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Q & A: Meghan Picerno on Taking Her Career in Stride to Somewhere Extraordinary

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(Photo: Murphy Made) Acclaimed coloratura soprano Meghan Picerno is the recipient of several awards in the field of opera, including first-place prize at the Arkadi International Vocal Competition at New York Lyric Opera. She was also a quarterfinalist in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia International Vocal Competition at the Royal Opera House. But Ms. Picerno’s star truly began to rise after her {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Marina Rebeka, Diana Damrau & Nino Machadize Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will experience albums from some of the top divas in the opera world as well as Christmas albums that will be great for the holiday season. Essence Marina Rebeka releases a new album on Prima Classic. The soprano sings a selection {…}
News

City Opera Vancouver Announces Free Summer Concerts

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City Opera Vancouver has unveiled a slate of free summer concerts. The Friday performances will take place at Sun Yat-Sen Courtyard in Chinatown while Saturday shows will be featured at the Milton Wong Plaza in Olympic Village. Finally, the Sunday concerts will take place at The Roundhouse Turntable in Yaletown. The first concert is “Ukrainochka,” dedicated to the music of {…}
News

Deutsche Grammophon to Release World Premiere Recording of ‘Émigré’ in 2024

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Deutsche Grammophon is set to record the world premiere of Aaron Zigman and Mark Campbell’s “Émigré.” The 90-minute oratorio will have its world premiere on Nov. 17, 2023 at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall before heading to the U.S. for a performance at David Geffen Hall in New York City on Feb. 29, 2024. The two performances will feature Ben {…}
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Taiwan’s National Theater and Concert Hall Unveils Summer 2023 Season

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Taiwan’s National Theater and Concert Hall’s (NTCH) summer season has begun. Here’s what audiences have to look forward to. For the purposes of this article, only vocal performances are listed. NTCH presents Soprano Lin Ciyin in recital. Performance Date: June 24, 2023 NTCH will present the concert version of Verdi’s “Aida” Acts one and two starring Lin Ciyin as Aida, {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2022-23 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo Credit: @Guergana Damianova – OnP) When Claus Guth’s spatial version of “La Bohème” opened in 2017, the Opéra Bastille shook with all the insults it received. Puccini’s opera is often understood as an artefact, and productions will flirt with disaster if they do not depict a snow-globe Paris, crystallized in everyone’s mind. Guth did not abandon a visually beautiful {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra de Paris 2022-23 Review: Nixon in China

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Performing “Nixon in China” nowadays is a particularly hard task: in Paris, mountains of burning trash compete with the buildings; In the United States, a series of attacks on the arts and on intellectual freedom headlines newspapers; And most importantly, war is happening not so far away from France. John Adams and Alice Goodman’s “Nixon in China” addresses today’s realities {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Dortmund 2023 Review: Nixon in China

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Photo: Anke Sundermeier In 1972, President Nixon made his historic visit to China. The event, at the time, was seen as a pivotal moment in establishing political relations with a country that, since World War Two, had remained largely closed to the wider international community. The significance of Nixon’s visit was reflected in the fact that it received widespread media {…}

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