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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The Atlanta Opera 2025 Review: Semele

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(Photo credit Raftermen Photography) The Atlanta Opera (TAO) closed their 2024-25 mainstage season with Georg Frideric Handel’s 1744 semi-oratorio, or quasi-opera, “Semele.” General Director Tomer Zvulun structured the season around art’s transnational commonplace, the Hero’s Journey. But interestingly, all four works selected also play with genre and they address the nearly unanswerable question, ‘what is opera, anyway?’ They began with {…}

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Baltic Opera Festival 2025 Review: The Monster’s Voice

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(Photo: KARPATI & ZAREWICZ) Continuing the theme of this year’s Baltic Opera Festival of a wanderer confronting his own loneliness, exclusion and humanity, the one act opera “The Monster’s Voice” is based on the real-life story of a young Jewish boy, Salomon Perel, who, because of his “Arian” looks, hid in the ranks of the Hitler Youth Movement during World {…}

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Opera Meets Film: The Question of Meaning in John Irvin’s ‘The Moon and the Stars’

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John Irvin’s 2007 film “The Moon and the Stars” is a tale of arduous love, societal stigma, and unyielding dedication to art. The story revolves around the production of a cinematic rendition of Puccini’s fifth opera, “Tosca.” There are two primary narratives that play out in tandem: the arrest of the production’s director, Davide Rieti, a gay Jewish man played by {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Changes Lead Tenor for ‘The Queen of Spades,’ Again

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(Credit: Metropolitan Opera / Ken Howard ) The Metropolitan Opera has announced another major cast change for “The Queen of Spades.” The role of Hermann will now be sung by Arsen Soghomonyan. It was originally announced with Brian Jagde taking on the role, but the tenor withdrew from the production in favor of Brandon Jovanovich, who is no longer listed {…}

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Anita Rachvelishvili Sues the Metropolitan Opera for Discrimination

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Anita Rachvelishvili has sued the Metropolitan Opera in a Manhattan Federal Court. In court documents obtained by the New York Post, the mezzo is suing the Met for firing her because she couldn’t hit her high notes. The mezzo claims that the company canceled her contracts in January 2023 due to “deterioration of vocal quality.” She was set to perform {…}

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Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the front rank of living British opera composers. With “Festen”, which opened at The Royal Opera last week, he now has five to his name, with a sixth to follow at Glyndebourne this autumn in the form of “The Railway Children” – a less harrowing subject than this adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s 1995 {…}

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Opéra-Comique Paris 2024-25 Review: Les Fêtes d’Hébé

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(Photo: Vincent Pontet) If I were to rank the weakest opera libretti of all time, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Antoine-César Gautier de Montdorge’s “Les Fêtes d’Hébé ou Les Talents Lyriques” would certainly be in the top tier. Nevertheless, the opera-ballet possesses an allegorical charm that transcends the quality of its text—and it is a charm that is not solely musical. After {…}

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Odyssey Opera to Present ‘Lysistrata’

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The Odyssey Opera is set to present Mark Adamo’s “Lysistrata” in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The presentation on Feb. 15 will be the Boston premiere at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. The opera is Mark Adamo’s early-21st century hilarious take on the ancient satire written over 2000 years ago by Greek playwright Aristophanes. Gil Rose leads an international {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

The Atlanta Opera 2025 Review: Semele

Baltic Opera Festival 2025 Review: The Monster’s Voice

Opera Meets Film: The Question of Meaning in John Irvin’s ‘The Moon and the Stars’

Metropolitan Opera Changes Lead Tenor for ‘The Queen of Spades,’ Again

Anita Rachvelishvili Sues the Metropolitan Opera for Discrimination

Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

Opéra-Comique Paris 2024-25 Review: Les Fêtes d’Hébé

Odyssey Opera to Present ‘Lysistrata’