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Benjamin Bernheim, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier & Asmik Grigorian Lead Opéra de Paris’ 2024-25 Season

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The Opéra de Paris has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera Verdi’s “Falstaff” opens the season with a cast that includes Ambrogio Maestri, Olivia Boen, Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur, Andrei Kymach, Gregory Bonfatti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Iván Ayón-Rivas, and Federica Guida. Michael Schønwandt conducts the production by Dominique Pitoiset. Performance Dates: Sept. 10-30, 2024 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will star Eleonora Buratto, Elena Stikhina, Aude {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Elīna Garanča, Nicholas Brownlee, Lisette Oropesa, Pretty Yende & Christopher Maltman Lead Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2024-25 Season

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres  Tobias Krazter directs a new production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” with Nicholas Brownlee, Milan Siljanov, Sean Panikkar, Markus Brück, Matthias Klink, Matthew Rose, Timo Riihonen, Ekaterina Gubanova, Mirjam Mesak, and Wiebke Lehmkuhl. Vladimir Jurowski conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 27, 2024-July 31, 2025 Damiano Michieletto directs Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” with {…}

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Ermonela Jaho, Freddie de Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2024-25 Season

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Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres First up is Carl Orff’s “Trionfi.” Calixto Bieito directs a cast starring Nicole Chevalier, Florian Panzieri, Sandra Hamaoui, and Oleksiy Palchykov, among others. Kent Nagano conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21 – Oct. 12, 2024 “Der Freischütz” stars Andrzej Dobber, Hubert Kowalczyk, Julia Kleiter, Alina Wunderlin, and Johan Reuter. Yoel Gamzou conducts and Andreas {…}

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Cheif Executive Officer Steps Down

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The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has announced that Madam Madeleine Careau will step down from her position as Chief Executive Officer. Her term will end at the end of the season in June. Careau said that she decided after considering it for some time. In a statement, Careau said, “After careful consideration, I’ve concluded that the time had come for {…}

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Lucerne Festival Announces 2024 Season

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The Lucerne Festival has announced its 2024 season. Here are the vocal performances. Kent Nagano conducts Wagner’s “Die Walküre” with a cast that includes Simon Bailey, Maximilian Schmitt, Sarah Wegener, Åsa Jäger, and Dimitry Ivashchenko. Performance Date: August 21, 2024 The Klangforum Wien, Cantando Admont, and Beat Furrer perform Beat Furrer’s “Begehren.” Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2024 The Jupiter Ensemble, Thomas {…}

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Festival Napa Valley Announces First Look at 2024 Summer Season

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(Photo credit: Ben Wolf & Gregor Hohenberg) Festival Napa Valley has released details of its upcoming season. This article only contains vocal performances. The first “Festival Live!” concert featuring the Frost School of Music’s Blackburn Music Academy kicks off the festival. Performance Dates: July 6 – 20, 2024 Soprano Pretty Yende and tenor Jonathan Tetelman perform with the Festival Orchestra. {…}

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Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini Announces 2023-24 Season

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Parma’s Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber and Christoph Pohl lead a concert of music by Mahler and Schumann. Performance Dates: Nov. 7-11, 2023 Enrico Onofri conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with soloists Sarah Gilford, Valentina Stadler, Julian Hubbard, and Ugo Guagliardo. Performance Date: Jan. 1, 2024 George Petrou conducts {…}

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Bryan Register, Anush Hovhannisyan & Emily D’Angelo Lead Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España’s 2023-24 Season

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The Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the vocal performances. David Afkham opens the season with Rachmaninoff and Elgar. Soloists include Frank Peter Zimmermann, Anush Hovhannisyan, Pavel Petrov, and Anatoli Sivko. Performance Dates: Sept. 22-24, 2023 Juanjo Mena conducts Brindley Sherratt in a program of music by Mussorgsky, Inés Badalo, and Tchaikovsky. Performance {…}

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Layla Claire & Randall Scotting to Headline World Premiere of Hamburg State Opera’s ‘Venere e Adone’

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(Photo by: Lisa-Marie-Mazzucco) The Hamburg Staatsoper will present the world premiere of the new opera “Venere e Adone” by Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino from May 28 to June 8, 2023. The opera will star countertenor Randall Scotting, Layla Claire, Cody Quattlebaum, Matthias Klink, Evan Hughes, Vera Talerko, Nicholas Mogg, and Kady Evanyshyn. Kent Nagano conducts the production directed by Georges {…}