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Piotr Beczała Cancels Performances in Arena di Verona & Bayreuth Festival

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Piotr Beczała has canceled two of his upcoming performances. The tenor took to social media and said, “Unfortunately, I’ve been hit by a summer flu since yesterday, and I’ve been struggling with it. It’s forcing me to cancel the final performance of ‘Lohengrin’ in Bayreuth tomorrow as well as ‘Carmen’ in Verona. I will now take the time to fully {…}
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Bayreuth Festival 2025 Review: Parsifal

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(© Enrico Nawrath) First seen on the Green Hill in 2023, the director of “Parsifal,” 55-year-old Jay Scheib, professor of music and theatre arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an American of international standing in the hi-tech world, is a technological wizard like no other! A couple of his credits include Thomas Adès’ “Powder Her Face” (New York {…}
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Riccardo Frizza & Pretty Yende to Open Festival Cap Rocat

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On August 1, 2025, conductor Riccardo Frizza will inaugurate the fifth edition of the Festival Cap Rocat in a gala concert with Pretty Yende. The concert, which will be held at the former fortress in Mallorca, will showcase Frizza conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands. In a statement, Frizza said, “In just a few years, the festival has {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Soprano Ana María Martínez on Performing at Ravinia Festival & the Importance of Masterclasses

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On July 30, 2025, soprano Ana María Martínez returns to Ravinia for a special program with pianist Kevin Murphy. The performance marks the soprano’s third appearance with the festival following two notable showcases, both headed by conductor James Conlon. In 2007, the soprano was featured in a gala alongside famed tenor Plácido Doming and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Three years {…}
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Buxton International Festival 2025 Review: Opera Shorts

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(Photo: Genevieve Girling) Buxton International Festival’s staging of four new one-act operas as one of its headline events, under the title “Opera Shorts,” was certainly a welcome, if a somewhat risky decision; contemporary opera can be difficult to sell, and artistic success is far from assured. However, for those who were willing to give it a chance, few can have {…}
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CD Review: Innsbruck Early Music Festival’s ‘Il trionfo della Fama’

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As usual, the 2024 Innsbruck Early Music Festival brought a rare work to the stage: Francesco Bartolomeo Conti’s “Il trionfo della Fama,” a one-act serenata composed in 1723 for the coronation of Emperor Charles VI and Empress Elisabeth Christine in Prague. Conceived as court propaganda, the serenata was commissioned to glorify imperial virtues and Habsburgs’ claims to the divine favor {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Tenor Paul Appleby on Contemporary Operas & Run AMOC* Festival, Politics in the Arts, & His 2025-26 Slate

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(Photo Credit : Jonathan-Tichler) “La Damnation de Faust.” “La Rondine.” “Die Schöpfung.” “In a Grove.” “St. Matthew Passion.” “Antony and Cleopatra.” These are just a few of the many projects that tenor Paul Appleby took on this past season. What stands out in this list is how wide-ranging it is in its artistic exploration. There are several contemporary works, sacred {…}
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Sofia Opera & Ballet 2025 Review: Der Ring des Nibelungen

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(Photo: Sofia Opera & Ballet) Director Plamen Kartaloff’s newest production of “Der Ring des Nibelungen” holds a very special place in the opera world. Sofia Opera and Ballet premiered this production in 2023 and OperaWire reviewed its arrival and aesthetic developments in full, detailing how “in a country with a population of less than seven million people, the cycle was {…}
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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2025: Le Nozze di Figaro

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(© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photography by Richard Hubert Smith) By the time the current run of “Le nozze di Figaro” is concluded, Glyndebourne will have hosted its 600th performance of Mozart and Da Ponte’s perennial masterpiece. The opera launched the  country house enterprise in 1934 at the behest of Fritz Busch and Rudolf Bing, who wisely cautioned against Christie’s Wagner-shaped {…}

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