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Boston Early Music Festival 2025 Review: Octavia

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(Photo: Kathy Wittman) Once every other year, Boston becomes THE city to be in if you are a hardcore early music addict. While many festivals claim to focus on early music, they often stick to the usual crowd-pleasers—Bach, one of the Scarlatti’s, Vivaldi, etc. The Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) offers something stronger. Under the leadership of Paul O’Dette and {…}
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Bella Voce Announces 2024-25 Season

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Chicago-based Bella Voce has announced its 2024–2025 season: Odysseys, a musical expedition of evocative and enduring works of the early music repertoire. The season opens with “Iberia and the Americas.” The program is a sacred polyphony from new-world peninsulares as well as composers indigenous to the Americas. The a cappella program features works by Vicente Lusitano, Francisco López Capillas, and {…}
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Haymarket Opera Company Unveils its 2024 Season

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(Photo credit: Elliot Mandel) Haymarket Opera Company has announced its 2024 season. The season kicks off with “La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista.” Mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron makes her Haymarket debut, along with bass-baritone Christian Pursell as Herod and tenor Eric Ferring. Sopranos Erica Schuller and Kristen Knutson return to Haymarket. Craig Trompeter leads the chamber ensemble. Performance Date: March 22, {…}
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Boston Early Music Festival 2023 Review: The Dragon of Wantley

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Credit: Kathy Wittman It might be ingenuous to say, but in one’s opinion any opera that features a dragon singing a long melisma on the word “whore,” especially when it follows the ominous words “son of a,” is an unforgettable piece of theater. “The Dragon of Wantley” is based on the old legend that a dragon roamed South Yorkshire, a {…}
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Nola Richardson, Lauren Snouffer, Karim Sulayman, Erica Schuller Headlines Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2025-26 Season

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Ars Lyrica Houston has unveiled its 2025-26 season. It starts with “Bach’s Divine Comedy” featuring such works as “Fürchte dich nicht” BWV 228 and “The Dispute between Phoebus & Pan” BWV 201. Hannah DePriest, Andréa Walker, Jay Carter, Michael Skarke, Matthew Newhouse, Thomas O’Neill, Tom Meglioranza, and Timothy Jones are the vocal soloists. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2025 “Love Untamed” will {…}
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Cecilia Duarte, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Erica Schuller, Camille Ortiz, Nola Richardson Headline Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2024-25 Season

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Ars Lyrica Houston has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is “In Praise of Virtue” starring Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Hannah DePriest. The program features works by Händel, Bach, and Hasse, as well as a Concerto by Telemann. Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2024 Next up is Monteverdi’s “Madrigals of Love and War” featuring such vocal soloists as Erica Schuller, Amia Langer, {…}
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Northern Ireland Opera’s Glenarm Festival of the Voice Names 2022 Winner

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Tenor Owen Lucas has been named the winner of the Northern Ireland Opera’s 12th Glenarm Festival of the Voice. The tenor took home the Deborah Voigt Opera Prize and the Audience prize, which is sponsored by The Londonberry Arms, Carnlough. Meanwhile, soprano Hannah O’Brien earned the Song Prize, which is sponsored by The Priests Charitable Trust. The final round of {…}

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