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Prima Classic Announces ‘Il Pirata’ with Marina Rebeka & Javier Camarena

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Prima Classic has announced a new recording of Bellini’s “Il Pirata.” The new recording will star Javier Camarena as Gualtiero, Marina Rebeka as Imogene, and Franco Vassallo as Ernesto. Fabrizio Carminati conducts L’Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania with Antonio Di Matteo, Sonia Fortunato, and Gustavo De Gennaro rounding out the cast. Camarena has performed the work {…}
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Vicenza In Lirica 2020 Review: L’Olimpiade

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(Photo: Michel Crosera) Vicenza in Lirica closed its 2020 festival with a second performance of Vivaldi’s opera “L’Olimpiade.” Written to a libretto by Metastasio in 1734, it received its premiere at Venice’s Teatro Sant’Angelo. Yet, the work struggled to establish itself and had to wait over 200 years before it eventually received a revival, this time at Siena’s Teatro dei {…}
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Lise Davidsen, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Ana Maria Martinez, Jennifer Rowley Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream this Week

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This is it. Next week will bring us into the traditional fall opera season where most opera companies would have initially started to open up their initial productions. In Europe, this trend will continue. In North America, it won’t. So the streaming will continue in unique and diverse formats. This week’s recommendations are no different. As always, don’t forget to {…}
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Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva & Carmen Giannattasio Lead La Grande Musica alla Reggia di Caserta’s 2020 Summer Season

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La Grande Musica alla Reggia di Caserta has announced a summer edition featuring some of the greatest stars in the world. Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo perform an evening entitled “Summertime” with Daniel Oren leading the Orchestra Filarmonica Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno. The performance features music by Verdi and Puccini. Performance Date: August 3, 2020 Jordi Bernàcer conducts the “Gala {…}
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Artist of the Week: Rafael Davila

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As Europe gets back to performing opera productions in unique and innovative ways, the United States continues to cancel or stream performances. However, this week the Northern Light Festival in Minnesota is taking its chances and presenting the first operatic production since the COVID-19 crisis in a new socially-distanced production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” The festival has assembled an all-star cast {…}
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Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ Opens Granada Festival in Tribute to COVID-19 Victims

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The 69th Grenada Festival opened its 32-day extravaganza of music with a solemn performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” at the Granada Cathedral. Soloists soprano Katharina Konradi, countertenor Carlos Mena, tenor Xabier Anduaga and bass-baritone Carlos Álvarez joined the Grenada Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Andrea Marcon. The Archbishopric of Granda co-produced the performance with “la Caixa” Foundation. “la Caixa” {…}
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Steven Brosvik Named President and CEO of Utah Symphony-Utah Opera

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In a decision announced by the Utah Symphony-Utah Opera on June 24th, Steven Brosvik, chief operations officer at the Nashville Symphony, has been named President and CEO of Utah’s flagship music organizations. Brosvik has held the position of COO at Nashville for 15 years and will assume his new role on August 17th. Since September 2019, USUO has been lead by interim {…}
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Kathleen Battle, Jonas Kaufmann, Luciano Pavarotti, Aida Garifullina Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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Even as we get deeper into the summer and watch theaters reopen, it is important to keep our focus on the important dialogues of racial equality taking place. We continue to recommend checking out the several online shows such as Karen Slack’s “KikiKonversations,” Kenneth Overton’s “Black Opera Live,” and “The Sitdown with LB,” hosted by Lawrence Brownlee. You can also add {…}
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Diana Damrau Announces ‘Tudor Queens’ Recording

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Diana Damrau has announced her upcoming album entitled “Tudor Queens.” The new recording sees the coloratura soprano taking on the crowns of three different Tudor queens, the central characters in operas by Donizetti. In the new album, she performs the final scenes of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena,” “Maria Stuarda,” and “Roberto Devereux.” Damrau is accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano and the {…}

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