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Anna Netrebko, Aigul Akhmetshina, Angel Blue, Jonas Kaufmann, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Piotr Beczała, Luca Salsi, & Aleksandra Kurzak Lead Arena di Verona’s 2025 Season

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The Arena di Verona has announced its 2025 season. Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production. Stefano Poda will direct the new production. Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Youngjun Park, Luca Salsi, and Igor Golovatenko lead the cast that includes Anna Pirozzi, Maria José Siri, Anna Netrebko, and Olga Maslova as Abigaille, Francesco Meli and Galeano Salas as Ismaele. The cast is rounded out by Roberto {…}
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Q & A: Vasilisa Berzhanskaya on Her Opera Career Path & What Keeps Her Curious in Life

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(Photo Credit: Lena Fainberg) Born in Russia, mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya is a graduate of the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow and a former member of the Youth Opera Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. Her repertoire encompasses roles of the Italian bel canto of Rossini and Bellini, Mozart, Baroque music such as Vivaldi and Purcell, and roles from Russian {…}
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Lyric Opera of Chicago to Honor Late Sir Andrew Davis with Special Concert

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The Lyric Opera of Chicago will honor the memory of Sir Andrew Davis with a special gala on Feb. 15, 2024. Davis served as the music director and Principal conductor for the company between 2000-21 before becoming Music Director Emeritus. The showcase will feature performances by mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong, soprano Christine Goerke, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, bass John Relyea, tenor Stuart {…}
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Eve-Maud Hubeaux & Jonathan Tetelman Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Carmen’ Production

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San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Fall Season concludes with the Bizet’s “Carmen.” The production by Francesca Zambello will be performed between Nov. 13–Dec. 1 at the War Memorial Opera House. Mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux is set to make her American debut in the title role alongside Jonathan Tetelman as Don José, Louise Alder as Micaëla, and Christian Van Horn as Escamillo. The {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

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(Credit: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) (This review was written in collaboration with Francisco Salazar) After a hyped but underwhelming opening night, the Met Opera’s second at-bat in the 2024-25 was the revival of a French classic that it hadn’t showcased since 2017. “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” is an incredible opera, rich in imagination, both in its musical and dramatic qualities. {…}
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Top 5 Operas to See This Season at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Metropolitan Opera season is only one week away and with a new season comes anticipated new productions and revivals and will showcase some of the world’s best singers. So without further ado here are OperaWire’s most anticipated productions of the 2024-25 season. Ainadamar  As listed in the 10 operas to see this fall, the Osvaldo Golijov is one of {…}
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Benjamin Bernheim Headlines Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ Revival

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(Credit: Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The company showcase the opera from Sept. 24 to Oct. 18, 2024 and will star French tenor Benjamin Bernheim in his signature role. OperaWire has praised the tenor for his interpretation in Salzburg and Paris noting, “The tenor possesses a voice of immaculate texture with {…}
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San Francisco Opera Announces 2024-25 Season Livestreams

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The San Francisco Opera has announced the 2024-25 livestream season. The season opens with a production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.” The opera will star Michael Fabiano, Lianna Haroutounian, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Mei Gui Zhang, and Judit Kutasi. Livestream Date: Sept. 15, 2024 at 2pm Poul Ruder’s “The Handmaid’s Tale“ will be the second stream and will star Irene Roberts, Lindsay Ammann, Sarah Cambidge, and John Relyea. Livestream {…}
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Salzburg Festival 2024 Review: Les Contes d’Hoffmann

https://operawire.com/salzburg-festival-2024-review-les-contes-dhoffmann/

It is blatantly evident that there is a connection between the advent of cinema and the decline of Opera. Once the main form of entertainment, the operatic stage lost its prominence to the silver screen. There is something that opera used to give that cinema somehow gave, too—the question is what? Last year, the Salzburg Festival attempted to bridge the {…}

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