Teatro alla Scala & RAI to Stream Opera Daily

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The Teatro alla Scala is teaming up with La RAI to stream operas starting March 23 through April 21. The company announced that RaiPlay will showcase 30 productions including four ballets, that were presented from 2008 through 2019. The productions will remain available for one month On April 6, Rai5 will broadcast an opera from Monday to Friday. On Wednesdays there {…}

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Vienna State Opera to Offer Daily Live Streams From its Opera Archives

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Despite being closed for public performances, the Wiener Staatsoper has resolved to open up its streaming service to provide audiences with daily opera. Starting on Sunday, March 15, 2020, the company will start to stream operas from its archives for free on www.staatsoperlive.com. The online program is set to follow along with the same opera that audiences would have seen {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’

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UPDATE: Here are the schedules for Week 8 Week 9 In an effort to continue providing opera to its audience members, the Met Opera will host “Nightly Met Opera Streams” on its official website to audiences worldwide. These free streams will present encores of past performances from its famed Live in HD series. The encore presentations will begin at 7:30 {…}

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Opernhaus Zurich Cancels Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’

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The Opernhaus Zurich has canceled the March 12 performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company announced that “Juan Diego Flórez canceled the 3 p.m. the performance of “La Bohème” tonight due to illness. Since we are unable to provide an adequate replacement in the short time available and in the current general crisis situation, this performance has unfortunately to be {…}

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Artist Of The Week: Pretty Yende

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Pretty Yende is one of today’s most sought-after sopranos, best known for her charisma and vocal fireworks. She is exciting to watch and has proven herself to be a performer capable of exposing new insights into each character she inhabits. Throughout the past years, the soprano has sung some of the most challenging coloratura roles in the repertory, while putting {…}

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Q & A: Heldentenor Stuart Skelton on His Ongoing Relationship With Wagner’s Music

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(Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke) Few tenors today have the Wagnerian pedigree that Stuart Skelton has. The Australian tenor, who has taken on pretty much every major role by the master of Bayreuth, has opened major productions of Wagner’s operas around the world. In the midst of his recent production of “Die Walküre” at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Operawire had an {…}

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Obituary: Conductor Nello Santi Dies at 88

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Legendary conductor Nello Santi has died at the age of 88. Robert Lombardo, the conductor’s manager confirmed the news. Lombardo stated that the conductor was being treated for a blood infection. Born on Sept. 22, 1931 in Adria, Italy, Santi studied composition at the Liceo musicale of Padua and went on to make his in 1951 debut as a conductor {…}

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The Great Link – Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Operas Experiencing Major Renaissance At Deutsche Oper Berlin

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(Credit: Pierre Petit) When Giacomo Meyerbeer died on May 2 in 1864 in Paris, he was one of the most performed composers of his time. Among the surviving manuscript documents in the Meyerbeer archive in Berlin is to be found a prayer that Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote on 8 December 1863, a few months before his death: “Great almighty God! … {…}

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christine Goerke & Joyce DiDonato Lead Carnegie Hall’s 2020-21 Season

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Carnegie Hall has announced its 2020-21 season featuring some of the greatest soloists and conductors in the world. For this article we will highlight the vocal performances of the season. Orchestras The season opens with the LA Philharmonic performing John Adams’ Tromba Lontana and Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Selections from Peer Gynt. Gustavo Dudamel conducts with soloists Liv Redpath and {…}

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Teatro alla Scala & RAI to Stream Opera Daily

Vienna State Opera to Offer Daily Live Streams From its Opera Archives

Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’

Opernhaus Zurich Cancels Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’

Artist Of The Week: Pretty Yende

Q & A: Heldentenor Stuart Skelton on His Ongoing Relationship With Wagner’s Music

Obituary: Conductor Nello Santi Dies at 88

The Great Link – Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Operas Experiencing Major Renaissance At Deutsche Oper Berlin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christine Goerke & Joyce DiDonato Lead Carnegie Hall’s 2020-21 Season