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News, Season Announcement

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau, Elīna Garanča, Golda Schultz, Sonya Yoncheva, Cecilia Bartoli & Benjamin Bernheim Lead Opernhaus Zürich’s 2025-26 Season

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The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the productions and concerts. Premieres  Simon Steen-Andersen and Liliana Nikiteanu lead “Wie du warst! Wie du bist!”  Performance Dates: Sept. 20, 2025-July 11, 2026 Diana Damrau, Günther Groissböck, Angela Brower, Bo Skovhus, and Emily Pogorelc star in a new production Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier.” Joana Mallwitz conducts the {…}

News, Season Announcement

Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, Marina Rebeka, Bryn Terfel, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez & Pretty Yende Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Oliver Mears. Anna Netrebko and Aleksandra Kurzak share the title role. Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley also star. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 7, 2025 Speranza Scappucci conducts Verdi’s “I vespri siciliani” in a revival of Stefan Herheim’s production. Marina {…}

News, Season Announcement

Joyce DiDonato, Asmik Grigorian, Piotr Beczala, Sonya Yoncheva, Lisette Oropesa Headline Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. New Productions The season opens on a Sunday with Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s  “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” in its Met Opera premiere. Bartlett Sher directs and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a cast starring Lauren Snouffer, Sun-Ly Pierce, Miles Mykkanen, Patrick Carfizzi, Craig Colclough, and Andrzej Filoncyzk. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}

News

Opéra de Paris Announces Cast Change for ‘Rigoletto’

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(Credit: Emil Matveev / Askonas Holt Official Website) The Opéra de Paris has announced a cast change for its Dec. 22 performance of “Rigoletto.” The company said that Kristina Mkhitaryan will sing the role of Gilda stepping in for an ill Rosa Feola. In a statement via social media Feola said, “Dear all, unfortunately, I had to cancel my performance {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2024-25 Review: Rigoletto

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This season the Paris Opera is reviving “Rigoletto” in Claus Guth’s 2016 stark production. Verdi’s work is known for its memorable arias and melodies and is perhaps one of the most difficult works for baritone. It is also a gritty plot that has been reinterpreted in many different ways, sometimes revealing its darker layers. But in other instances, reinterpretations have {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Eugene Onegin

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(Photo: Tristram Kenton) “Eugene Onegin,” Tchaikovsky’s reworking of Pushkin’s verse novel into seven ‘lyric scenes,’ has not been seen on the Covent Garden stage for nearly a decade. Ted Huffman’s new staging would have been an event for that reason alone, but its significance was underlined by the fact that it sees one of the most striking young directors making {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Charles Castronovo, Nadine Sierra & Bryn Terfel Highlight New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences get to hear a new album by one of opera’s leading tenors and watch a video of one of Donizetti’s comic gems featuring a leading soprano and a superstar bass-baritone. Voices from the Other Side The new work from composer {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House Muscat 2023-24 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo: Khalid Al-Busaidi) On October 14th, 2011, the Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) opened its doors for its inaugural season with a production of Puccini’s “Turandot,” with the aim of establishing itself as a “centre of excellence in global cultural engagement.” It is a noble and ambitious aim, for sure, but for a country without a tradition of opera, it {…}

News, Streaming

Streaming Platform Stage + Releases New Recordings From Anna Netrebko, Nadine Sierra & Elīna Garanča

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Deutsche Grammophon’s streaming platform Stage + has released new recordings from Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča and Nadine Sierra. The platform released a 2019 recording of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” from the Arena di Verona starring Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, and Luca Salsi. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts the Franco Zeffirelli production. The platform also released a 2021 recording of Verdi’s {…}