Artist Of The Week: Juan Diego Florez & Olga Peretyatko To Take Monte-Carlo By Storm In ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’

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Surprise – we are changing things up a bit for this week’s Artist of the Week. It’s more like Artists of the Week simply because it was impossible to ignore their tantamount importance on this week’s collaboration. Juan Diego Flórez and Olga Peretyatko are two of today’s greatest stars in the opera world and this week both singers will take {…}

On This Day, Special Features

Surveying the Two Distinct Periods of Sesto Bruscantini’s Career

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Sesto Bruscantini was a consummate shapeshifter as an opera singer. Born on Dec. 10, 1919, Bruscantini enjoyed a lengthy 45-year career filled with performances at some of the most famous houses on the globe including La Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Rome Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, the Vienna State Opera, and Salzburg Festival, among others. He was a unique breed {…}

Artist of the Week, News

Artist of the Week: John Osborn Takes on ‘Fra Diavolo’ in Rome

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“Fra Diavolo” is a rarely performed opera and yet it has a great deal to offer for the tenor that decides to take on its major challenges. Well, this week, tenor John Osborn will be the man to step into the role of Auber’s opera at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with a cast that also features Roberto de Candia, {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q&A: Saimir Pirgu On Italian & French Repertoire And His Upcoming Roles

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Saimir Pirgu is one of today’s top tenors, singing at every major international theater, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Teatro alla Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra, the Berlin Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper, the Zurich Opera, Barcelona’s Liceu, the San Francisco Opera, and the Salzburg Festival. This season he heads to the Teatro {…}

News

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Announces Lineup for Annual Gala

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Single tickets have gone on sale for the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala concert on Dec. 10. This is its second season back home at Carnegie Hall after spending more than 25 years at Lincoln Center. Nadine Sierra, winner of the 2017 Richard Tucker Award, will be joined onstage by past winners as they perform works from Handel, Verdi, Donizetti, {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

La Favorite DVD Review: Elina Garanca And Matthew Polenzani Are Outstanding In This Deutsche Grammophon Release

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Last year the Bayerische Staatsoper opened a new production of Donizetti’s beloved French work “La Favorite.” It was specifically created for Elīna Garanča, who was making her staged role debut after having impressed in the work in a concert performance at the Salzburg Festival alongside Juan Diego Flórez. This time around the company brought along two of her frequent collaborators, Mariusz Kwiecien {…}

IndieOpera

New York Choral Society Concludes Summer Sings With Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

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On Wednesday, August 23, 2017, the NY Choral (New York Choral Society) ends its Summer Sings Open Readings of beloved choral masterworks. This time it will present Mozart’s famed and beloved “Requiem.” The reading will feature Music Director David Hayes with a distinguished cast of soloists. Amber Daniel will sing the soprano part while Heather Johnson will serve as the mezzo. Benjamin Warschawski {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Viva Verdi – Baritone Luca Salsi on His Undying Love For Italy’s Greatest Composer

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For Luca Salsi, there is no composer better than Verdi. No one. Salsi, the Italian baritone, who is slated to sing the role of Amonasro at the Salzburg Festival starting in early August, has repeatedly professed that no composer in the history of Italian opera was able to fuse music and text with the same level of conviction and depth. {…}