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Rai 5 to Present ‘Suor Angelica’ & ‘Il Prigionero’ From Rome Featuring Corinne Winters & Mattia Olivieri

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Rai 5 is set to broadcast the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma’s Production of Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero.” The broadcast will be held on June 12 at 9:15 local Italian time. The production, which opened in April 2025, was conducted by Michele Mariotti and directed by Calixto Bieito. Corinne Winters and Marie-Nicole Lemieux led Puccini’s opera, while Mattia {…}
News, Season Announcement

Karen Chia-ling Ho, Olga Kulchynska, Mattia Olivieri, Lucia Lucas & Iestyn Davies Lead Santa Fe Opera’s 2026 Season

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The Santa Fe Opera has announced its 2026 season. Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will open the season with a revival production directed by Melanie Bacaling. The cast will include Karen Chia-ling Ho, Stephen Costello, Jonathan Burton, Jarrett Ott, and Sun-Ly Pierce. John Fiore conducts. Performance Dates: July 3-29, 2026 Harry Bicket conducts Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” in a production by Christopher Luscombe. Josh Lovell, Joélle Harvey, Rainelle {…}
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Rebeka Lokar, Roberta Mantegna & Mattia Olivieri Highlight Macerata Opera Festival 2020 Slate

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The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2020 program. This season the festival will showcase three popular operas with renown casts starting on July 17 through August 9, 2020. The festival opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Valentina Carrasco. The production will star Rebeka Lokar in the title role, Piero Pretti as Cavaradossi, and Roberto {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Juan Diego Flórez, Maria Bengtsson, Dave Monaco, Ludovic Tézier & Marina Rebeka Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for the first edition of 2026’s CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. The year kicks off with star-studded new releases including a new Verdi recording and an Offenbach opera that features some of today’s greatest performers. Luigi Gordigiani: Romantic Florence – Songs For Voice And Piano Dynamic releases mezzo-soprano Marina Comparato’s latest album. She is {…}
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Lisette Oropesa, Philippe Jaroussky, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Ce Suarez Paz Lead New CD/DVD Recordings

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. Happy Halloween! It’s a week of solo recitals, including numerous showcases of baroque music and rarely performed works from Armenia and Argentina. There is also a perfect Halloween recording featuring one of the most famous mad scenes in opera. Lucia di Lammermoor Euroarts {…}
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EuroArts to Release Lisette Oropesa’s ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

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EuroArts has announced a recording of “Lucia di Lammermoor’ featuring Lisette Oropesa. The recording features the soprano alongside Stefan Pop as Edgardo, Mattia Olivieri, and Riccardo Zanellato. They are joined by the Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania. Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts. Oropesa has been celebrated for her interpretation of Lucia which {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Review: Soirées musicales / La cambiale di matrimonio

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(Photo: Amati Bacciardi / ROF 2025) Soirées musicales After the triumph of his last opera, “Guillaume Tell,” Gioachino Rossini decided to abandon theatrical composition and retire to his home in Paris to recover from nervous exhaustion. Even so, he never stopped writing music: he composed for himself, for Olympe Pélissier–whom he married in 1846 after the death of Isabella Colbran–and {…}
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Rai3 to Present Teatro La Fenice’s ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ from Piazza San Marco

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Rai3 is set to broadcast Teatro La Fenice’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” from Piazza San Marco on July 16, 2025. The production, which will be semistaged in concert form, will be conducted by Rico Saccani and will feature  Oksana Dyka as Santuzza, Mikheil Sheshaberidze as Turiddu, Franco Vassallo as Alfio, and Valeria Girardello as Lola. Annunziata Vestri rounds out the cast as Lucia. {…}
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Aigul Akhmetshina Cancels All Paris Opera Performances of ‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’ Due to Visa Issues

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Aigul Akhmetshina has canceled her remaining performances of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Paris Opera due to visa issues. The mezzo took to social media and said, “I’m sad to announce that my visa situation is still not resolved. Because of this, I’ve missed rehearsal and the first performance, and unfortunately, I will also miss the second show. Together {…}

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