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Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: The Queen of Spades

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(This review was written in collaboration with Francisco Salazar) The road to the Met Opera’s second performance of “The Queen of Spades” on Wednesday, May 28, was almost as dramatic as the opera itself. The role of Hermann is a monster. One of the most difficult in the repertoire, not only does it challenge the tenor taking it on with {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2023-24 Review: Das Rheingold

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(Credits: Brescia e Amisano) This may be a Ring Cycle that will not make history, and Wagner’s monumental cycle has only just begun. As proposed by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Prologue evening of “Das  Rheingold” displayed an almost complete lack of interesting, cohesive ideas concerning staging; somewhat complacent conducting; and shaky casting. This should serve as a warning of the {…}
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Teatro Real 2024-25 Review: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert

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Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczala presented their recital on November 3rd (which is touring worldwide) at the Teatro Real. Before the beginning, there was a one-minute standing of silence in sympathy to the victims in the aftermath of the storm Dana which destroyed several locations in the Valencia area (in the name of all the artistic and technical {…}
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Ermonela Jaho, Freddie de Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2024-25 Season

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Staatsoper Hamburg has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres First up is Carl Orff’s “Trionfi.” Calixto Bieito directs a cast starring Nicole Chevalier, Florian Panzieri, Sandra Hamaoui, and Oleksiy Palchykov, among others. Kent Nagano conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 21 – Oct. 12, 2024 “Der Freischütz” stars Andrzej Dobber, Hubert Kowalczyk, Julia Kleiter, Alina Wunderlin, and Johan Reuter. Yoel Gamzou conducts and Andreas {…}
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Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: Tannhäuser

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(Credit; Evan Zimmerman) “No Opera on a Dead Planet.” In the middle of Act two of the opening night of “Tannhäuser” as Wolfram delivered his “Blick ich umher in diesem edlen Kreise,” specifically as he sang that “love is a spring to be drunk from,” an audience member started shouting from the rafters of the Met Opera auditorium. The first {…}
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Northern Ireland Opera 2023-24 Review: Sea Wrack

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(Photo: Neil Harrison Photography) Northern Ireland Opera is not flush with money. Fortunately, however, it has an imaginative artistic director in Cameron Menzies, whose innovative approach ensures that the company is able to provide a wide range of productions over the season, which it tours to locations across the province. Unable to afford more than a single fully staged opera {…}
DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Musica Solis’ ‘Turning into Song’

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No doubt Musica Solis’ newest release is a labor of love initiated in 2010 by writer and musical scholar Lucy Miller Murray whose well curated selection of 15 of her own poems lies at the very heart of “Turning into Song.” Thematically, they are inspired by the likes of Paul Verlaine and French writers from the Symbolist orbit. Miller Murray {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Francesco Meli, Elīna Garanča & Laura Strickling Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to listen to a tribute album to one of the greatest sopranos in history, two new DVDs and a soundtrack to one of this year’s most acclaimed films. The Distances Between SOMM Recordings releases “The Distances Between,” the second volume of songs – including 17 first recordings – by Stephen Dodgson marking the {…}
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The Whitney Biennial 2022 Review: Raven Chacon’s ‘For Zitkála-Šá’

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Raven Chacon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, composed a series of 13 scores as portraits dedicated to different contemporary American Indian, First Nations, or Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, or sound art. Currently on view in the 2022 Whitney Biennial, this work creates space for better understanding the Yankton Dakota {…}

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