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Joyce El-Khoury, Davone Tines, Matthias Winckhler, & Núria Rial Star in L’Auditori’s 2025-26 Season

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(Photo credit: Gisela Schenker) L’Auditori presents its 2025-26 season, “Renaixements.” For the purpose of this article only vocal works are included. Beethoven’s “Symphony” No. 9 stars Joyce El-Khoury, Silvia Tro Santafé, Elgan Llyr Thomas, and Davone Tines. They are joined by the Orfeó Català and the Barcelona and National Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC) under the direction of Ludovic Morlot. {…}

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The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Artistic Appointments for 2025–26 Season

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(Photo credits: Gao, Ealovega, & Washburn) Taichi Fukumura, James Feddeck, and Tyler Taylor have joined The Cleveland Orchestra for the 2025-26 season. The role of Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra is filled by Fukumura. With The Cleveland Orchestra, Fukumura will support Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and other guest conductors by serving as cover conductor, in addition to leading various {…}

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Santa Fe Chamber Festival Announces 2025 Season

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The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here are the vocal performances. Liv Redpath and George Fu perform alongside Gilles Vonsattel, Leila Josefowicz, Yura Lee, Paul Watkins, and Todd Levy in a program of music by Schubert, Enescu, and Shostakovich. Performance Dates: July 13 & 14, 2025 Liv Redpath and George Fu perform Wolf, Schubert, Strauss, Grieg, and Debussy. {…}

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Asmik Grigorian, Anna Netrebko, Brian Jagde, Saioa Hernández, Ermonela Jaho, Lisette Oropesa, Jakub Józef Orliński & Nadine Sierra Lead Teatro Real de Madrid’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Otello,” starring Brian Jadge, Jorge de León, and Angelo Villari in the title role. The cast includes Igor Golovatenko, Artur Ruciński, Gabriele Viviani, Airam Hernández, Asmik Grigorian, and Maria Agresta. Nicola Luisotti and Giuseppe Mentuccia conduct the production by David Alden. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}

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Salzburg Easter Festival Announces 2026 Season

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The Salzburg Easter Festival has announced the 2026 season. From 2026 onwards, the Berliner Philharmoniker will again be holding their traditional Easter Festival in Salzburg, the town where Herbert von Karajan founded this Festival in 1967. The season will begin a new ring cycle that will be seen over the next five years. Here is a look at the vocal {…}

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Gustavo Dudamel, Pretty Yende, Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha & Nicholas Brownlee Lead LA Philharmonic’s 2025-26 Season

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The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2025-26 season. Gustavo Dudamel and Los Angeles Master Chorale perform Ellen Reid and Strauss. Performance Dates: Sept. 25-28, 2025 Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Chen Reiss and Beth Taylor. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-12, 2025 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a program of music by Debussy, Gabriella Smith, and Scriabin with soloists Pekka {…}

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Kansas City Symphony Announces 2025-26 Season

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The Kansas City Symphony has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances offered. Matthias Pintscher conducts George Li and the Kansas City Symphony Chorus in a program of music by Nico Muhly, Nicholas Britell, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2025 Händel’s “Messiah” will be performed. Performance Dates: Dec. 5-7, 2025 Matthias Pintscher conducts Rachmaninoff, Toshio Hosokawa, {…}

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Kate Lindsey, Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eleonora Buratto, Aušriné Stundyté, Anja Kampe, Juliana Grigoryan, René Barbera & Elbenita Kajtazi Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2025-26 Season

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The Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Robert Schumann’s “Das Paradies und die Peri” will be directed by Tobias Kratzer and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber and Felix Hornbachner. The work will star Vera-Lotte Boecker, Eliza Boom, Kady Evanyshyn, Kai Kluge, Annika Schlicht, Xavier Sabata, Eric Lunga Hallam, and Christoph Pohl. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Nov. 1, 2025 Glinka’s “Ruslan und Ljudmila” will be {…}

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Bayerische Staatsoper Announces Cast Change for ‘Der Rosenkavalier’

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The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its production of “Der Rosenkavalier.” The company said that Diana Damrau will sing the role of the Marschallin on March 23 and Jacquelyn Wagner on March 26 and 29, 2025 replacing the originally announced Marlis Petersen. Damrau recently made her role debut in the opera at the Berlin State Opera while {…}