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Maya Kherani, Amanda Forsythe & Aaron Sheehan Headline Baroque Streams For Holidays

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(Credit: https://www.wgbh.org/music/baroque-christmas-bemf) Boston Baroque and Boston Early Music Festival will stream several baroque pieces for the holidays, including Händel’s celebrated “Messiah.” First up, soprano Maya Kherani, counter-tenor Christopher Lowrey, tenor Aaron Sheehan, and bass-baritone Kevin Deas perform “Messiah.” Boston Baroque Music Director Martin Pearlman conducts. The concert was recorded and streamed live on IDAGIO on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 in {…}
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Ensemble Altera Announces Winter Concert Featuring Music by Female Composers

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(Credit: Ensemble Altera official website) Ensemble Altera, the Providence-based classical choral group, will hold a concert entitled “We Watch and Welcome, Feminine Voices at Christmas.” The program for the concert will include Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” and works by several female composers, including pieces by medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen, 17th century composer Barbara Strozzi, and Joanna Marsh. “During the {…}
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Heidelberger Frühling Festspiel Announces 2022 Season

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The Heidelberger Frühling Festspiel has announced its 25th edition. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal and operatic performances. There will be a performance of Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” starring soprano Sandrine Piau and countertenor Christopher Lowrey under the musical direction of Christophe Rousset who will conduct Les Talens Lyriques. The concert will also feature {…}
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International Handel Festival Göttingen 2021 Review: Rodelinda

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(Photo: Alciro Theodore da Silva) The relationship of art to society is a complex and ever-changing one. At times it is used to support the dominant values of the elite as was the case with the 17th and 18th century baroque, whilst during other periods, it sets itself up in opposition to society, underpinned by varying degrees of revolutionary intent. {…}
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Karine Deshayes, Sabine Devieilhe & Philippe Jaroussky Highlight Opéra de Rouen Normandie’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credits: © Aymeric Giraudel / Fabien Monthubert / © Simon Fowler) Opéra de Rouen Normandie, France has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purpose of this article, we will only focus on the operatic and vocal performances. Here is the full slate. Opera and Musicals Verdi‘s “Il Trovatore” opens the season with Lionel Lhote as Count di Luna, Brigitta Kele {…}
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Daniela Mack, Amanda Forsythe, Maya Kherani Headline Boston Baroque’s 2021-22 Season

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(Credit: Kathy Wittman) Boston Baroque has announced its 2021-22 season which will include live performances streamed digitally via IDAGIO. “While we continue presenting great music on period instruments, Boston Baroque is embracing technology as a way to reach new audiences, much as we did when we became the first period instrument orchestra in North America to sign a major record {…}
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Marina Rebeka, Ermonela Jaho, Golda Schultz, Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Ludovic Tézier Headline Radio France’s 2021-22 Season

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Radio France has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on the vocal works. Here is a look. Operas Ravel’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges” spotlights  Jodie Devos, Clara Guillon, Adèle Charvet, Marie Lenormand, Élodie Méchain, Antoine Normand, Régis Mengus, and Paul Gay. Mikko Franck conducts. Performance date: Oct. 1, 2021, Philharmonie de Paris {…}
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Joyce DiDonato, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Lise Davidsen & Sonya Yoncheva Lead Palau de la Música Catalana’s 2021-22 Season

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The Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona has announced a star-studded 2021-22 season with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, soloists, and choruses. Here is a look at the vocal and choral performances. The Cor Lieder Càmera and Josep Vila i Casañasperformworksby Bach, Brahms, Duruflé, Gasull, Morera, Ollé, Vila i Casañas, and Vaughan-Williams. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2021 Joyce {…}
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Boston Baroque Streaming Unique ‘Messiah’ Experience

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Boston Baroque has started streaming a unique showcase of Handel’s “Messiah” as part of its December offering. Instead of presenting just one specific performance of the hallowed work for the holiday season, the company took a different approach, compiling showcases from 2014 through 2019 to create a more potent experience. The result features a number of major artists appearing as {…}

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