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Artist of the Week, Special Features

Artist Of The Week: Matthew Aucoin

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(Credit: Steven Laxton) Throughout the years the story of Orfeo and Euridice has been portrayed on stage in several different works and operas. Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” has dominated the scene while Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” has slowly seen a resurgence in popularity. But it doesn’t stop there as Haydn, Charpentier, Luigi Rossi and even Offenbach put their mark on the story. {…}

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Adrienne Danrich & Liora Michelle To Star in Harlem Stage’s ‘The DIVA’

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(Photos Provided By GOGO Public Relations and Marketing) Harlem Stage is set to showcase “The DIVA (Divine Immigrant Voices about America)” on Jan. 10, 2020. The performance, which will feature sopranos Adrienne Danrich and Liora Michelle, alongside other special guests, will signal the premiere of the Immigrant Song Series, which focuses on diversity in America’s origins. The concert will be {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Constance Hauman

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(Credit:(c) Wiener Staatsoper / Michael Poehn) On Dec. 8, 2019 the Wiener Staatsoper will make history performing “Orlando.” The work was composed by Olga Neuwirth, the  first woman to be commissioned to compose an opera for the theater in over 150 years. Based on Virginia Woolf’s novel of the same name, the work will feature an international cast including celebrated {…}

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Semperoper Dresden Announces Cast Change For ‘Der Rosenkavalier’

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced a cast change for its Oct. 12, 2019 performance of “Der Rosenkavalier.” The company announced that Christof Fischesser will sing Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau in the performance replacing Albert Pesendorfer. Fischesser launched his operatic career at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe and was a member of the Opernhaus Zurich for several years. He has performed leading {…}

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Obituary: Baritone Jan Buchwald Passes Away At 45

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The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced the death of baritone Jan Buchwald. He was 45. Buchwald was born in Solingen in 1974. According to Musik Heute, the baritone studied with teachers including Carl-Heinz Müller, Klesie Kelly, and Alois Orth before making his opera debut in Britten’s “Billy Budd” at the Niedersächsischen Staatstheater Hannover. From fall of 2000 to the summer of {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Kathryn Lewek

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(Credit: Kathryn Lewek Official Facebook) Kathryn Lewek is the reigning Queen of the Night. She has performed the role in every major theater including the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bregenzer Festspiele, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real in Madrid, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Festival Castell de Peralada, Opera Leipzig, Opera de Toulon, English {…}

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Kiera Duffy & Nathan Gunn Lead Beth Morrison Projects’ 2019-20 Season

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Beth Morrison Projects has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include 64 performances on four continents. James Darrah will direct Ellen Reid’s “Prism.” The production will star mezzo-soprano Rebecca Jo Loeb as Lumee and soprano Anna Schubert as her ill daughter, Bibi. Performances will be held at Teatro Municipal in São Paulo (in its South American premiere) and at the {…}

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AVA Announces New Resident Artists

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AVA has announced six new Resident Artists to the opera academy. The incoming class of Resident Artists includes soprano Emily Margevich, bass Cody Müller, tenor Zachary Rioux, tenor Sahel Salam, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Stanley, and bass Griffen Hogan Tracy. The six residents come from Philadelphia, Colorado, Chicago, Princeton, and New Brunswick, Canada. Margevich comes from the DePaul University School of Music {…}

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Living The Dream – Benjamin Bernheim On Singing Dream Roles & Deutsche Grammophon

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Two years ago, Benjamin Bernheim was a young artist performing light tenor roles and preparing to make the jump to some of the most important lyric operas in the repertory. He was an unknown and was still a member of the Opernhaus Zurich. But he had a perspective of where he wanted to be. “I knew I wanted to sing {…}