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Carmela Remigio, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi & Xabier Anduaga Lead Festival Valle d’Itria’s Revised 2020 Edition

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The Festival Valle d’itria Martina Franca has announced its revised 2020 edition. Opera The first work of the season will be “Il borghese gentiluomo” with music by Richard Strauss. The work based on a comedy by Moliere will star Stefano Massini and Davide Gasparro sharing the title role alongside Vittorio Prato, Ana Victoria Pitts, Barbara Massaro, Manuel Amati, Nico Franchini, {…}

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New Initiative Opera Futura Founded for Future of Italian Opera

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Opera Futura, a new initiative for Italian Opera, has been founded.  The new non-profit platform will study opera in numerous ways across different businesses and will look at ways to innovate the artform and its own models. Through the initiative top industry musicians and artists will hold panels and discussions to obtain new ideas, models, and strategies for the growth {…}

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Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena & Thomas Hampson Headline Opernhaus Zürich’s Reopening Recitals

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The Opernhaus Zürich has announced it will reopen its doors in July. The company announced that following the Swiss government’s regulations in order to minimize the spread of the coronavirus, the theater will showcase recitals with a maximum of 300 audience members. The recitals, which will begin on July 2 and run through July 12,  will feature such artists as {…}

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Plácido Domingo, Joyce DiDonato, Aleksandra Kurzak, Anthony Roth Costanzo Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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We’re starting to see the world open up slowly in some countries and rapidly in others. But the performing arts world isn’t quite opening at the same pace with few organizations back in the full swing of things. As a result, streaming options are ever-prevalent. So as we move into the summer months, here is a look at what operas {…}

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Festival della Valle d’Itria To Reopen with Revised 2020 Program

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The Festival della Valle d’Itria will move forward with a revised 2020 edition. The festival, which takes place in Martina Franca, Italy and is set to celebrate its 46th edition, will showcase two rare operas at the Atrio of the Palazzo Ducale. The first title will be Richard Strauss’ “Arianna a Nasso” conducted by Fabio Luisi in a new Italian {…}

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Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Shirley Verrett Headline Weeks 11 & 12 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown theaters around the world, the Metropolitan Opera has announced not one but two weeks of nightly streams in advance. The next few weeks feature a mix of more recent performances with some classic showcases from decades ago. Here’s the rundown. Monday, May 25 – Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust Conducted by James {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Elsa Dreisig, Ludovic Tézier Join Opera for Peace

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Opera for Peace has announced that several of opera’s greatest stars are joining the organization as ambassadors and advisors. Tenor René Barbera and sopranos Elsa Dreisig and Joyce El-Khoury have become the organization’s newest ambassadors. Meanwhile, conductor Fabio Luisi, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, and baritone Ludovic Tézier have signed on as Advisors; they join baritone Thomas Hampson and soprano Sumi Jo, who {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams Week 10 to Feature Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 10th week of its nightly streams. Here is a rundown of all the performances which includes two classic performances. Monday, May 18 – Mozart’s Idomeneo Conducted by James Levine, starring Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Alice Coote, and Matthew Polenzani. Transmitted live on March 25, 2017. Tuesday, May 19 – Wagner’s Lohengrin – {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Joyce DiDonato, Russell Thomas Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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The good news? Some countries are starting to slowly opening up their doors as they transition out of the lockdown. But that’s not to say that everyone is rushing outside (nor should they). This means that there’s still a lot of time to stay indoors and a lot of opera to fill in those hours. As with the last few {…}