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Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Catalina Cuervo Headline Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend In North America

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It’s time for another weekend of opera, with a wide range of impressive offerings coming from around the continent. This week’s selections include a number of repertory staples as well as some unique modern operas by living composers. Frida – Atlanta Opera, Georgia The Atlanta Opera closes out its production of “Frida” with two performances on Friday and Sunday. The {…}
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Nicole Heaston Steps Into San Francisco Opera’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

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(Credit: T. Charles Erickson) Nicole Heaston is set to make her San Francisco Opera debut in “Le Nozze di Figaro,” replacing Jennifer Davis as the Contessa Almaviva. The San Francisco Opera made the announcement on Friday, noting that Davis had been set to make her American opera debut with the role, but was forced to withdraw from the production due {…}
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Benjamin Appl & Jennifer Johnston Headline Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2019-20 Season

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The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Soprano Anna Crookes will be joined by flutist Fiona Fulton, cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, and pianist Ian Buckle of Pixels Ensemble to perform works by Hildegard of Bingen, Dani Howard, George Crumb, Luciano Berio, and Maurice Ravel. Performance Date: {…}
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Jamie Barton, Joyce DiDonato & Sarah Connolly Headline BBC Proms 2019

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2019 festival featuring some of the great singers, performers and orchestras in the world. For this season announcement we will concentrate on the vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber leads the BBC Proms Youth Choir and BBC Philharmonic in Haydn’s “The Creation.” He is joined by soloists Sarah-Jane Brandon, Benjamin Hulett, and Christoph Pohl. Performance Date: July 29, {…}
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Arizona Opera 2018-19 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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With an excellent cast and fine playing from the orchestra under Conductor Dean Williamson, Arizona Opera presented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at Phoenix Symphony Hall on April 5, 2019. Moral High Ground Stage Director Tara Faircloth chose to expand upon the amusing situations in Lorenzo da Ponte’s libretto, so that cast members were often running around the {…}
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Barrie Kosky’s ‘Magic Flute’ Headlines Mostly Mozart Festival 2019

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The Mostly Mozart Festival has announced its 2019 festival, which is set to feature a number of stage productions, contemporary concerts and some of the world’s greatest musicians. For this article we will focus mainly on vocal events and opera. \ Opera  The operatic selection for the Mostly Mozart festival is set to include Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s production of {…}
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Opera Forward Festival 2019 Review: Caruso a Cuba

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In 1920, the world famous tenor Enrico Caruso was in Cuba to sing the part of Radamès in Verdi’s “Aida,” for which he was to receive the princely sum of $10,000 per performance. During the rehearsals Caruso was in an anxious state, arising from his health problems, exacerbated by the Caribbean heat, and the threats he was receiving from the {…}
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Top 5 Operas to See This Weekend – International (10/5-7)

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This week the opera world will get a chance to see a world premiere, a rarely performed work, a season-opening and two new productions with distinguished casts. Among the performers this week are Pretty Yende, Irene Theorin, Sonya Yoncheva, and Javier Camarena. Here is a look at what to see. Lohengrin-Vlaanderen Opera, Belgium Zoran Todorovich sings the title role in Wagner’s {…}
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Opera National Du Rhin’s 2018-19 Season To Feature Julie Fuchs, Anne-Catherine Gillet, & Yijie Shi

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The Opera National du Rhin’s 2018-19 season has been announced and with it, there are a number of new productions, recitals, and festival programs that will provide a diverse amount of operatic events. Productions  The opera season opens with Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” starring Yijie Shi, Leon Kosavic, Marina Viotti, and Carlo Lepore. Michele Gamba conducts the new production {…}

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