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Opéra de Lyon Announces Changes to 2020-21 Season

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The Opéra de Lyon has announced changes to its 2020-21 season. The company, which had originally announced a new production of “Le Coq d’or” by Rimsky-Korsakov directed by Barrie Kosky, will be postponed until May of 2021. The production was originally scheduled to open the Festival Aix-En-Provence and would be brought to Lyon in October. However, plans were changed when {…}

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Davinia Rodriguez, Sabine Devieilhe, Simon Keenlyside Headline La Monnaie’s 2020-21 Season

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La Monnaie / De Munt in Brussels, Belgium has unveiled its 2020-21 season which features a number of unique operas, concerts, and recitals. Opera The opera season kicks off with the world premiere of Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s “The Time of our Singing.” The opera stars Claron McFadden, Mark. S. Doss, Peter Coleman-Wright, Levy Sekgapane, Peter Brathwaite, Abigail {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Anja Kampe

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(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) This week, the Metropolitan Opera opens a new production of “Der Fliegende Holländer” bringing a superb cast and a stellar team to one of the great German operas. One of the most anticipated parts of this new production, however, is undoubtedly the long overdue debut of soprano Anja Kampe. The German-Italian dramatic soprano is {…}

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Yale School of Music Names New Director of Opera

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The Yale School of Music has announced that Gerald Martin Moore will join the Yale faculty September 2020 as Director of Yale Opera and Coordinator of Vocal Studies for the School of Music. Moore has served as artistic associate of Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio program led by celebrated soprano Renée Fleming and has been engaged as vocal consultant to the conductor {…}

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Australian Baritone Peter Coleman-Wright to Start New Opera Company

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(Credit: Royal Opera House) Famed Australian baritone Peter Coleman-Wright has been in Canberra negotiating to become the artistic director of a new company, The National Opera, to be based in the nation’s capital. The celebrated singer has been giving a lot of thought to the problems that beset young singers in Australia and he wants to create a safe haven {…}

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Greek National Opera Unveils First Annual Report & Upcoming Collaborations

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(Source: Official Website) The Greek National Opera has announced its first annual report following the four-year, 20 million euro grant it received from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to support the organization’s outreach strategy. Per the report, the grant has enabled the GNO to collaborate with a number of international artists, including the entire creative cast behind “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk;” {…}

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Opéra National Du Rhin In Strasbourg Names General Director

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Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg has named a new general director. The company announced that Alain Perroux will become the company’s director after the death of the much esteemed Eva Kleinitz. Perroux graduated from Haute École and the University of Geneve and became a music journalist at Le Temps from 1991 to 2001. He then became a dramaturg for {…}

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Best Of 2019: OperaWire’s Top 11 Singers Of The Year

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(Credit: Catherine Ashmore/Royal Opera – Antoni Bofill/Gran Teatre del Liceu – Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) As we end the year its time to look back at the past 365-ish days and the big moments that defined 2019. It was a great year for numerous singers who broke-out and for established performers who took their careers in new directions or made important {…}