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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Bravo! Vail Music Festival Artistic Director to Step Down

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Bravo! Vail Music Festival has announced that Anne-Marie McDermott will step down from her tenure as the Festival’s Artistic Director at the end of the 2026 season. McDermott is a celebrated concert pianist and artistic director and has held the role since 2011. The Festival has grown in both scope and impact as an internationally recognized destination for classical music {…}

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Teatro Grattacielo Announces 2024 Season

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Teatro Grattacielo has unveiled its 30th anniversary season. “L’Elisir d’Amore” will be part of the “Young Artists Series.” The opera stars Pedro Barrera, Victoria McGrath, Megan Dobbs, Tiernan Chase, Maia Gonzalez, Yoonji Kim, Henry Hyunsoon Kim, Bryan McClary, Logan Dooley, Natasha Scheuble, Nicole Silva, Valia Karagiorga, Elizabeth Barsalou, and Taylor Consiglio. Jason Tramm conducts and Stefanos Koroneos directs. Performance Date: June {…}

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Phoenix Symphony Announces New Senior Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer

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Phoenix Symphony has announced the appointment of Tammy Rocker to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer. Rocker previously worked as the Symphony’s Chief Development Officer and was also the Division Vice President for the Southwest region at the American Lung Association. She also worked for the American Heart Association for over a decade. “This is an {…}

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Eilin O’Dea Stars in Fusion Theatre’s ‘Medea’

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Soprano and director Eilin O’Dea takes on the title role in Fusion Theatre’s upcoming production of Cherubini’s “Medea.” The cast includes Alessandro Caronna, Kat Collins, Kara Gordon, Kenny Harmon, Rina Haruki, Nicole LeBlanc, Maureen O’Boyle, Alexa Rabago, Patricio Rabago, and Ruth Rooney. Additional casting will be announced at a later date. Areti Giovanou serves as the music director. Fusion Co-Founder {…}

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Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

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Photo: Maria Baranova Prototype Festival presented “Adoration” at New York City’s The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture on January 12th, 2024. It was an innovative opera, featuring both voices, an amplified string quartet, and technical sound engineering, composed by Mary Kouyoumdjian with a libretto by Royce Vavrek. This world premiere, shockingly timely, challenged audience members to examine bias while {…}

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Romanian National Opera Iasi to Present ‘Merry Widow 2.0’

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The Romanian National Opera, Iaşi will present “Merry Widow 2.0.” The opera will star tenor Ștefan von Korch as Camille de Jolidon; he was first cast in the reimagined role of Camille de Rosillion in 2016 with the company. He is joined by Ana Cernicova, Cosmin Marcovici, Andrei Yvan, Nicoleta Maier, Andrei Lazar, Angelica Solomon, Ștefan Linu, Alexandru Savin, Tatiana Purcaru, {…}

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Opera Saratoga Unveils 2024 Summer Season

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Opera Saratoga has announced its summer 2024 season, the first curated by new General and Artistic Director Mary Birnbaum. “This season pays homage to Saratoga Springs’ history as a pleasure-seeker’s paradise, racing, and betting destination while looking to the future by pushing the definition of what opera can be – and how it can be made – forward,” said Birnbaum {…}

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Trekking Through American Opera (Part One)

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(Photo Credit: Scott Suchman) Throughout this new series, we will be looking at the history of American opera beginning in the 2000s to the present through a revisit of certain iconic works of the decade and OperaWire’s coverage of them throughout the 21st century. In this first part, we will look at the development of American opera during the 2000s, {…}

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Ermonela Jaho, Freddie de Tommaso, Elsa Dreisig, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Tomasz Konieczny Headline Staatsoper Hamburg’s 2024-25 Season

Bravo! Vail Music Festival Artistic Director to Step Down

Teatro Grattacielo Announces 2024 Season

Phoenix Symphony Announces New Senior Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer

Eilin O’Dea Stars in Fusion Theatre’s ‘Medea’

Prototype Festival 2024 Review: Adoration

Romanian National Opera Iasi to Present ‘Merry Widow 2.0’

Opera Saratoga Unveils 2024 Summer Season

Trekking Through American Opera (Part One)