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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christine Goerke & Joyce DiDonato Lead Carnegie Hall’s 2020-21 Season

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Carnegie Hall has announced its 2020-21 season featuring some of the greatest soloists and conductors in the world. For this article we will highlight the vocal performances of the season. Orchestras  The season opens with the LA Philharmonic performing John Adams’ Tromba Lontana and Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Selections from Peer Gynt. Gustavo Dudamel conducts with soloists Liv Redpath and {…}

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Leah Crocetto & Will Liverman Headline Austin Opera’s 2020-21 Season

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The Austin Opera has announced its 2020-21 season featuring three main stage productions and an Opera ATX production. Here is a look at the new season: The season opens with Opera ATX, which is now in its third season. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Penelope” will be presented at The North Door, an iconic performance space on Austin’s East Side. This production, {…}

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Festival Puccini Di Torre Del Lago Announces New Artistic Director

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Giorgio Battistelli has been named Artistic director of the Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago. Giorgio de Ghingaro, il sindaco di Viareggio, and Maria Laura Simonetti, the president of the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano, announced the news which also revealed that Alberto Veronesi will become music director. In a press Battistelli said, “In this new role that I take charge of {…}

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Seattle Opera 2019-20 Review: Eugene Onegin

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(Photo Credit: Sunny Martini / Seattle Opera) Seattle Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” has travelled around, being co-owned by regional opera companies in Kansas City, Honolulu, Detroit, Atlanta, and Seattle, with costumes rented from Santa Fe Opera. And while it was musically and emotionally rewarded, the mounting on January 11 was visually staid. Roads Not Taken For Tchaikovsky’s opera {…}

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Prototype Festival 2020 Review: Blood Moon

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East met West during Wednesday evening’s performance of Garret Fisher and Ellen McLaughlin’s “Blood Moon,” a chamber opera for three voices staged at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York, one of six opera/musical theater productions featured in this year’s Prototype Festival. The show was the third in its world premiere run. Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, the creative {…}

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OperaVision Preview 2020: Latvian National Opera & Ballet to Present Kalniņš’ ‘I Played, I Danced’

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OperaVision will present Kalniņš’ “I Played, I Danced” live from the Latvian National Opera and Ballet on Jan. 31, 2020. The opera, which was composed in 1977, will star Raimonds Bramanis, Marlēna Keine, Jānis Apeinis, Krišjānis Norvelis, Rihards Mačanovskis, Ilona Bagele, Rinalds Kandalincevs, Juris Ādamsons, Laura Grecka, Evija Martinsone, and Andžella Goba, among others. Andžella Goba will conduct a production {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Unveils Semifinalists for Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias

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The Houston Grand Opera has announced the semifinalists for the 32nd annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias. The event, which will take place on Feb. 7, 2020 at 7 p.m. at the Wortham Theater Center. Sopranos led the semifinalists with a total of seven participants – Tatiana Carlos, Lindsey Chinn, Amani Cole-Felder, Caitlin Gotimer, Emily Kern, {…}