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Central City Opera 2024 Review: La Fanciulla del West

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(Photo credit: Amanda Tipton) Central City Opera (CCO) resurges in 2023-24, the institution entering the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, installing Alison Moritz as Artistic Director and bouncing back from a turbulent 2023 marked by labor strife, now buoyed by the new leadership of CEO Scott Finlay. With a reinforced endowment, CCO’s ambitious 2024 summer festival season programmed Gilbert and {…}
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Tête à Tête Announces ‘The Opera Festival’ 2024 Lineup

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The lineup for Tête à Tête’s ‘The Opera Festival’ 2024 has been announced. Only opera performances are included in this article. The festival opens with This performance of William Gardner’s and Matthew Green’s second opera “The Prisoner.” The cast features Emma Warner, Abbie Ward, William Gardner, and Michael Temporal-Darrel. Alexander Papp conducts and Eleanor Burke directs. Performance Date: August 24, 2024 {…}
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George and Nora London Foundation for Singers Announces Its 53rd Annual Competition & Recital by Megan Moore

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The 2024-25 season of the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers will present the 53rd edition of the foundation’s annual competition. The final round of the competition, which is open to the public, takes place on Feb. 21, 2025, at the Morgan Library and Museum. Approximately a dozen singers compete for five George London Awards of $12,000 each. Those {…}
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Canadian Opera Company Announces the Return of ‘Musical Flights’

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(Photo credit: Gaetz & IMG Artists) This summer, the Canadian Opera Company will once again present “Musical Flights,” the company’s casual community concert series. Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio will perform a program of operatic showstoppers that preview the COC’s upcoming productions of “Nabucco,” “Faust,” “Madama Butterfly,” and “Eugene Onegin.” A variety of Broadway hits including selections from “Oklahoma!,” {…}
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Jose Cura, Chiara Isotton, Klára Kolonits, Ildikó Komlósi & Yusif Eyvazov Lead Hungarian State Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Hungarian State Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Gergely Vajda conducts John Adams’ “Nixon in China” with Rita Rácz, Klára Kolonits, Zoltán Nyári, and Károly Szemerédy. András Almási-Tóth directs the production. Performance Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2024 Péter Dobszay will conduct Verdi’s Requiem and will feature soloists Andrea Brassói-Jőrös, Andrea Szántó, István Kovácsházi, and Krisztián Cser. András Almási-Tóth {…}
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If Opera Festival Announces 2024 Season

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If Opera Festival has announced its 2024 in Belcombe Court, Bradford on Avon. Thomas Guthrie directs Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” starring Robyn Allegra Parton, Alexey Gusev, Ángel Macías, and William Meinert. Oliver Gooch conducts. Performance Dates: August 23-31, 2024 Thomas Blunt conducts J. Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” with Matthew Siveter, Edward Leach, Felix Kemp, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Anna Fassea, Marie Cayeux, Simon {…}
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Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Benjamin Appl, Sir Bryn Terfel, Roderick Williams, Elena Pankratova Headline Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2024-25 Season

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(Credit: Chris Christodoulou) The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. The season opens with  a concert featuring soprano Sarah Wegener. The program includes Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” and works by Juan Bautista Plaza and Mahler. Domingo Hindoyan conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 17 & 20, 2024 Next up is {…}
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Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, & Attilio Glaser Lead Theater an Der Wien’s 2024-25 Season

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The Theater an der Wien has announced its 2024-25 season. Monteverdi’s “Combattimenti” will star Ferran Albrich, Johanna Rosa Falkinger, Luciana Mancini, Ambra Biaggi, and Ilyà Dovnar. David Bergmüller conducts the production by Olivier Fredj. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Oct. 18, 2024 David Bates conducts Mozart’s “Idomeneo” in a new production by Stefan Herheim. The cast includes Attilio Glaser, Emily Sierra, Jeanine De Bique, Elena Tsallagova, Ya-Chung Huang, and Levente {…}
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Staatsoper Berlin 2023-24 Review: Der Ring des Nibelungen

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The current “Der Ring des Nibelungen” at Staatsoper Berlin came into being in October 2022 directed by Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov and due to be conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Sadly, though, Maestro Barenboim, had to pull out of the production because of severe health issues, a great blow to all, but so disappointing for Barenboim in his 80th year.   {…}

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