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Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg 2025-26 Review: Otello

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(Photo: © Klara Beck) From October 29 to November 9, the Strasbourg Opera will be performing Verdi’s “Otello.” As always with the Strasbourg Opera, the Filature in Mulhouse will be staging this production as well on, November 16 and 18. The staging has been given to the director Ted Huffman, who employs a highly effective minimalist approach, focusing the drama {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: Carmen

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(Photo: Evan Zimmerman) The Metropolitan Opera’s season premiere of Carrie Cracknell’s revived production of Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” debuted on October 28, 2025 with a stellar cast lineup including Isabel Leonard, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Michael Fabiano, Benjamin Taylor, Scott Conner, Madison Leonard, Briana Hunter, Adam Plachetka, Michael Adams, and Aaron Blake. The original debut of this production took place during the 2023-24 {…}
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María Brea & Enriqueta Somarriba to Headline ‘Verses in Song’ at State Theatre New Jersey

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The State Theatre New Jersey will feature soprano María Brea and pianist Enriqueta Somarriba in “Verses in Song” on Nov. 23, 2025, at 3 p.m. The program, part of the company’s Sound Studio series, will feature works by Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy, Florence Price, Aaron Copland, Hugo Wolf, and Joaquín Turina. “Verses in Song is a celebration of {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Rigoletto

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(Credit: Ph. Brescia e Amisano) After the recurrent “Rigoletto” production by Gilbert Deflo, which has been revived more than ten times since its debut in 1994, the Teatro alla Scala commissioned Mario Martone in 2022 to create a new staging of Verdi’s classic. The result was a contemporary and technologically rich interpretation of the opera, and the theater decided to {…}
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Modern Opera Company to Present World Premiere of Felix Jarrar’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

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Modern Opera Company will celebrate its second season in Los Angeles with the world premiere of Felix Jarrar’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” on October 24 and 25 at the Highland Park Ebell Club. Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s famed short story, Jarrar’s opera reimagines the gothic classic through an LGBTQIA+ lens, exploring grief, obsession, and the blurred line between morality and {…}
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Opernhaus Zürich Recital 2025-26 Review: Elīna Garanča

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(Photo: Gaetan Bally) On Sept. 19, the Zürich Opera opened its 2025-26 Liederabend series featuring Latvian mezzo Elīna Garanča and new General Director Matthias Schulz at the piano. The evening promised to be an enchanting one filled with rich musical journeys in lieder, song, and arias. The result was exactly that. A program of captivating qualities that showed why Garanča {…}
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Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced its 2025 nominees. The nominees for Opera Company of the Year are Deutsche Oper Berlin, GöteborgsOperan, Houston Grand Opera, MusikTheater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, and Teatro alla Scala.  Meanwhile, in the Female Singer category, Anastasia Bartoli, Elsa Dreisig, Véronique Gens, Asmik Grigorian, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Adela Zaharia are the nominees.  In the Male Singer {…}
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Bayreuth Festival 2025 Review: Der Ring Des Nibelungen

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(Photo Credit: Enrico Nawrath) The power of the music transcends any single interpreter. From the primal opening chord the rising and falling of Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk will lead audiences through 17 hours of an ecstatic vision. Amidst such orchestral glory, however, the second cycle of the Bayreuth Festival’s 2025 “Ring” provided plenty of conceptual confusion as Wagner-lovers bid a grateful {…}

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