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Theater an der Wien 2018-19 Season Review: Der Freischütz

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In non-German speaking countries, Carl Maria von Weber’s 1821 opera “Der Freischütz” is a bit of a seltener Vogel. In the past five years, apart from Matthias Hartmann’s memorable production at La Scala in 2017 and Mark Elder’s concert version at the Royal Festival Hall the year before, Anglophone audiences remain largely unexposed to this groundbreaking romantic German opera. The {…}
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Pumeza Matshikiza & Scott Hendricks lead Opera National Du Rhin’s 2019-20 Season

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The Opera National du Rhin has announced its 2019-20 season featuring a number of new productions and world premieres. Giuliano Carella conducts the opening night gala with soloists Olivier Breitman, Ambroisine Bré, Pumeza Matshikiza, and Ezgi Kutlu. Performance Dates: Sept. 25-28, 2019 Philip Venable’s “4.48 Psychosis” gets its first production by Ted Huffman, who directed the work at the Royal Opera {…}
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Opera De Toulon Unveils 2019-20 Season

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The Opera de Toulon has announced its 2019-20 Season featuring up and coming signers and two musicals. Gustavo Porta, Devid Cecconi, and Cellia Costea lead a revival of Giordano’s “Andrea Chenier” with Jurjen Hempel conducting. Performance Dates: Oct. 11-15, 2019  Dalia Constantin, Jasmine Roy, Charlotte Ruby, Alyssa Landry, Scott Emerson, Grégory Garell, Jérôme Pradon, Sinan Bertrand, and Bastien Jacquemart star in Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” Performance Dates: Nov.9 & {…}
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Marlis Petersen, Elina Garanca & Diana Damrau Headline Berlin Philharmonic’s 2019-20 Season

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The Berlin Philharmonic has announced its 2019-2020 season featuring numerous guests including Marlis Petersen as the Artist in Residence. Here is a look at the starry Lineup. The season opens with Kirill Petrenko conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Marlis Petersen, Elisabeth Kulman, and Benjamin Bruns. The concert will also include Alban Berg’s “Lulu Suite.” Performance Dates: August 23-31, 2019 John {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Dieter Kaegi On The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival’s Emergence & Direction

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During early June, tucked away in the Blackwater Valley in Ireland’s southeast, the small town of Lismore plays host to Ireland’s other opera festival. Not nearly as famous as the Wexford Festival, the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival has been slowly developing its profile, and attracting the attention of a wider public, although it still remains relatively unknown outside Ireland. This {…}
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Opera Atelier Announces 2019-20 Season

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Opera Atelier has announced its 2019-20 season, which is entitled “A Season of Saints / A Season of Sinners.” The company will kick off the year with a production of “Don Giovanni.” The Mozart work will star Douglas Williams, Carla Huhtanen, Colin Ainsworth, Meghan Lindsay, Stephen Hegedus, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Asselin, and Gustav Andreassen. “Our audience has made it clear {…}
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Opera Atelier Announces New Partnership

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Opera Atelier has announced its new media relations team. The company will be working with Murray Paterson Marketing Group, which will represent Opera Atelier for its Royal Chapel Concert, its forthcoming production of “Idomeneo,” and the announcement of its 2019-20 season. “We have followed the work of MPMG – an agency dedicated exclusively to servicing arts and culture organizations – for a {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2018-19 Review: La Finta Giardiniera

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In 1790 the Burgtheater in Vienna premiered “Così Fan Tutte,” Mozart’s well-known and regularly performed masterpiece about the fickleness of the human heart. Yet, 15 years earlier, aged only 18, Mozart wrote “La Finta Giardiniera,” another opera buffa which also tackled the theme of love, albeit from a different angle, focusing this time on the madness which love’s unrestrained passions {…}
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Insula Orchestra Paris 2017-18 Review: Thamos, König in Ägypten

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Early Music ensembles have a remarkable ability to think up the most exotic names for themselves. Il giardino armonico, Il pomo d’oro, Les Arts Florissants or Marinka Brecelj’s Fiori Musicali all have a horticultural perfume about them. Others reek of “après moi le deluge” regal panoply with the King’s Consort or La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy taking {…}

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