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Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Announces 2024-25 Season

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The Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Los Elementos joins Alberto Miguélez Rouco and soloists Natalie Pérez, Jone Martínez, Carol García, Aurora Peña, Alicia Amo, María Espada, and Judit Subirana for Corselli’s “La cautela en la amistad y robo de las sabinas.” Performance Date: Nov. 10, 2024 Los {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Asmik Grigorian, Nicholas Brownlee, Juan Diego Flórez & Joyce DiDonato Lead Palau de Les Arts’ 2024-25 Season

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Palau de les Arts in Valencia has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Gorges Ocloo’s “The Golden Stool” will star Nobulumko Mngxekeza-Nziramasanga and Nonkululeko Nkwinti. Performance Dates: Sept. 19, 2024 Lisette Oropesa sings the title role of Massenet’s “Manon” with Carles Pachon and Charles Castronovo. James Gaffigan conducts the production by Vincent Huguet. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-15, 2024 Elena Stikhina, Piero {…}

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‘The Opera Locos’ Makes London Premiere at the Peacock Theatre

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(Photo credit: Sadler’s Wells) The award-winning Spanish theatre company Yllana brings the London premiere of “The Opera Locos” to the Peacock Theatre. Marc Álvarez’s “The Opera Locos” features music from classic operas including Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” Verdi’s “La Traviata,” Puccini’s “La Boèhme” and “Madama Butterfly,” Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” and Bizet’s “Carmen,” among others alongside pop and rock hits {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Festival 2023 Review: The Indian Queen

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Photo credit: © SF/Marco Borrell It might be unfair to name Purcell as the composer of “The Indian Queen.” The opera, left unfinished, has been restored from the composer’s fragments mostly through the efforts of Teodor Currentzis and Peter Sellars. They managed to give some theatrical shape to the arias and added music from elsewhere in Purcell’s corpus that made {…}

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Eleonora Buratto, Javier Camarena & Francesco Meli Lead Palau de les Arts’ 2023-24 Season

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Valencia’s Palau de les Arts’ 2023-24 season featuring opera, recitals, concerts, and zarzuela. Opera Dima Orsho and Carla Nahadi Babelegoto star in “Women at Point Zero.” Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2023 James Gaffigan conducts Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” in Richard Jones’ production. The cast includes Arsen Soghomonyan, Doris Soffel, Ekaterina Guseva, Elena Maximova, Roman Burdenko, and Nikolay Zemlianskikh. Performance {…}

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Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Julia Kleiter & Sabina Puértolas Orquesta & Coro Nacionales de España’s 2022-23 Season

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The Orquesta and Coro Nacionales de España have announced their 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances for the season. The season opens with György Ligeti’s Requiem and Richard Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie conducted by David Afkham with soloists Jenny Daviet and Barbara Kozelj. Performance Dates: Sept. 23-25, 2022 György Ligeti’s Atmosphères and Antonín Dvořák’s Te Deum and {…}

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Iván Ayón-Rivas Makes Major Return to Lima

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Tenorr Iván Ayón-Rivas is set to perform a concert in Lima on March 25, 2022. The concert will include pieces by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, among others composers. “Iván returns to his country after winning international awards, he’s career is growing everyday. He will perform arias from operas, zarzuela and also popular songs. He will sing accompanied by an {…}

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Teatro Enrique de la Cuadra To Present Zarzuela ‘La Patria Chica’ to Celebrate Quintero Brothers’ 150th Anniversary

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The Teatro Enrique de la Cuadra in Sevilla, Spain is set to present Serafín and Joaquín Álvarez Quintero’s “La Patria Chica” on Oct. 23, 2021.  The zarzuela is being presented as part of the 150th anniversary of the Quintero brothers and will star José Luis, Rafa Casette, Alejandro Rull de las Heras, Marta García-Morales, Andrés Merino, Alicia Naranjo, Karmelo Peña, {…}

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Festival de Granada Announces 2021 Season Featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci, Matthias Goerne & Christian Gerhaher

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The Festival de Granada has announced its 2021 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on vocal and operatic performances. Mezzo-soprano Gloria Oya headlines a benefit concert for the Asociación pro Inteligencia Límite y Asociación Síndrome de Down de Granada. The concert is entitled “Mujeres de Lorca y dos canciones de amor.” Performance Date: June 19, {…}