Isabel Leonard, Gianandrea Noseda & Kate Lindsey Highlight National Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Fay Fox) The National Symphony Orcehstra has announced its 2020-21 season. For this article, we will highlight the vocal performances. The season opens with Gianandrea Noseda conducting Isabel Leonard in a program that includes Ravel’s Boléro, arias from “Carmen,” Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol. Performance Dates: Sept. 26, 2020 Gianandrea Noseda conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis {…}

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Rolando Villazón, René Pape, Anja Harteros Highlight Semperoper Dresden’s 2020-21 Season

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(Credit: Jiyang Chen / Marco Borggreve) The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2020-21 season featuring seven new operatic productions and a number of revivals. Here is a look at the operatic productions. Premieres The first new production of the season will be Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell,” written by de Jouy and Bis. The new production by Georg Schmiedleitner will star Christoph {…}

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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Renée Fleming & Christine Goerke Lead San Francisco Symphony’s 2020-21 Season

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The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 season which will feature a number of high-profile vocal performances. Esa-Pekka Salonen opens the season with San Francisco Symphony Collaborative Partners reimagining the music of J.S. Bach and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1. Performance Dates: Oct. 2 & 3, 2020 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bartók’s Piano Concerto and “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Yefim Bronfman performs the piano concerto {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

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Richard Eyre’s production of “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Metropolitan Opera is far from perfect. But what it has proven to be over the years, is durable and a blast for audiences and performers alike. Despite its metallic set that seems to swallow up sound from the stage, there is no doubt that its revivals are often fantastic experiences {…}

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Amanda Woodbury Replaces Anita Hartig at Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The company announced that Amanda Woodbury will sing the Countess in all upcoming performances replacing Anita Hartig, who is ill. The American soprano won the Met’s National Council Auditions and has performed with the company since 2015. At the Met she has performed Leïla in Bizet’s {…}

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Mariusz Kwiecień Withdraws From Final Performances of Met Opera’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

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(Credit: Yan Bleney) Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis will replace Polish singer Mariusz Kwiecień for the final three performances of Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Metropolitan Opera House, according to the official statement on the company’s website. Kwiecień has withdrawn from the production due to illness. Dupuis will perform the role of Count Almaviva on {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Preview: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ Gets Star Casting For Winter Runs

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The Metropolitan Opera will revive Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” this Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. The famed worked has appeared at the Met 494 times to date with the first performance coming in 1894. This season’s revival will feature 15 total performances divided up between two conductors. Antonello Manacorda, in his company debut, will get the first slew of shows {…}

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Étienne Dupuis To ‘Replace’ Mariusz Kwiecień in Met Opera ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced that Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis will replace polish singer Mariusz Kwiecień in this season’s performances of “Le Nozze di Figaro.” Dupuis made his Met debut in 2018 as Marcello in “La Bohème,” and is set to perform as Albert in “Werther” this February at the Met. The Montreal native will be performing the role of {…}

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Marina Rebeka & Jakub Józef Orliński Headline New CD/DVD Releases – Oct. 28

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This week, three full recordings of popular operas will be released as well as a debut album by one of the most sought-out countertenors in the world. Winterreise Berlin Classics releases Schubert’s song cycle with Xavier Sabata and pianist Francisco Poyato. The debut album for Sabata, who is known for his work in Baroque repertory, makes a unique left turn {…}

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Isabel Leonard, Gianandrea Noseda & Kate Lindsey Highlight National Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 Season

Rolando Villazón, René Pape, Anja Harteros Highlight Semperoper Dresden’s 2020-21 Season

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Renée Fleming & Christine Goerke Lead San Francisco Symphony’s 2020-21 Season

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: Le Nozze di Figaro

Amanda Woodbury Replaces Anita Hartig at Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

Mariusz Kwiecień Withdraws From Final Performances of Met Opera’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Preview: ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ Gets Star Casting For Winter Runs

Étienne Dupuis To ‘Replace’ Mariusz Kwiecień in Met Opera ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

Marina Rebeka & Jakub Józef Orliński Headline New CD/DVD Releases – Oct. 28