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Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Verbier Festival’s Founder Martin Engstroem on 30th Anniversary

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(Photo © Aline Paley) Thirty years ago, Martin Engstroem found himself in a place he had always dreamed of. During his formative years in music management, he dreamt of helping build the careers of up-and-coming artists and creating a unique experience. He is full of ideas and works alongside the biggest names in the classical music business, mainly conductors and {…}

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Robert LePage’s Production of ‘The Nightingale’ to Headline Adelaide Festival 2024

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(Picture Credit: Michael Cooper/COC) The Adelaide Festival has announced the centerpiece for its 2024 season. Per an official press release, Robert LePage’s production of Stravinsky’s “The Nightingale” will be the headliner at the festival. It will be presented between March 1 – 6, 2024. “It is a true joy to deconstruct a work and explore the boundless potential of opera,” {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Julie Fuchs On Her Current Role As La Comtesse Adèle At The Rossini Opera Festival

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(Photo: Olivier Metzger) One of the many stars appearing at this summer’s Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro is the French soprano Julie Fuchs, who is making her festival debut as La Comtesse Adèle in “Le Comte Ory.” Known for her dazzling singing, versatile acting and innate musicality she has wowed audiences in both concert halls and theaters across Europe in {…}

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Soprano Alexandra Flood to Preview Queensland Art Song Festival

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Soprano Alexandra Flood is set to present a preview performance for the Queensland Art Song Festival. The soprano will appear in recital on August 7, 2022 at the Queensland Conservatorium at 5 p.m. The event will be free to all audiences. The Queensland Art Song Festival is set to inaugurate in winter of 2023 aimed at promoting art song performance {…}

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Festival Musica Strasbourg Unveils 2022 Season

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The Festival Musica Strasbourg has unveiled its 2022 season, which opens on Sept. 15 and runs through Oct. 2. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Emilio Pomárico will conduct the Ensemble Resonanz in Georges Aperghis’ “Migrants.” The work will be headlined by mezzo-soprano Christina Daletska, soprano Agata Zubel, and alto Geneviève Strosser. {…}

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Adelaide Festival Announces Centerpiece Opera

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Australia’s Adelaide Festival has announced that Barrie Kosky’s production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Golden Cockerel” will be the centerpiece of the 2022 program. The production, which will open in March 2022, will feature Venera Gimadieva, Vasily Efimov, Andrei Popov, Samuel Dundas, Pavlo Hunka, and Mischa Shelomianski. The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will be led by former Music Director, Arvo Volmer. The {…}

News, Streaming

Lea Desandre & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead Baroque Night Livestream From Aix-en-Provence

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(Credits: © Julien Benhamou / Kamil Szkopik) The Festival de Pâques will present a night of baroque music to be live-streamed on March 31, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. The performance will star mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński. The two singers will perform works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Giulio Caccini, Henry Purcell, Georg Friedrich Händel, Thomas Dunford, Reynaldo Hahn, {…}

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‘Tristan und Isolde’ to be Performed by Festival Aix-en Provence

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The Festival Aix-en-Provence has announced the first production of its 2021 season. The new production will feature Sir. Simon Rattle conducting the Wagner opera with a cast that includes Nina Stemme as Isolde and Stuart Skelton as Tristan as well as Jamie Barton, Franz-Josef Selig, and Josef Wagner. Simon Stone will conduct the production, which is also set to feature {…}

Special Features

The Xen of Opera: The Treasures of the 2020 Adelaide Festival

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(Credit: James Glossop) Opera is quivering, twisting, and turning. Could it be that we are in an opera renaissance? There is a new blood pulsing through its veins. Opera and theater makers are pulling at its heart, resuscitating our interest and taking us to diverse locations with as yet unclassifiable languages and forms. The Xen of Opera looks at the {…}