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Benjamin Appl Begins Residency at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

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In Jan. 2025, baritone Benjamin Appl will begin his Artist in Residence position with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Appl’s residency kicks off with his conducting debut in a performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” Continuing on in the season, Appl will perform with Ensemble 10:10 and release his new album, “To Dieter: The Past and Future.” Closing out his residency in {…}

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XXIII International Festival of Sacred Music and Art Announces 2024 Lineup

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Details of the 2024 programming for XXIII International Festival of Sacred Music and Art has been announced. For the purposes of this article only vocal related events are included. Rossana Cardia, Angela Nicoli, Vincenzo Spinelli, and Gaetano Merone are soloists with the IlluminArt Chorus. Tomomi Nishimoto conducts Orchestra di Roma in Mozart’s “Requiem” in D minor. Performance Date: November 15, {…}

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Andrea Bocelli to Release a Concert Film Starring Plácido Domingo, Aida Garifullina & Nadine Sierra

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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s concert film, “Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration,” will be released globally in theaters this fall by Fathom. The film will document the three-day July event honoring Bocelli’s 30th anniversary in music. The event, which is set for July 15, 17 & 19, will take place in Lajatico at the Teatro del Silenzio in Tuscany. The film {…}

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Czech Center New York to Present ‘Czech Prima Donnas’ at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Czech Center New York in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera and the Czech National Museum in Prague is preparing an exhibition about Czech female opera singers. The exhibition will showcase singers whose careers brought them onto the Met stage. Some of the singers starred in the Met’s first productions of major Czech operas. Among them are Emmy Destinn who {…}

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The Kennedy Center Launches a National Month-Long Campaign For Arts Education

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The Kennedy Center, in partnership with AMC Theatres, has released a public service announcement featuring Academy Award®–winning actor, singer, and dancer Ariana DeBose promoting arts education and encourages public to “thank an art teacher.” Coinciding with the National Arts in Education week (Sept. 10–16), the campaign will be shown at AMC Theatre locations across the country from Aug. 25 through {…}

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Esa-Pekka Salonen Cancels Philharmonia Orchestra Concert

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The Philharmonia Orchestra has announced a conductor change for its upcoming performance. The company said that for the performance on March 26, 2023, “Esa-Pekka Salonen has tested positive for COVID, and regrets that he is unable to conduct this performance.” As a result, Alexander Soddy will step in at short notice. Soddy has conducted at opera houses around Europe, at the {…}

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Grand Théâtre de Geneve to Host World Premiere of Christian Jost’s New Opera ‘Voyage vers l’Espoir’

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German composer Christian Jost’s new opera “Voyage vers l’Espoir” (“Journey of Hope”) will make its world premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Geneve. Káta Weber’s libretto is based on Xavier Koller’s Academy Award-winning film of the same name. The story explores the experience of “displacement, migration, and the search for a promised land” by following a Kurdish family who abandoned {…}

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English National Opera to Receive Funding from Arts Council England

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The English National Opera has announced that it will receive funding from the Arts Council England following negotiations and months of protest. The company said, “the English National Opera are pleased to confirm that, following negotiations with Arts Council England, the organization is to receive £11.46m of National Lottery funding for the next financial year, starting 1st April 2023. This {…}