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- {…}

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Leontyne Price, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo & At Home Gala Headline Weeks 13 & 14 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced Weeks 13 and 14 of its nightly streams. The streams will include music by Mozart, Bartok, Rossini, Handel, Verdi, and Glass. Also, audiences will get a chance to check out the At Home Gala once again. Monday, June 8 – Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito Conducted by Harry Bicket; starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, {…}

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Eurasia Festival To Celebrate Tchaikovsky with Virtual Summer Opera Institute

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Celebrating the 180th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth, the Eurasia Festival will be launching its Summer Opera Institute. This Zoom-based workshop series will allow singers from around to world to study roles from some of the famous Russian composer’s operas through group diction classes, individual coaching sessions, and more. Interested artists are asked to submit a form of interest in lieu {…}

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Queen City Opera To Stream All Past Productions

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Queen City Opera is joining the ranks of opera companies around the world who are giving audiences a chance to check out a past production online. The Cincinnati-based company is now its complete history of production available for free online via its QueenCityOpera.org and on YouTube. Among the offerings are three Mozart operas including “Don Giovanni,” “Zaide,” and “Bastien und {…}

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Deutsche Oper Am Rhein & Teatro Real Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced the nominees for its 2020 Awards. The annual event, which celebrates achievement in opera around the globe over the 2019 calendar year, recognizes excellence in a wide range of categories that cover performance, design and direction, as well as education and outreach. This year, two opera companies topped the 2020 nominees with three a {…}

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Royal College Of Music Opera Studio to Present French Triple Bill

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(Image Source: Royal College of Music Facebook page) This season, the RCM Opera Studio will showcase a triple bill of French-language operas from Britten, Debussy and Ravel. The first work to be presented is the Britten’s contemplative song cycle “Les Illuminations” that features settings of Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry with a soprano soloist performing alongside string orchestra. RCM Opera Studio will {…}

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ROH’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme Adds Four New Singers

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The Jette Parker Young Artists Programme has announced four new singers set to join in Sept. 2020. The singers include British soprano Alexandra Lowe, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Kseniia Nikolaieva, Russian tenor Egor Zhuravskii, and Congolese bass Blaise Malaba. These four artists were picked from a pool of 424 applicants from more than 25 countries. Lowe is currently a National Opera Studio {…}

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Francesco Meli, Irina Lungu & Lawrence Brownlee Highlight New National Theatre, Tokyo’s 2020-21 Season

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The New National Theatre, Tokyo has announced its 2020-21 season, featuring four new productions and six revivals. Here is a look at what to expect next season. New Productions The new season Opens with the company premiere of Britten’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a new production by David McVicar originally seen at La Monnaie in Brussels. The opera is {…}

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Q & A: Valentina Nafornița On Her New Album & Her Development In Vienna

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(Credit: Dragosh Cojocaru) In 2011, Moldovian soprano Valentina Nafornița won the first prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and quickly became an ensemble member of the Wiener Staatsoper. From that moment on, she obtained a number of important assignments around the world, making debuts at the Salzburg Festival, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Opéra de Lausanne, and Opéra {…}

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

Leontyne Price, Anna Netrebko, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo & At Home Gala Headline Weeks 13 & 14 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

Eurasia Festival To Celebrate Tchaikovsky with Virtual Summer Opera Institute

Queen City Opera To Stream All Past Productions

Deutsche Oper Am Rhein & Teatro Real Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

Royal College Of Music Opera Studio to Present French Triple Bill

ROH’s Jette Parker Young Artist Programme Adds Four New Singers

Francesco Meli, Irina Lungu & Lawrence Brownlee Highlight New National Theatre, Tokyo’s 2020-21 Season

Q & A: Valentina Nafornița On Her New Album & Her Development In Vienna