Natalie Dessay, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sofia Nesje Enger, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin Star in Colmar International Festival 2026 Season

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(Photo credits: Vacek, Kondra, Zimmerlin) The Colmar International Festival has announced its 2026 season. This article only features opera-related events. Sopranos Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and Sofia Nesje Enger present a concert with La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra. Alain Altinoglu conducts. Performance Date: July 6, 2026 Mezzo-soprano Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin and pianist Louis Dechambre perform works by Faure, Schumann, Enesco, Mendelssohn, and Tchaïkovski. {…}

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Karen Cargill Among Soloists for San Diego Symphony’s 2025 Winter/Spring Season

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The San Diego Symphony has announced the concerts for its spring/winter 2025 season for the Jacobs Center. For this article, we will focus on the vocal performances. The only vocal performance during the season will see conductor Rafael Payare team up with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill for Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The concert will showcase Cargill’s debut with the orchestra, The {…}

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The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival Schedule Announced

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The Experiential Orchestra and Videmus present the Julia Perry Centenary Celebration and Festival in New York City. Julia Perry (1924-79) was an African-American composer, born in Lexington, Kentucky and raised in Akron, Ohio. She spent two summers at the Berkshire Music Center, studied with Luigi Dallapiccola and briefly with Nadia Boulanger. She won the Prix Fontainebleau and two Guggenheim Fellowships, {…}

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Marjorie Owens Leads The Dallas Opera’s ‘Elektra’

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The 2023-24 season continues at The Dallas Opera with Strauss’ “Elektra.” The production, which is set to be performed between Feb. 9 and Feb. 17, 2024, will feature soprano Marjorie Owens in the iconic title role, soprano Angela Meade as Chrysothemis, baritone Alfred Walker as Orest, and mezzo-soprano Jill Grove as Klytämnestra. The Dallas Opera’s production from the Lyric Opera {…}

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Charles Castronovo Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” returns to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time since 2015. The opera will be presented in David Alden with Italian maestro Carlo Rizzi leading the orchestra. The cast will include Charles Castronovo, Angela Meade, Quinn Kelsey, Liv Redpath, and Olesya Petrova. Alden’s production was first performed at the {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces New Cast Change for ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a new cast change for its production of “Un Ballo in Maschera.” The company noted that Liv Redpath will replace Nina Minasyan in the role of Oscar. Redpath made her Met debut in 2021 with the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. This season she is also set to perform Pamina in “The Magic {…}

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Teatro Real Announces Another Cast Change for ‘Turandot’

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The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced a cast change for its July 17 performance of Puccini’s “Turandot.” The company said that Maribel Ortega will sing the title role replacing Ewa Płonka. In an Instagram post, Płonka added that she had a “swollen larynx that resulted in a complete loss of voice.” Ortega has interpreted the role of Turandot at {…}

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Artist of the Week: Ewa Płonka

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As the Teatro Real de Madrid closes its 2022-23 season, the company is set to present a new production of “Turandot” with three casts that include some of the greatest interpreters of the roles. Among the cast will be Ewa Płonka, who returns to Madrid a year after her debut. Płonka has become one of the leading dramatic sopranos of {…}

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Teatro Real Announces Cast Change for ‘Turandot’

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The Teatro Real has announced a new cast change for its production of Puccini’s “Turandot.” The company said that Angela Meade will sing the title role replacing Elena Pankratova, who was originally scheduled to perform in the second cast. Meade is currently in Valencia performing the role of Elvira in “Ernani.” She is set to perform in Marseille in a {…}

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Natalie Dessay, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, Sofia Nesje Enger, Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin Star in Colmar International Festival 2026 Season

Karen Cargill Among Soloists for San Diego Symphony’s 2025 Winter/Spring Season

The Julia Perry Centenary Celebration & Festival Schedule Announced

Marjorie Owens Leads The Dallas Opera’s ‘Elektra’

Charles Castronovo Leads Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

Metropolitan Opera Announces New Cast Change for ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

Teatro Real Announces Another Cast Change for ‘Turandot’

Artist of the Week: Ewa Płonka

Teatro Real Announces Cast Change for ‘Turandot’