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Carlo Vistoli Wins San Francisco Opera’s Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition

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San Francisco Opera has announced that Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli has won the 2023–24 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition for his American stage and role debut in Händel’s “Partenope.” Vistoli was named 2024 Emerging Star of the Year based on a popular vote conducted online at sfopera.com from July 11 to August 2, 2024. As the {…}
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San Francisco Opera Announces Emerging Stars Competition Nominees

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The San Francisco Opera has announced the 2023-24 Emerging Stars Competition. The Emerging Stars Competition, made possible by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, is a fund for opera singers who have made their mark on the grand stage. The company added, that through the Emerging Stars Fund, Jan and Maria help bring some of opera’s most exciting rising talents {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Announces 2024 Summer HD Festival

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024 Summer HD Festival. the company will present HD recordings on the Lincoln Center Plaza from August 23, through September 2. The free festival will feature ten screenings from the Met’s celebrated Live in HD series and will also include a special screening of the 1998 film “The Red Violin,” directed by François Girard {…}
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Jonathan Tetelman, Aigul Akhmetshina, Aušrine Stundyte, David Butt Philip & Sondra Radvanovsky lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2024-25 Season

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The Deustche Oper Berlin has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Respighi’s “La Fiamma” will be directed by Christof Loy and conducted by Carlo Rizzi. The cast will include Aušrine Stundyte, Georgy Vasiliev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Martina Serafin, Sua Jo, Cristina Toledo, Martina Baroni, Karis Tucker, Caren Van Oijen, Doris Soffel, and Patrick Guetti. Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 18, 2024 Enrique Mazzola {…}
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Yolanda Auyanet, Karine Deshayes, Stéphane Degout & José Cura lead Opéra National du Capitole de Toulouse’s 2024-25 Season

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The Opéra national du Capitole de Toulouse has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Verdi’s “Nabucco” with Stefano Poda directing. Gezym Myshketa, Aleksei Isaev, Yolanda Auyanet, Catherine Hunold, Jean-François Borras, Nicolas Courjal, Sulkhan Jaiani, and Irina Sherazadishvili star. Performance Dates: Sept. 24-Oct. 6, 2024 Stefan Plewniak conducts a concert performance of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Sonya Yoncheva stars. {…}
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Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Forza del Destino’ Set for HD Broadcast

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(Credit: Karen Almond/Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s production of Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” is set to be transmitted in Live in HD on March 9, 2024. The production will star Lise Davidsen, Brian Jagde, Igor Golovatenko, Judit Kutasi, Patrick Carfizzi, and Soloman Howard. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the performance. The production is the third Met staging from award-winning director Mariusz Treliński {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: La Forza del Destino

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(Credit: Karen Almond) It’s been a long time since “La Forza del Destino” got a chance on the Met stage. To be exact, it’s been about 18 years. Back then, in 2006, the Verdi melodrama was presented in an imposing traditionally-set production with a cast of Italianate voices. It was supposed to return a decade later in a new production {…}
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Lise Davidsen, Benjamin Bernheim, Freddie De Tommaso, Angel Blue, Piotr Beczala Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 Live in HD Slate

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The Metropolitan Opera has its Live in HD series for the 2024-25 season. “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” opens the Live in HD season. The opera stars Benjamin Bernheim, Christian Van Horn, Clémentine Margaine, Pretty Yende, and Erin Morley. Marco Armiliato conducts. Screening Date: Oct. 5, 2024 Next up is “Grounded.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast starring Emily D’Angelo, Kirsten MacKinnon, Ben Bliss, {…}
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Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Angel Blue, Lise Davidsen & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. New Productions  Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s “Aida” in a new production by Michael Mayer. Angel Blue, Judit Kutasi, Piotr Beczała, Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, and Morris Robbinson. Alexander Soddy conducts the second cast with Christina Nilsson, Elīna Garanča, Brian Jagde, Eri Owens, Michael Chioldi, Amartüvshin Enkhbatyn, Alexander Vinogradov, and Krzysztof Bączyk. John {…}

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