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Anna Netrebko, Peter Mattei, Juan Diego Flórez, Regula Mühlemann & Rolando Villazón Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2023-24 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights of the season. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Orchestre de Paris with soloists Bertrand Chamayou, Olga Peretyatko, Pavel Petrov, Alexey Markov, and Bertrand Mandico. The program includes music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Sept. 6 & 7, 2023 Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Lisette Oropesa & Fritz Wunderlich Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to hear complete recordings of many great operas rare and standard repertoire. Here is a look at the recordings you can not miss. Theodora Lisette Oropesa, Joyce DiDonato, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Michael Spyres, and John Chest star in Erato’s new release of Händel’s “Theodora.” The album features Maxim Emelyanychev, Chief Conductor of the instrumentalists {…}

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Gramophone Awards Announces 2022 Winners

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Gramphone has announced its 2022 awards. The Bayerische Staatsoper won the Recording of the Year for its DVD of “Die Tote Stadt.” The recording also won Opera Award. The company also took home the Orchestral award from Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester’s recording of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony while Cornelius Meister and the Bayerische Staatsoper’s DVD and Blu-Ray recording of {…}

IndieOpera, Streaming

The Happenstancers Release Five Short Films Accompanying Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire

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Toronto-based chamber orchestra, The Happenstancers, has announced the release of five short films to accompany Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire.” The films feature soprano Danika Lorèn of the Canadian Opera Company and Toronto Symphony Orchestra Associate Conductor Simon Rivard. Toronto-based filmmaker Jake Kovnat was behind the camera. Kovnat shot the films in black and white, in a surrealistic style, using various creative {…}

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Musica Sacra Announces 2022 Spring Season

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Musica Sacra has announced its Spring season under Music Director Kent Tritle. Kent Tritle continues Musica Sacra’s history of engagement with new and recent repertoire, featuring the world premiere of “The Name That Never Dies,” a commissioned work by Wang Jie; the “Te Deum” of Arvo Pärt; and Viktor Kalabis’s “Canticum canticorum.” The concert will also include Brahms’s “motet Schaffe {…}

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Renée Fleming, Julia Bullock & Nadine Sierra Lead LA Philharmonic’s 2022-23 Season

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The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on operatic and choral performances. Gustavo Dudamel Leads “Songs of the Americas” in a program that will include music by Abreu, Bor, Esteve, Ortiz, and Villa-Lobos with the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Performance Dates: Sept. 30- {…}

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Juan Diego Flórez, Marina Munzo, Francesca Aspromonte, Marina Viotti Headline 2022 Festival de Pâques

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The Festival de Pâques has announced a unique new format for its 2022 edition. Taking place between April 8 and 24, the festival will feature four masterclasses and 31 concerts featuring over 800 artists. The festival will present live performances as well as develop an online presence with 17 streamed concerts. For the purposes of this article, our focus will {…}

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Lise Davidsen & Laetitia Grimaldi Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get to hear two new recordings of complete operas and will also get to discover a new voice in the opera world. Here is a look at this week’s new releases. The Snow Queen Bayerisches Staatsoper Recordings releases Hans Abrahamsen’s “The Snow Queen” on DVD. The opera, which is an adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen {…}

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Renée Fleming, Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Lise Davidsen & Ian Bostridge Lead Elbphilharmonie Hamburg’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: Operabase official website / Jiyang Chen / Simon Pauly / Ray Burmiston / Opus 3 Artists official website) The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the vocal works only. Baritone Matthias Goerne presents works by Richard Wagner alongside conductor Manfred Honeck. Performance date: Aug. 29, 2021 Soprano Diana {…}