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Isabel Leonard & Liv Redpath Headline San Diego Symphony’s Season-Opening Performances

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The San Diego Symphony will open its 2025–26 season with a performance honoring two of France’s most renowned composers. The showcase, which will be conducted by Music Director Rafael Payare, will feature Debussy’s “L’isle joyeuse,” Caplet’s orchestration of Debussy’s “La boîte à joujoux,” and a semi-staged presentation of Ravel’s “L’enfant et les sortilèges.” The latter will be headlined by mezzo-soprano {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Get New ‘Khovanschina’ production

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(Credit:  Inés Bacher) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present a new production of Mussorgsky’s “Khovanschina” in a future season. The New York Times is reporting that the production by Simon McBurney premiering at the Salzburg Easter Festival “will travel to New York in the future.” The new production will showcase a new ending by composer, musicologist, and author Gerard {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Berwaldhallen Review 2024: Khovanshchina

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(Photo Credits: Maarit Kytöharju) Opening Berwaldhallen’s 2024 Baltic Sea Festival, on August 24th, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gerard McBurney produced a tastefully contemporary and neo-Wagnerian rendition of Modest Mussorgsky’s unfinished “national music drama,” “Khovanshchina,” to a ravenous public. Awarded, and rightly so, with three ovations, ten soloists from across Europe and three choirs successfully produced one of the most expressive versions {…}

Special Features

The Xen of Opera: The Art of Moving Above The Ground

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(Credit: Liv Øvland) Opera is quivering, twisting, and turning. Could it be that we are in an opera renaissance? There is a new blood pulsing through its veins. Opera and theater makers are pulling at its heart, resuscitating our interest and taking us to diverse locations with as yet unclassifiable languages and forms. The Xen of Opera looks at the {…}