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Opera Philadelphia Announces 6 Showcases for 2025-26 Season

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Opera Philadelphia has announced its 2025-26 season. First up is the 50th anniversary gala “Vox Ex Machina.” It will feature a unique use of technology described as a singer’s aria becoming “a physical painting in real time before the audience’s eyes.” Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2025 Damiano Michieletto will direct “Il Viaggo a Reims” in its Philadelphia premiere. The opera stars {…}
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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sabine Devieilhe, Piotr Beczała, Nicole Car, Saioa Hernández, Freddie De Tommaso, Thomas Hampson, Pretty Yende & Renée Fleming Lead Opéra National de Paris 2025-26 Season

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The Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème,” featuring Nicole Car, Yaritza Véliz, Charles Castronovo, Joshua Guerrero, Andrea Carroll, Étienne Dupuis, Xiaomeng Zhang, and Alexandros Stavrakakis. Domingo Hindoyan conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 12-Oct. 14, 2025 Cecilia Molinari leads Handel’s “Ariodante” alongside Luca Tittoto, Jacquelyn Stucker, Sabine Devieilhe, Rupert Charlesworth, Christophe Dumaux, {…}
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Florida Atlanta University Partners With International Opera Projects

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Florida Atlanta University (FAU) has announced that it will be partnering with two international opera projects. The new collaboration will bring together such institutions as Fondazione Accademia d’Arti e Mestieri dello Spettacolo Teatro alla Scala (often referred to as “La Scala”), the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico,” and the Università degli Studi di Padova. The projects are funded by {…}
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LA Opera Announces 2025 Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award Winners

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LA Opera has announced the 2025 recipients of the Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award. This year’s winners were tenor Anthony León and soprano Erica Petrocelli, two singers who are distinguished alumni of the company’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program and both are performing leading roles in the company’s current production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” The Stern Artist Award was {…}
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Jeanine Tesori & Ellis Ludwig-Leone Selected for MacDowell Artist-In-Residence Program

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MacDowell, the nation’s first artist residency program, has awarded 149 Fellowships to artists working in seven disciplines from 25 states and 15 countries for the Spring-Summer season. Composers Jeanine Tesori and Ellis Ludwig-Leone are among the selected. Artists will arrive at MacDowell’s campus in Peterborough, NH from March through August 2025 for an average stay of four weeks. The incoming {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Announces Laffont Competition Finalists

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the finalists for the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominque Laffont Competition. Following the semi-finals on March 9, nine singers will advance to the final round. The finalists will compete on the Met stage on March 16 at 3 P.M. ET. Karen Kamensek will lead the Met Orchestra and Laffont alumna and star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton {…}
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‘Adventures in Italian Opera With Fred Plotkin’ Returns This March

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(Credit: Frances Marshall) Back in 2006, renowned opera expert Fred Plotkin began hosting events at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in New York City.  The set up was straight forward – a conversation between the host, Plotkin and the guest, a well-known opera star, that also included video and audio clips throughout. The conversation would explore musical matters as well as {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Gianandrea Noseda & Nicole Heaston on Performing Barber’s ‘Vanessa’ With the National Symphony Orchestra & Aspects of Live Recordings

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 (Photo credit: Tony Hitchcock) Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize and receiving great acclaim following its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1958, Barber and Menotti’s “Vanessa” is not regularly programmed as a full work. Arias such as “Must the winter come so soon?” and “Do not utter a word” are frequently heard in recitals, but this does not do justice to this {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

American Modern Opera Company & The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 2024 Review: El Niño – Nativity Reconsidered

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Composer John Adams’ and librettist Peter Sellars’ opera, “El Niño,” debuted at Metropolitan Opera earlier this year, making this their fourth work to be produced at the Met, including “Doctor Atomic” (2008), “Nixon in China” (2011), and “The Death of Klinghoffer” (2014). OperaWire reviewed the production in addition to attending and documenting Guggenheim Museum’s “Works & Process” presentation by the {…}

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