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Sondra Radvanovsky, Diana Damrau & Jonas Kaufmann Headline Baden-Baden Festival’s 2019-20 Season

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The Baden-Baden Festival has announced its 2019-20 season with a number of great performers and concerts. For this article, we have only concentrated on vocal and opera events. here is a look. Fall Festival  John Neumeier directs Gluck’s “Orfeo et Eurydice” with Alessandro de Marchi conducting. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-19, 2019 Dorothee Mields sings a program centered on Der Orpheus-Mythos {…}

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BREAKING NEWS: Valery Gergiev To Conduct Verdi ‘Requiem’ In Memory Of Tupolev-154 Victims

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On Dec. 29, Valery Gergiev will lead the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus, the Student Chorus of the Popov Academy of Choral Art and the State Academic Kozhevnikov Chorus of the Moscow Region at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Verdi’s “Requiem.” The soloists will include Tatiana Serjan (soprano), Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano), Najmiddin Mavlyanov (tenor), Ildar Abdrazakov (bass). The company announced that the concert would “be dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Tupolev-154 air {…}

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Peter Gelb Claims Anna Netrebko Had Conversations with the Kremlin in 2022

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Peter Gelb is claiming that Anna Netrebko had contact with the Kremlin back in 2022 before getting fired from the Metropolitan Opera. While on his trip to Ukraine, the Met’s General Manager was interviewed by the Ukrainian Press and was asked about the pending lawsuit against the Met and himself. He said he would not compromise or settle and said, {…}

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Federal Judge Moves Forward with Anna Netrebko’s Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Metropolitan Opera

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Anna Netrebko’s gender discrimination lawsuit is moving ahead. A federal judge Annalisa Torres ruled to move ahead citing Netrebko’s examples of male Putin-connected opera singers whom the Met treated more favorably. Torres wrote in a 23-page ruling, “For example, she alleges that the male opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov performed at political events, ‘including at least one event at which Putin {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Don Carlo’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its production of “Don Carlo.” The company announced that Anita Rachvelishvili will no longer sing the role of Eboli and will be replaced by Yulia Matochkina. Matochkina recently made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in a production of “Rigoletto” during the 2021-22 season. This past summer she performed in productions {…}