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Julia Bullock, Gustavo Dudamel & Isabel Leonard Lead LA Philharmonic’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of important stars and conductors. For the purposes of this article, we will only highlight vocal performances. The season opens with Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Peer Gynt selections with Gustavo Dudamel conducting Lang Lang. The program also includes John Adams’ Short Ride in {…}

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Gregory Kunde, Clémentine Margaine, & Florian Sempey Headline ‘Meyerbeer Month’ at Deutsche Oper Berlin

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(Photo Source: Gregory Kunde Tenor Official Webpage) Deutsche Oper Berlin will showcase three operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer, starting on Feb. 2, 2020 and ending on March 8, 2020. The first Meyerbeer opera to take the stage on Feb. 2, 2020 will be “Les Huguenots.” The cast will include Liv Redpath, Seth Carico, Dimitris Tiliakos, Olesya Golovneva, Irene Roberts, Jörg Schörner, {…}

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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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Adriana Gonzalez & Xabier Anduaga Win Top Operalia Awards

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Xabier Anduaga and Adriana Gonzalez have taken home first prize at the Operalia Competition. The two singers also won the zarzuela prizes. Anduaga won the Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize while Gonzalez won the Pepita Embil Prize. Second prize went to baritone Gihoon Kim and mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva while third prize went to soprano Christina Nilsson and countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen. {…}

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Plácido Domingo Announces Operalia Competition 2019 Finalists, With A Twist

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The Operalia Competition has revealed the 12 finalists who will be competing for its top prize on Friday, July 26, 2019. The 12 finalists included Felicia Moore, Gihoon Kim, Christina Nilsson, Piotr Buszewski, Xabier Anduaga, Bongani Justice Kubheka, Liv Redpath, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Anna Shapovalova, Maria Kataeva, Adriana Gonzalez, and Mario Bahg. While making the announcement, legendary singer Plácido Domingo noted {…}

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Operalia Competition Announces Semi-Finalists

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The Operalia Competition has announced its semifinalists for both the opera and zarzuela competition. Audiences will be able to view the semifinals via live stream on Operalia’s Facebook page. In the opera competition, audiences will see baritone Germán Alcántara, tenor Xabier Anduaga, tenor Mario Bahg, tenor, soprano Lada Bočková, tenor Piotr Buszewski, soprano Adriana Gonzalez, mezzo-soprano Maria Kataeva, baritone Gihoon Kim, {…}

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Cincinnati Opera 2019 Review: Ariadne Auf Naxos

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(Credit: Philip Groshong) In Greek myth, Theseus cruelly abandons Ariadne on a desert island, but she’s ultimately rescued by Bacchus. Cincinnati Opera, by contrast, abandons Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” to a gimmicky concept from which no rescue is possible. As the rewards — such as they were — of this production proved musical in nature, this review will begin {…}

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Ben Bliss, Emily D’Angelo Among Stars Of Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend (North America)

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There are four operas that rarely get performances in North America, making them all the more essential viewing for the weekend. Here are our top five operas to see this weekend (in alphabetical order by company). Billy Budd – Central City Opera Britten’s masterwork kicks off on Saturday with a production conducted by John Baril and directed by Ken Cazan. {…}

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The Operalia Competition Has Announced Contestants For 2019

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The Operalia Competition has announced the singers that will be competing this year in Prague. They include 12 sopranos, six mezzo-sopranos, 10 tenors, three basses, eight baritones, one bass-baritone, and one counter tenor. 10 contestants appear from the USA with five from Russia, three from South Korea, and two from South Africa. The host nation gets one representative in the {…}