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Elīna Garanča, Cecilia Bartoli, Alice Coote & Juan Diego Flórez Lead Lucern Festival’s 2021 Season

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The Lucerne Festival has announced its 2021 summer season. For this article, we will only concentrate on vocal performances at the Swiss festival. Riccardo Chailly conducts Gun-Brit Barkmin in a program that includes Mahler and Berg. Performance Date: August 13, 2021 Riccardo Chailly conducts Elīna Garanča in Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder.” The program also includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major. {…}

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Riccardo Muti, Teresa Iervolino, & Vincent Wolfsteiner Highlight Teatro La Fenice’s 2020-21 Season

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The Teatro La Fenice has announced the first part of its 2020-21 season, which is set to run from Oct. 30 to Feb. 16, 2021. The new season begins with concert performances featuring Juraj Valčuha conducting the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice. The concert will include music by Claude Debussy and Modest Mussorgsky. Performance Dates: Oct. 30-21, 2020 Riccardo Muti {…}

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Teatro dell’Opera di Roma to Present Three Concerts at Nuvola-Roma Convention Center

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The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma will present concerts at the Nuvola-Roma Convention Center for the first time. The company will present three concerts on Sept. 11, 18, and 23 in which the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and singers from the “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program will participate. On Sept. 11, Gianluca Capuano will conduct a program dedictaed to Gluck {…}

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The Pandemic Prevention Plan That Enabled the Salzburg Festival’s 100th Edition to Take Place

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Every year, the Salzburg Festival fascinates with its superhuman efforts to nurture the prosperous cultural life of the city. During the summer they organize and present to the public the full seasonal repertoire of the opera house, drama theater, and concert hall. This year, with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of almost the entire world’s cultural {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Cecilia Bartoli & Anja Harteros Highlight Salzburg Whitsun Festival’s 2021 Edition

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Cecilia Bartoli has unveiled details for the 2021 Salzburg Whitsun Festival. The 2021 edition will be themed after Rome, the city of Bartoli’s birth, and will feature a new production of Georg Friedrich Handel’s oratorio “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” by  Robert Carsen. Bartoli will star in the Handel masterpiece with Gianluca Capuano conducting Les Musiciens de Prince-Monaco. {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Ildar Abdrazakov Headline Bolshoi Theatre’s 2020-21 Season

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The Bolshoi Theatre has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of new productions. The company also announced its September revivals. Premieres  Alexei Vereshchagin conducts a new production of Bizet’s “Les pêcheurs de perles” directed by Vladislavs Nastavševs. Premiere Date: Dec. 3, 2020 R. Strauss’ “Salome” gets a new production by Claus Guth. The production, which is set for the {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Patricia Petibon & Cecilia Bartoli Lead Philharmonie Luxembourg’s 2020-21 Season

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The Philharmonie Luxembourg has announced its 2020-21 season featuring several great orchestras, soloists, and the famed Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg. For this article, we will only focus on the vocal performances. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle“ with Rinat Shaham and Gerald Finley. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2020 Oksana Lyniv and Rolando Villazón join the Orchestre {…}

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Plácido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli & Marina Rebeka Lead Opéra de Monte-Carlo’s 2020-21 Season

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The Opéra de Monte-Carlo has announced its 2020-21 season featuring five opera productions, concerts, and galas. Albin Grau conducts a cine concert of “Nosferatu.” Performance Dates: Oct. 21, 2020 Cecilia Bartoli headlines an evening of Baroque music alongside Sofia Vinnik, Petr Nekoranec, and José Coca Loza. Gianluca Capuano conducts a production by Jean-Louis Grinda. Performance Date: Nov. 19, 2020 Frédéric {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Asmik Grigorian & Cecilia Bartoli Highlight Revised Salzburg Festival Season

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(Image Source / Credit: Askonas Holt / Dario Acosta / Cecilia Bartoli Official Website) The Salzburg Festival has announced its revised edition. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Opera Franz Welser-Möst Conducts R. Strauss’ “Elektra“ in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski. The production stars Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Aušrine Stundyte, Asmik Grigorian, Michael Laurenz Aegisth, and Derek Welton.  Performance Dates:  August 1- {…}