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Review: Queen Sonja Singing Competition 2025

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(Photo: John-Halvdan Olsen-Halvorsen) There is always a buzz about a competition. It’s almost palpable. Especially one as prestigious as this year’s Queen Sonja Singing Competition, it being the 30th anniversary edition. As the audience streamed into the venerable Oslo Konserthus, the talk turned to the six singers that made it to the final concert. Every single one of these singers {…}

Business, News

Rozemarijn Tiben Launches New Tiben Artist Agency

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Artist manager Rozemarijn Tiben has launched Tiben Artists, a new independent agency in Paris dedicated to representing exceptional singers, conductors, and period ensembles. The agency will open with a roster of 15 internationally recognized artists whose careers Tiben has championed for years. Among artists that the agency will represent are the period ensemble Gli Angeli Genève, Norwegian mezzo-soprano Astrid Nordstad, and Spanish tenor Pablo {…}

Business, News

Leslie Suganandarajah Joins Arabella Arts for Management

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Leslie Suganandarajah has joined Arabella Arts for General Management. Suganandarajah has been the Music Director of the Salzburg Landestheater since 2019 and is set to conduct new productions of “Der Fliegende Holländer,” “Eugene Onegin,” and V. & K. Bhatti’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.  there this season. Next season, he is also set to conduct at the Volskoper Wien and with the BBC Philharmonic. {…}

News, Season Announcement

Marie Lys, Francesca Aspromonte, Key’mon Murrah, & Jeremy Ovenden Star in Les Talens Lyriques’ 2025-26 Season

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Les Talens Lyriques releases its 2025-26 season. Lully’s “Proserpine” opens the 2025 season. Marie Lys, Véronique Gens, Olivier Gourdy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Ambroisine Bré, Laurent Kilsby, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Nick Pritchard, Olivier Cesarini, and David Witczak make up the cast. They are joined by Chœur de Chambre de Namur led by Thibaut Lenaerts, and Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christophe {…}

Business, News

Caroline Wettergreen Joins Intermusica for General Management

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(Credit: Bilder Gerard Collett) Norwegian soprano Caroline Wettergreen has joined the Vocal & Opera roster for worldwide general management of Intermusica. Wettergreen will be managed by Natasha Worsley and Isabelle Morgan. Wettergreen is an international artist who has performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, Norwegian Opera, Opéra de Paris, Royal Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, and {…}

News

Louise Alder, Gerald Finley, Carolina López Moreno, Erin Morley, Golda Schultz & Aigul Akhmetshina Lead BBC Proms’ 2025 Season

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The BBC Proms has announced its 2025 season. Here is a list of the vocal performances. Sakari Oramo conducts the First Night of the Proms with soloists Lisa Batiashvili, Caspar Singh, and Gerald Finley. The program includes music by Arthur Bliss, Felix Mendelssohn, Jean Sibelius, Errollyn Wallen, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performance Date: July 18, 2025 Tenor Allan Clayton gives {…}

News

Semperoper Dresden Announces Conductor Change for ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’

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The Semperoper Dresden has announced a conductor change for its upcoming production of “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The company revealed that Giulio Cilona will take over for Riccardo Minasi, leading a run that stars Christoph Pohl, Julia Kleiter, Anna El-Khashem, Michael Nagl, and Cecilia Mayer. Cilona, the winner of the 2024 Ernst-von-Schuch Conducting Prize, Kapellmeister at Deutsche Oper Berlin, and {…}

News

Asmik Grigorian Replaces Lise Davidsen in Gran Teatre del Liceu Gala

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The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced a cast change for its July 2 gala with Matthias Goerne. The company said that soprano Asmik Grigorian will headline the concert alongside Goerne, replacing Lise Davidsen, who announced on Friday that she was expecting twins and would be withdrawing from projects until 2026. The company said that the Norwegian soprano had to {…}

News

Lise Davidsen to Feature in New Recording of ‘The Flying Dutchman’

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(Credit: Courtesy of MWA Management) Lise Davidsen is set to headline a new release of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” for Decca Classics. The recording was made during concert performances with the Oslo Opera on August 22 and 24, 2024. The new release will feature Davidsen alongside Gerald Finley and Stanislas de Barbeyrac. Edward Gardner, the Oslo Opera House’s new music {…}