Cantata Singers Unveils 2025-26 Season

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(Image Source – Cantata Singers Official Website) Cantata Singers has unveiled its 2025-26 season. First up is the “Boston Choral Festival: To the Hands” at Old South Church. Headlining the performance is Caroline Shaw’s eponymous “To the Hands.” The program will feature the ensemble working alongside students from local high school choirs. Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2025 Then comes “Zemlinsky’s {…}

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Roderick Williams, Fatma Said, Louise Alder, Florian Boesch Among Headliners of Leeds Lieder Festival’s 20th Season

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(Photo credit: Bort, Williams, & Porter) The 2025 Leeds Lieder Festival has announced its programming. The 20th anniversary season taking place under the artistic direction of Joseph Middleton. This year’s theme is “Song, the Secret of Eternity.” Recitals Mezzo-soprano Patricia Nolz and pianist Joseph Middleton present the first recital, “Lunchtime Opening.” Performance Date: April 5, 2025 Baritone Florian Boesch performs {…}

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Opera Meets Film: The Follies of Acting Singers in Paolo Gep Cucco & Davide Livermore’s ‘The Opera!’

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What happens when a rather questionable story where good intentions end up futile in the face of capricious behavior is re-conceptualized? “The Opera!” by directors Paolo Gep Cucco and Davide Livermore. It is a strange sort of film where the two central characters are played by opera singers (Orpheus, Valentino Buzza and Eurydice, Mariam Battistelli) who seem woefully under-prepared to {…}

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The English Concert Announces 2025 Spring Season

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(Photo credit: Mark Allan) The English Concert announces the details of its spring 2025 spring season. Soprano Lucy Crowe performs a program of works by Handel and Corelli, under the baton of The English Concert’s founder, Trevor Pinnock. Performance Date: January 30, 2025 (Wigmore Hall) Up next sopranos Isabel Schicketanz and Joanna Songi, mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot, tenor Samuel Boden, and {…}

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Britten Pears Arts Announces Autumn 2024 Season

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(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) Britten Pears Arts has released the details of its Autumn 2024 season. Only opera and vocal events are included in this article. Singers and instrumentalists from the Composition and Performance course present Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” in a masterclass led by soprano Claire Booth and conductor Jonathan Berman. Performance Date: September 17, 2024 (Peter Pears Recital {…}

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Fleur Barron & Myra Huang to Present ‘HOME(land)’

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Fleur Barron and Myra Huang are set to present “HOME(land) at the 92nd Street Y. The concert, which is set for April 27, 2024 at Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center, will juxtapose works by Eastern and Western creators including Brahms, Chen Yi, Berg, Ives, Takemitsu, Mussorgsky, Huang Ruo, Alex Ho, and Charles Trenet. The concert will be streamed online {…}

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Audra McDonald & Suzanna Guzmán Named LA Opera Legacy Ambassadors

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(Photo credit: The Valley Music Hall of Fame & Javier Armijo) LA Opera named soprano Audra McDonald and mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzmán in the 2023-24 class of Legacy Ambassadors. Last season, LA Opera launched the Legacy Ambassador program, an initiative to forge deep, authentic and longstanding relationships with diverse communities and the key thought-leaders who influence them. The ambassadors chosen are {…}

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Joyce DiDonato & Michael Spyres Lead Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg 2023-24 Season

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(Photo credit: Marco Borrelli & Simon Pauly) The Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg has announced its 2023-24 season starring Joyce DiDonato and Michael Spyres. “Don Giovanni in the Underworld” is presented by the Choir of the Opéra national du Rhin. Performance Dates: September 16-21, 2023 Ernst van Tiel conducts the Strasbourg Philharmonic Choir in “Amadeus Live.” Performance Dates: October 13-14, 2023 {…}

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Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Anita Rachvelishvilli, Matthew Polenzani Lead Opéra de Paris 2021-22 Season

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(Photo Credits: Emma Birski / OnP) Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is the full slate. Operas “The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas” by Marina Abramovic will open the season. The showcase stars Nadezhda Karyazina, Selene Zanetti, Leah Hawkins, Adela Zaharia, Lauren Fagan, Gabriella Reyes, and Hera Hyesang Park. Yoel Gamzou conducts. Performance dates: Sep. 1 {…}

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Cantata Singers Unveils 2025-26 Season

Roderick Williams, Fatma Said, Louise Alder, Florian Boesch Among Headliners of Leeds Lieder Festival’s 20th Season

Opera Meets Film: The Follies of Acting Singers in Paolo Gep Cucco & Davide Livermore’s ‘The Opera!’

The English Concert Announces 2025 Spring Season

Britten Pears Arts Announces Autumn 2024 Season

Fleur Barron & Myra Huang to Present ‘HOME(land)’

Audra McDonald & Suzanna Guzmán Named LA Opera Legacy Ambassadors

Joyce DiDonato & Michael Spyres Lead Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg 2023-24 Season

Angel Blue, Renée Fleming, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Anita Rachvelishvilli, Matthew Polenzani Lead Opéra de Paris 2021-22 Season