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Q & A: Carrie-Ann Matheson on Leading San Francisco Merola Young Singers & Adler Fellows Opera Programs

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(Photo Credit: Olivia Kahler) What does it take to turn a gifted young musician into a first-rate opera singer? Not just a talented performer, but one who knows her craft and can sustain the life that comes with it? To find out, I spoke with Carrie-Ann Matheson, Artistic Director of the San Francisco Opera Center, a performing pianist, leadership coach, {…}
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The Conductor-Singer Relationship, Centered on Speranza Scappucci and Her Masterclass at the Royal Opera House

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The relationship between a conductor and a singer is one of the least examined and most consequential elements of operatic performance. Audiences follow the voice. Critics assess the voice. The conductor, who shapes the tempo the voice breathes within, the space it is given, the dynamic world it moves through, tends to appear in reviews as a presence behind the {…}
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Finnish National Opera Officially Appoints Dima Slobodeniouk as Principal Conductor

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The Board of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet Foundation has officially appointed Dima Slobodeniouk as its new Principal Conductor. Slobodeniouk will take up the post in August 2026. The decision was made at a board meeting on June 10 and Slobodeniouk’s tenure will run through July 31, 2030. In a statement, Kim Ignatius, Chair of the Board said, “I am very {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

ABAO Bilbao Opera 2025-26 Review: Andrea Chénier

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The company ABAO-Bilbao Opera closed its 2025-26 season with Giordano’s masterpiece “Andrea Chénier.” A luxury cast was led by opera star Michael Fabiano, alongside the rising Spanish soprano Saioa Hernández and the extraordinary baritone Juan Jesús Rodríguez. A co-production between ABAO and the Festival de Peralada, it presented beautiful and meaningful sets and costumes designed by Ricardo Sánchez Cuerda and {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2026: Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria

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(Photo: © SF/Marco Borrelli) A Marionette Theatre for Monteverdi The Salzburg Whitsun Festival presents a production of Claudio Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse” in patria by Franco Citterio and Giovanni Schiavolin as a marionette performance, in collaboration with Italy’s most renowned puppet company, the Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla & Figli of Milan. A small puppet theatre is constructed on the stage {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Klangvokal Music Festival Dortmund 2026 Review: Les Boréades

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(Photo: Oliver Hitzegrad) A volatile world of sonic storms, earthquakes, and lightning flashes (forces of nature tightly bound to dangerous political subversion) was completely locked away when Jean-Philippe Rameau’s last opera, “Les Boréades,” was abruptly shelved in 1763. Paranoid of the libretto’s Masonic undercurrents, French royal censorship chose to suppress an extraordinary amount of musical energy. The score’s modern resurrection {…}
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Finnish National Opera and Ballet Proposes New Principal Conductor, Extends Artistic Director

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The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has proposed Dima Slobodeniouk as its new Principal Conductor, with a four-year tenure set to run from August 1, 2026 to July 31, 2030 The appointment is now contingent on a final board decision on June 10, 2026. ”Dima’s conducting at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet demonstrated exceptional musical vision, clarity, and effectiveness. {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Göttingen International Handel Festival 2026 Review: Deidamia

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(Photo: Alciro Theodoro da Silva) As the final opera of George Frideric Händel, “Deidamia” (1741) has long occupied a minor space in the composer’s canon. Often viewed as a weary departure from the high-octane heroism of his Royal Academy years—a view infamously codified by Winton Dean’s somewhat dismissive assessment of Händel’s operatic swan song—the work, as the core production of {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Baritone Roderick Williams On His Forthcoming Recital At The Music At Paxton Festival & Woking With The Innovative Composer Michel van der Aa

https://operawire.com/q-a-baritone-roderick-williams-on-his-forthcoming-recital-at-the-paxton-festival-woking-with-the-innovative-composer-michel-van-der-aa/

(Photo: Theo Williams) In July, Paxton House will host the 2026 edition of its festival dedicated to chamber music in all its forms, including solo recitals and small ensembles of instrumental and vocal music from the classical repertoire spanning across the centuries. Yet it is far more than a specialist classical music festival; there are also many cross-over events, including {…}

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