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Anna Netrebko, Judit Kutasi, Anita Rachvelishvili, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson, Diana Damrau, Corinne Winters, Lawrence Brownlee Headline Hungarian State Opera’s 2026-27 Season

https://operawire.com/anna-netrebko-judit-kutasi-anita-rachvelishvili-rolando-villazon-thomas-hampson-diana-damrau-corinne-winters-lawrence-brownlee-headline-hungarian-state-operas-2026-27-season/

The Hungarian State Opera has announced its 143rd season, featuring 10 new productions, 500 performances across its two venues, and a landmark Kodály centenary celebration. Here is a look at the operatic offerings. New Productions The season opens with a world premiere of “Kodály Háry Jancsika,” a new children’s version of the beloved singspiel performed by the OPERA Children’s Chorus, {…}
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Brooklyn Art Song Society to Present Cycles V: Harawi with Erin Wagner

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Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) is set to present “Cycles V: Harawi.” The concert, which will be held on Feb. 1, will feature Messiaen’s song cycle for voice and piano. Mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner returns to BASS following her standout debut last season and she will be accompanied by pianist Shawn Chang. The evening will also feature a pre-concert lecture at {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayreuth Festival 2025 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Credit: Enrico Nawrath) “They enter into blinding darkness those who worship chaos; into greater darkness still those who delight in shadow.” Upanishad, Verse IX Coming to Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” for the first time must always remain a unique, emotional, musical experience. It is an opera of subtle interpretations, not only regarding the music and dramatic action, but perhaps more {…}
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Dutch National Opera Studio Announces 2025-26 Season Artists

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The Dutch National Opera Studio has announced the new artists for the 2025-26 season. The company said that new talents for the opera studio included Madison Horman, Eva Rae Martinez, Aaike Nortier, and Ismael Correa Ulriksen, with Leonardo Moyano Ortiz and Francesco Orecchio joining as répétiteurs. The talent development is central to the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and Dutch {…}
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Strauss in the Shadows: Germany Spearheads a Revival of the Composer’s Lesser-Known Operas

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I. In a city as operatically overdetermined as Berlin, even a new production of Richard Strauss’s “Die Frau ohne Schatten” might be expected to pass with respectable indifference. But when Tobias Kratzer mounted the late-Romantic behemoth this January at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, capping a Strauss trilogy that had begun with “Arabella” and “Intermezzo,” the result was not just another {…}
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Andreas Schager Named Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper

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Andreas Schager has been named Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper. The company announced the news via social media and said, “Yesterday, the Austrian heldentenor was awarded the Austrian professional title ‘Kammersänger.’ Currently, he is in the Ring Cycle at the Wiener Staatsoper, as Siegmund and Siegfried.” Schager is one of the leading Wagnerian tenors in the world who has performed {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Nina Stemme on Her Farewell to Isolde, her Philadelphia Orchestra Debut & Singing Wagner

https://operawire.com/q-a-nina-stemme-on-her-farewell-to-isolde-her-philadelphia-orchestra-debut-singing-wagner/

For years, Nina Stemme has been regarded as one of the great interpreters of the Wagner repertoire. Her Isolde has been widely admired by audiences around the world at some of the greatest theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, and Berlin. In May 2004, she bid farewell to the role in a stage production, and now June 1, she {…}
Puzzles, Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Salome

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(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) On April 28, 2025, the Metropolitan Opera opened a new production of Strauss’ “Salome.” At the center of the highly anticipated performance was the debut of internationally-renowned director Claus Guth, who has built a name of edgy reimaginings of classic works. It was also the first new production of “Salome” at the Met since {…}

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