Omer Meir Wellber to Become Hamburg Staatsoper General Music Director and Chief Conductor

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Omer Meir Wellber will become Hamburg Staatsoper‘s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, beginning with the 2025-26 season, and will succeed Kent Nagano. Dr. Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media while introducing Wellber at City Hall, said, “With Omer Meir Wellber, we have been able to win an outstanding artistic personality for the cultural city {…}

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Reina Sofia School of Music Names New Professor of Voice Chair

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Madrid’s Reina Sofia School of Music has named Julia Banse as its new head professor of the Alfredo Kraus” Fundación Ramón Areces Voice Chair for the 2023-24 academic year. Banse will take over the position, which was previously held by such artists as Alfredo Kraus, Teresa Berganza, Tom Krause, Ryland Davies, Francisco Araiza, and her predecessor Susan Bullock CBE. The Chair {…}

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Opera Profile: Alice in Wonderland

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“Alice in Wonderland” is a eight-scene, contemporary opera by Korean composer Unsuk Chin (1961-) with the libretto co-written by Chin and eminent Chinese-American writer David Henry Hwang, the librettist for other composers such as Huang Ro, Osvaldo Golijov, and Phillip Glass. The opera was composed between 2004 and 2007 and based upon the novels Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and {…}

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Berlin Philharmonic Announces Conductor Change for Performance

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(Credit: Sergio Veranes Studio) Christian Thielemann has canceled his upcoming concert with the Berlin Philharmonic. The orchestra said that “unfortunately Christian Thielemann had to cancel his appearance conducting the concert on 11 December due to scheduling issues. The Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker are very grateful to Kent Nagano for taking over the conducting {…}

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Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Il Viaggio, Dante

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) To mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Aligheri’s death in September 1321, the Aix-en-Provence festival staged the world premier of French composer Pascal Dusapin’s opera “Il Viaggio, Dante,” based upon the poet’s iconic narrative poem “The Divine Comedy.” To say that this is an ambitious undertaking is an understatement, especially as the work has been compressed into {…}

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Natalya Romaniw, Benjmain Bernheim, Pretty Yende, & Saioa Hernández lead Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2022-23 Season

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The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2022-23 season featuring five new productions and its Italian festival. Premiere Tomislav Mužek, Maria Kataeva, Elbenita Kajtazi, and Guanqun Yu lead Bizet’s “Carmen” in a new conducted by Yoel Gamzou and directed by Herbert Fritsch. Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2022-May 23, 2023 Kent Nagano conducts a new production of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” with {…}

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Opéra National de Paris to Present ‘A Quiet Place’

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(Credit: Vincent Pontet) The Opéra National de Paris is set to present historic premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place” starting on March 9, 2022. This series of performances represents the first time that the work is brought to the stage in France. The opera, which will be presented at the Palais Garnier, will be directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and {…}

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Joyce DiDonato, Benjamin Bernheim, Emőke Baráth & Ian Bostridge Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get solo albums by one of the great mezzos of her generation and two baroque albums. There is also a debut album and a new DVD of Offenbach’s masterwork. Here is a look at this week’s new releases. Eden Joyce DiDonato releases her latest album featuring music by Handel, Gluck, Wagner, Mahler, Ives, Copland, and Oscar-winner {…}

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Obituary: Tenor Rafael Rojas Dies at 59

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Tenor Rafael Rojas has died at the age of 59. The Mexican tenor died on Tuesday Jan. 19, 2022 but no cause of death was revealed. Born in Mexico, Rojas studied at the University of Guadalajara and subsequently joined the post-graduate opera course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama‚ completing his studies at the Royal Northern College of {…}

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Omer Meir Wellber to Become Hamburg Staatsoper General Music Director and Chief Conductor

Reina Sofia School of Music Names New Professor of Voice Chair

Opera Profile: Alice in Wonderland

Berlin Philharmonic Announces Conductor Change for Performance

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2022 Review: Il Viaggio, Dante

Natalya Romaniw, Benjmain Bernheim, Pretty Yende, & Saioa Hernández lead Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2022-23 Season

Opéra National de Paris to Present ‘A Quiet Place’

Joyce DiDonato, Benjamin Bernheim, Emőke Baráth & Ian Bostridge Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Obituary: Tenor Rafael Rojas Dies at 59