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Asmik Grigorian, Andrè Schuen, Michael Spyres & Renée Fleming Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2023 Season

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The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2023 season featuring operas, concerts, recitals, and Mozart programs. Opera Raphaël Pichon will conduct Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in a new production by Martin Kušej. Andrè Schuen, Adriana González, Sabine Devieilhe, Krzysztof Bączyk, and Lea Desandre star. Performance Dates: July 27-August 28, 2023 Verdi’s “Macbeth” will be conducted by Franz Welser-Möst and directed {…}
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Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(Credit: Charles Duprat / Opéra national de Paris) (This review is for performances on November 25 and 27) Netia Jones’ staging proves how much an ill-conceived mis-en-scene can affect the music, even when it is Mozart. In Portuguese, we say that Mozart’s music must be as a perfect and smooth as a rare pearl. There is even an adjective “perolado” {…}
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San Francisco Opera 2022-23 Review: Antony and Cleopatra

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) “I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.” So sings Cleopatra in John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra.” The baser life about which Cleopatra sings is everything that is not she and everything that was not Antony. So Adams tells us in the latest from his roster of remarkable operas. San Francisco Opera {…}
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Accademia Filarmonica Romana to Present Anna Prohsaka & Julius Drake

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(© Marco Borggreve) The Accademia Filarmonica Romana is set to present a Lieder concert featuring soprano Anna Prohaska and pianist Julius Drake. The concert is set to be held on Sept. 11 at the Sala Casella, via Flaminia 118 and will showcase the artists performing from their project “Paradise Lost,” which they also recorded on Alpha Classics. The masterpiece by John {…}
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San Francisco Opera to Present World Premiere of ‘Anthony & Cleopatra’

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The San Francisco Opera is set to present the world premiere of John Adams’ “Antony and Cleopatra.” The production, which opens on Sept. 10 and runs through Oct 5, 2022, was created especially for San Francisco Opera’s 100th season and continues the company’s relationship with John Adams. The composer’s “Doctor Atomic (2005)” and “Girls of the Golden West (2017)” were {…}
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Gregory Kunde Headlines Bayerische Staatsoper’s ‘Otello’

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The Bayerische Staatsoper is set to present Verdi’s “Otello” as part of its Munich Opera Festival. The company’s production by  Amélie Niermeyer will star Gregory Kunde in the title role. It will mark Kunde’s return to the company following his performances in “Les Troyens.” Kunde has performed the role of “Otello” in more than 25 productions in theaters such as {…}
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Will Liverman, Natalia Labourdette & Malcolm Martineau Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences can check out new works, full opera performances, and debut albums. Fire Shut Up in My Bones The Met releases Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmon’s opera with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a cast led by Will Liverman, Angel Blue, and Latonia Moore. OperaWire noted that the opera was a “masterpiece.” The Complete Songs of Duparc Malcolm Martineau presents {…}
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Ben Bliss, Golda Schultz, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Christian Van Horn Headline the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’

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(Credit: Marty Sohl) The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive Stravinsky’s iconic “The Rake’s Progress” on May 30, 2022. The opera will be conducted by Susanna Mälkki, making her company return for the first time since 2016. The Jonathan Miller production will be headlined by Ben Bliss, Golda Schultz in her role debut as Anne, and Raehann Bryce-Davis as Baba {…}

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