2020-21 season. For this article, we will highlight the vocal performances. The season opens with Gianandrea Noseda conducting Isabel Leonard in a program that includes Ravel’s Boléro, arias from “Carmen,” Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol. Performance Dates: Sept. 26, 2020 Gianandrea Noseda conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis {…}

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Kate Lindsey, Erin Morley & J’Nai Bridges Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2020-21 Season

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The New York Philharmonic has announced its new 2020-21 season, featuring number of orchestral and vocal works. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on vocal works. Here is a look: In time for the holiday season, Fabio Biondi conducts concert performances of Händel’s “Messiah” with soloists soprano Liv Redpath, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, tenor John Matthew Myers {…}

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Angel Blue, Russell Thomas, Rhiannon Giddens & Renée Fleming Lead LA Opera’s 2022-23 Season

Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Changes to ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ & ‘Elektra’

Peter Mattei, Freddie De Tommaso, Angela Meade & Ekaterina Semenchuk Headline Verbier Festival’s 2022 Season

Erin Wall’s Recording of ‘Thaïs’ With Toronto Symphony Orchestra Wins Major JUNO Award

Jayme Burzette Launches Muse Artists International

CD Review: Chandos’ ‘Thaïs’

Andris Nelsons, Kristine Opolais & Ildar Abdrazakov Lead Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

Isabel Leonard, Gianandrea Noseda & Kate Lindsey Highlight National Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

Kate Lindsey, Erin Morley & J’Nai Bridges Lead New York Philharmonic’s 2020-21 Season