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Amelie Tatti, Inna Kalugina, Sandrine Piau, Arnaud Gluck, Lucile Richardot Headline Salle Cortot’s November 2024 Slate

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The Salle Cortot in Paris has announced its slate for November 2025. Headlining the vocal performances on offer is “Canzoni di Corsica è Ucraina,” with sopranos Amelie Tatti and Inna Kalugina. They are joined by instrumentalists Camille Theveneau, Sacha Pietri, Clotilde Boussange, and Hugo Pietri. Performance Date: Nov. 14, 2024 Next up is “Amore Langueo,”  a concert featuring works by Kapsberger, {…}

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Silvia Frigato & Heather Newhouse Lead the 2024 Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella

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(Photo credit: Nikolai Schukoff) The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has announced its line up for the 2024 season. This article only features vocal works. Opening the festival, artistic director Andrea De Carlo leads the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in Stradella’s oratorio “San Giovanni Battista.” Soloist are sopranos Silvia Frigato and Dorota Szczepańska, countertenor Danilo Pastore, tenor Roberto Manuel Zangari, and bass {…}

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Tomasz Konieczny, Anthony Clark Evans, Elena Tsallagova & Sinéad Campbell Wallace Lead Staatstheater Wiesbaden’s 2024-25 Season

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The Staatstheater Wiesbaden has announced its 2024-25 Season. Premieres Ligeti’s “Le Grand Macabre” will be conducted by GMD Leo McFall with Pınar Karabulut directing. Seth Carico, Cornel Frey, Galina Benevich, Josefine Mindus, Sion Goronwy, Ariana Lucas, Aaron Cawley, Hovhannes Karapetyan, Inna Fedorii, Fleuranne Brockway, Wooseok Shim, James Young, and Fabian-Jakob Balkhausen starring. Premiere Date: Sept. 28, 2024 Christian Rohrbach conducts {…}

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Handel Hendrix House Announces April – June 2024 Showcases

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Handel Hendrix House has announced a series of performances for this Spring. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances on offer. Every Thursday in April, the house’s Assistant Curator Olwen Foulkes will present “Messiah” talk. The sessions kick off at 2 p.m. and will have a duration of 20 minutes. “Händel composed ‘Messiah’ in this house over just {…}

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Stephen Friedman Gallery & 21C Media Group Present Nicholas Phan & Joshua Stauffer in Recital at ‘Titled’ Exhibition

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The Stephen Friedman Gallery and 21C Media Group will present tenor Nicholas Phan and lutenist Joshua Stauffer in a program inspired by Sarah Ball’s exhibition “Titled.” The performance, scheduled for March 9, 2024 from 6:15-7 p.m., is free with tickets to the exhibitions. The program will feature music by women composers from the baroque era, including Barbara Strozzi. In her {…}

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Four Essential Operas by Women Composers

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(Photo credit: Christophe-Abramowitz) Throughout time, women have routinely been at the bad end of the deal when it came to composing, performing, or really anything that has to do with music. However, as we now know that didn’t mean women composers, performers, critics, and everything in between didn’t exist. Actually, the opposite! Composers like Hildegard von Bingen, Barbara Strozzi, Clara {…}

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RNS Moves to Premiere New Works by Héloïse Werner

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(Photo credit: Tynesight Photographic) RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble featuring disabled musicians and non-disabled members of Royal Northern Sinfonia, is set to premiere Héloïse Werner’s “Wander.” Soprano and composer Werner’s newly commissioned work “Wander” is inspired by city life. The composer recreates the sensation of strolling through a bustling landscape and being drawn to buskers, by using a mixture of {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Angela Gheorghiu, Lawrence Brownlee & Daron Hagen Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get to hear a new recording by one of the world’s most renowned soprano as well as the complete recordings of baroque masterpieces and some world premiere pieces. Les Talens Lyriques perform Louise Bertin’s “Fausto” Les Talens Lyriques and {…}