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(UPDATED) ​​Corinne Costell, Naomi Brigell, Karlos Piñero-Mercado, & Ryan Alexander Perform in Ear Taxi Festival 2025

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The Ear Taxi Festival’s “The Composer’s Voice,” has announced that it will return to Chicago in fall 2025. This article only features classical voice events. The chamber vocal ensemble, Bella Voce opens the 2025 Festival with the oratorio, “Lost Objects.” The work by Bang on a Can combines choir, electronics, and modern themes. Hannah De Priest, Ryan Belongie, and Luke {…}
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Kangmin Justin Kim, Lauren Decker, Sophie Michaux, Emily Birsan Headline Haymarket Opera Company’s 2023 Season

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Haymarket Opera Company has unveiled its 2023 season. It all kicks off with Scarlatti’s 1693 oratorio “La Giuditta.” The work will star Emily Birsan, Sophie Michaux, Sarah Brailey, William Dwyer, and David Govertsen. Craig Trompeter leads a chamber ensemble. The performance will take place at Gannon Concert Hall at DePaul University’s Holtschneider Performance Center. Performance Date: March 24, 2023 That {…}
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Bejun Mehta, Sophie Rennert, Francesca Ascioti & Giuseppina Bridelli Headline Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 2022 Season

https://operawire.com/bejun-mehta-sophie-rennert-francesca-ascioti-giuseppina-bridelli-headline-innsbruck-festival-of-early-musics-2022-season/

(Credit: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music official website) The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced its 2022 season, featuring three operas and a number of concerts. For the purpose of this article we will focus on the vocal works. Here is a full slate. Operas  Carl Heinrich Graun’s opera “Silla” spotlights Bejun Mehta, Eleonora Bellocci, Valer Sabadus, Roberta Invernizzi, {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Lise Davidson, Angel Blue, Francesca Dotto, Wallis Giunta & Raffaele Pe Lead new CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week, audiences can hear a recital by one of the most famous sopranos of our time and discover several baroque works by rarely performed composers. They can also get a glimpse at one of the upcoming operas at the Metropolitan Opera. Here are {…}
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Bach Society of Saint Louis to Present ‘Messiah’

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The Bach Society of Saint Louis will present Parts II and III of Händel’s “Messiah” on March 15, 2026. Music Director and Conductor A. Dennis Sparger leads the Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra alongside guest soloists soprano Hannah De Priest, countertenor Jay Carter, tenor Dann Coakwell, and bass Elijah Blaisdell. The performance kicks off at 3 p.m. local time. Next {…}
IndieOpera

Bach in the City to Present Midwest Premiere of Bruno’s ‘St. Mark Passion’ Reconstruction

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Chicago’s Bach in the City will present the Midwest premiere of British musicologist Malcolm Bruno’s 2019 reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach’s lost “St. Mark Passion,” BWV 247. The showcase, set for March 20, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul Church, will be led by founding Music Director Richard Webster. The evening’s soloists include soprano Hannah De Priest, {…}
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Haymarket Opera & Newberry Consort to Present ‘Euridice’

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Haymarket Opera is teaming up with The Newberry Consort to present Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” on Oct. 24 and 25, 2025. The oldest surviving opera, which originally premiered in 1600 and had its American premiere at the University of Chicago in 1967, will take the stage of the Music Institute of Chicago in a production starring Soprano Erica Schuller and tenor {…}
Reviews

Musikfest Bremen 2025 Review: The Dragon of Wantley

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(Credit: Patric Leo) John Frederick Lampe’s “The Dragon of Wantley” (1737), with libretto by Henry Carey, is one of the sharpest English burlesques of the 18th century. By dressing up absurd English verse in the grand musical gestures associated with Handel, it gleefully mocked the Italian operas that had dominated London. The parody was so effective—and so popular—that it undercut {…}
News, Season Announcement

Bach Society of Saint Louis Celebrates 85th Season in 2025

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(Photo credit: ProPhotoSTL) The Bach Society of Saint Louis unveils its 2025 season lineup. The Society’s Music Director, A. Dennis Sparger leads all performances. The season with Mozart’s “Requiem.” Molly Netter, Clara Osowski, Gene Stenger, and Paul Max Tipton are soloists with the Bach Society Chorus and Orchestra. Performance Date: October 12, 2025 The Christmas Candlelight Concert features John Rutter’s {…}

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