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Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: La Bohème

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(Photos: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s “La Bohème” celebrated a new season of success thanks to Kensho Watanabe at the podium and a stunning cast of favorites, including Ailyn Pérez, Dmytro Popov, Boris Pinkhasovich, Bogdan Talos, Emily Pogorelc, Gihoon Kim, and Donald Maxwell. Conductor Kensho Watanabe’s Midas Touch Conductor Kensho Watanabe, who made his Met debut with {…}
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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music 2024 Review: The 15th Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition

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  (Photo credit: © Wibmer) The Pietro Antonio Cesti Competition is a major annual highlight in the world of baroque opera that takes place at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, featuring young baroque singers from all over the world. This year’s competition was full of exciting and inspiring moments that OperaWire had the honor of experiencing live. The audience {…}
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Maria Brea, Eugenia Forteza, Wagner Pástor, & Antonio Azpiri in Westminster Faculty Recital Series ‘Ritmos y Raíces: Celebrating Latin American Music’

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(Photo credits: Brea & Osber) Westminster has announced its Faculty Recital Series “Ritmos y Raíces: Celebrating Latin American Music.” This program features works by contemporary composers Guido López Gavillán, Miguel Astor, Darwin Aquino, Johanny Navarro, and Ernesto Cordero, along with songs from Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Performers include sopranos Maria Brea and Andrea Salazar; mezzo-sopranos Melisa Bonetti {…}
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Monteverdi Festival Cremona 2024 Review: Polittico Monteverdiano

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(Photo: Paolo Cisi) For what was the third presentation in a crowded evening of events, Cremona’s Monteverdi Festival scheduled a performance of a selection of the composer’s madrigals, culminating with “Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.” It was, however, not presented as a concert but as a staged performance in the form of an opera, entitled “Polittico Monteverdiano,” put together {…}
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Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Celebrating 22 Years of Sir Antonio Pappano

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A truly packed house, a cast of operatic luminaries and a program of works chosen and compiled by Maestro Pappano himself; a Gala, fit for a KING, surely? Which is just as well because His Royal Highness King Charles III was in the audience as a truly surprise guest of honor, courtesy of a massive covert security operation that even {…}
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Royal Opera House’s Antonio Pappano Defends Anna Netrebko, Speaks Out Against Cancel Culture

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Sir Antonio Pappano is defending his choice to work with Anna Netrebko in the upcoming production of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda” at the Salzburg Easter Festival. In a statement to Times UK during the Royal Opera House’s 2023-24 season announced, the Music Director said “There’s a lot of inept cancelling going on in the world”  and added that Netrebko was a {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Der Rosenkavalier

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(Credit: Ken Howard) Over the past few seasons, few artists have gotten as much buzz as soprano Lise Davidsen. She’s been called “A Voice in a Million” by none other than Antonio Pappano and she’s become a major Met fixture, garnering top billing in numerous Strauss operas over the past few seasons. Perhaps none came with greater than anticipation than {…}
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TENET Vocal Artists to Present ‘Polifonía de las Américas’

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TENET Vocal Artists is set to present “Polifonía de las Américas” on Oct. 22, 2022 at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church in New York City. The program will feature Latin American works by such composers as Francisco López Capillas, Juan de Lienas, Francisco Guerrero, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Antonio de Salazar, and Tomás Luis de Victoria. Performers will include {…}

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