Vanessa Goikoetxea, Piero Pretti, Sabine Devieilhe, Michael Spyres & Ian Bostridge Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get to experience many of the famed artists of our time in new albums featuring classic works, rarely performed works and rediscovered works. Here is a look at this week’s new releases. Stravinsky: Le rossignol Captured in March 2023, {…}

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University of Oklahoma to Showcase ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’

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The University of Oklahoma will present the only U.S. staging this season of “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.” The production is set to go up from March 6 – 9, 2025 at the Reynolds Performing Arts Center on the OU-Norman Campus. It will feature over 100 OU students, including 31 cast members, 40 orchestra musicians, and {…}

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Christine Goerke to Give Public Masterclass at Florida Grand Opera

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Christine Goerke is set to present an exclusive public masterclass on Feb. 23, 2025, at the Florida Grand Opera. The event, which kicks off at 2 p.m. at the FIU Herbert and Nicole Wertheim School of Music & Performing Arts Concert Hall, will feature performances from Florida Grand Opera Studio artists, including Mary Burke Barber (Mezzo-Soprano), Sydney Dardis (Soprano), Monique {…}

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Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) Mark-Anthony Turnage is among the front rank of living British opera composers. With “Festen”, which opened at The Royal Opera last week, he now has five to his name, with a sixth to follow at Glyndebourne this autumn in the form of “The Railway Children” – a less harrowing subject than this adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s 1995 {…}

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Opera Lafayette & OperaCreole 2025 Review: Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan

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(Photo Credit: Jennifer Packard Photos, Courtesy of Opera Lafayette) “Defying harsh laws, braving even death, I was able to change my fate,” the titular Morgiane sings proudly in Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan.” The same could be said of the composer. Born free in New Orleans in 1827, Dédé defied expectations of what a Black man in the {…}

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Opéra National de Paris 2024-25 Review: Das Rheingold

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(Photo: Herwig Prammer / OnP) A very promising night indeed: Paris Opera takes its first step toward its new Ring under the direction of Calixto Bieito—one of the most exciting artists in his field—and with a promising cast. The stakes are particularly high for the company president, Alexander Neef, who would crowd his tenure with a Wagner Ring in continental {…}

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National Symphony Orchestra Announces ‘In Your Neighborhood’ Concerts

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The National Symphony Orchestra’s longest-running community engagement initiative, “In Your Neighborhood” will bring NSO musicians to Takoma Park, Sixteenth Street, Shepherd Park, Petworth, Brightwood, and Crestwood. The initiative will be held between Feb. 13 and 19, 2025, and gives access to free, live music beyond the Kennedy Center. On Feb. 13, Principal Pops Conductor Steven Reineke will conduct the National {…}

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Musica Viva NY to Present ‘Curse Upon Iron’

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Musica Viva NY is set to present “Curse Upon Iron,” a one-night-only concert at Manhattan’s All Souls NYC. The evening will be held on March 2, 2025 and will feature choral music from the Baltic States. Led by Musica Viva NY’s Artistic Director/Conductor Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, the Musica Viva NY choir, accompanied by piano and organ, will honor the heritage of {…}

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Regina Opera Announces Winter Gala Concert

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Regina Opera has announced the Winter Gala Concert. The event will be held on Feb. 2, 2025, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Academy in Brooklyn New York and will showcase opera and instrumental pieces by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bach, and Tchaikovsky. Featured soloists will include sopranos Nicole Magallón, Alexis Cregger Olinyk, and Kristina Terwilliger, tenor José Heredia, and baritone Eliam {…}

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Vanessa Goikoetxea, Piero Pretti, Sabine Devieilhe, Michael Spyres & Ian Bostridge Lead New CD/DVD Releases

University of Oklahoma to Showcase ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’

Christine Goerke to Give Public Masterclass at Florida Grand Opera

Royal Ballet and Opera 2024-25 Review: Festen

Opera Lafayette & OperaCreole 2025 Review: Morgiane, ou Le Sultan d’Ispahan

Opéra National de Paris 2024-25 Review: Das Rheingold

National Symphony Orchestra Announces ‘In Your Neighborhood’ Concerts

Musica Viva NY to Present ‘Curse Upon Iron’

Regina Opera Announces Winter Gala Concert