The Crossing Announces Its 2019-20 Season

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Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include several world premieres. Dan Henriksson and Donald Nally will direct the choral-theatre work “Aniara: fragments of time and space,” presented by Finnish National Opera at Almi Hall in Helsinki. The Crossing will be joined by Klockriketeatern, with featured performers Matti Raita and Carl Alm. Performance Dates: Sept. 16 {…}

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Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci & Maria Josè Siri Highlight Teatro Carlo Felice’s 2019-20 Season

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The Teatro Carlo Felice has announced its 2019-20 season featuring a number of great stars and new productions. Giuseppe Talamo stars in the title role of Enjott Schneider’s “Marco Polo” with a cast that includes Xiaotong Cao, Yunpeng Wang, Ying Liu, Haojiang Tian, Kejia Xiong, Enrico Rinaldo, Davide Bartolucci, and Xu Shuai. Muhai Tang conducts Kasper Holten’s production. Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2019 Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” returns with {…}

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Canadian Opera Company Leads Dora Awards Nominations

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The Dora Award nominations have been announced with the Canadian Opera leading the way. In the Outstanding Production category, the Canadian Opera’s production of “La Bohème,” “Hadrian,” “Otello,” and “Eugene Onegin” are nominated alongside “Kopernikus” for the Against the Grain Theatre. Meanwhile, in the Outstanding Performance by an Individual category, Angel Blue, Ambur Braid, Gerald Finley, Thomas Hampson, Tamara Wilson, {…}

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Enea Scala, Asmik Grigorian & Christopher Maltman Highlight Oper Frankfurt’s 2019-20 Season

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Oper Frankfurt’s new season is massive. It is loaded up with over a dozen new productions and even more revivals. Premieres Damiano Michieletto directs a new production of Rossini’s “Otello” starring Enea Scala in the title role, Karolina Makuła as Desdemona, Theo Lebow as Iago, and Jack Swanson as Rodrigo. Sesto Quatrini conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 8-Oct. 20, 2019 Asmik Grigorian sings {…}

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Elena Stikhina & Kyle Ketelsen Lead Grand Theatre Genève’s 2019-20 Season

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The Grand Theatre Geneve has announced its 2019 season featuring eight productions. Check it our right here. The season opens with Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s monumental opera “Einstein on the Beach.“ The work is set to be conducted by Titus Engel with Daniele Finzi Pasca directing the work. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-18, 2019 Serena Farnocchia and Elena Stikhina share the {…}

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‘The Phoenix,’ ‘Götterdämmerung’ Among Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend – North America (4/26-28)

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It seems like this is the weekend of the year. While the entire planet is engaged with the cinematic event of the decade (Marvel’s “Avengers: Endgame”), opera companies from around the continent are lining up some of their most exciting productions. As a result, this was one of the most challenging lists to create in quite some time. But we {…}

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Stuart Skelton, James Rutherford and Atalla Ayan highlight the Norwegian National Opera’s 2019-20 season

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The Norwegian National Opera announced its plans for the 2019-20 season. Here is the lineup: The season open with Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” in a production by British director Oliver Mears. Operalia Competition winner Luis Gomes sings Nemorino opposite Andrea Carroll’s Adina. Baritone Andrei Kymach and Bass-baritone Günes Gürle will sing Belcore and Dulcamara, respectively. The conductor will be Daniel Smith. {…}

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Q & A: Tenor Kristian Benedikt On ‘Samson et Dalila’ & Opera Culture Around The World

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Lithuanian tenor Kristian Benedikt made headlines last fall when he replaced Roberto Alagna in the third act of “Samson et Dalila” at the Metropolitan Opera. It was his Metropolitan Opera debut and it came months before he was officially supposed to take the stage of the legendary house. Now he is ready for his official debut where he will perform {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Anna Netrebko & Nina Stemme Headline At Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2019-20 Season

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2019-20 season, which will include six new productions and dozens of revivals with some of opera’s greatest stars. New Productions The first new production of the season will be Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino.” The production will be directed by Frank Castorf and will star Russell Thomas and Marcelo Alvarez as Don Alvaro. {…}

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The Crossing Announces Its 2019-20 Season

Barbara Frittoli, Leo Nucci & Maria Josè Siri Highlight Teatro Carlo Felice’s 2019-20 Season

Canadian Opera Company Leads Dora Awards Nominations

Enea Scala, Asmik Grigorian & Christopher Maltman Highlight Oper Frankfurt’s 2019-20 Season

Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Elena Stikhina & Kyle Ketelsen Lead Grand Theatre Genève’s 2019-20 Season

‘The Phoenix,’ ‘Götterdämmerung’ Among Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend – North America (4/26-28)

Stuart Skelton, James Rutherford and Atalla Ayan highlight the Norwegian National Opera’s 2019-20 season

Q & A: Tenor Kristian Benedikt On ‘Samson et Dalila’ & Opera Culture Around The World

Sondra Radvanovsky, Anna Netrebko & Nina Stemme Headline At Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2019-20 Season