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Best of 2024: OperaWire’s Top Ten Rising Stars 2024

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(Credit: TACT/Askonas Holt/Intermusica/Natalia Jansen) It’s that time of the year. The end of the year. 2024 brought many debuts, many new productions, many competitions, many world premieres and many new young artists who are coming up in the world of opera.  And that it is reason alone to celebrate. As the year comes to an end, here’s a look at {…}

News

Giulio Gari Foundation Announces 2024 Winners Gala

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The Giulio Gari Foundation has announced its 2024 Winners Gala. Scheduled for Oct. 20, 2024, at the Blessed Sacrament Church in New York City, the event will feature Jonathan Kelly, the Met Opera Assistant Conductor, at the piano alongside five artists. Performers include winners baritone Trevor Haumshilt-Rocha, soprano Magdalena Kuzma, mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beatag, baritone Blake Denson, and soprano Mei Giu {…}

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Jongwon Han Joins Opus 3 Artists for General Management

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Bass-Baritone Jongwon Han has joined the roster of Opus 3 Artists for general management. Currently an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera, Han made his debut there in the summer of 2023 as The Bonze in “Madama Butterfly and has since appeared as Colline in “Bohème Out of the Box,” the third and fourth Noble in “Lohengrin,” Sprecher in {…}

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Mezzo-Soprano Anita Monserrat Joins Askonas Holt

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Anita Monserrat has joined Askonas Holt for Worldwide Management. Monserrat will be managed at Askonas Holt by Fabiana Dalpiaz and Kate Robson. The British mezzo-soprano is a First Prize winner at the 2024 SWR Junge Opernstars Competition, as well as a semi-finalist at the 2023 Operalia Competition, and a finalist at both the 2023 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the 2022 {…}

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Eliza Boom Wins 2024 Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award

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(Photo credit: Zohar Izenberg) Soprano Eliza Boom has won the $40,000 2024 Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award in Sydney. Boom competed with arias from “Capriccio,” “Thais,” “Madama Butterfly,” and “Cosi fan Tutte.” The five judges on the panel gave a unanimous first-place vote for Bloom. The competition featured 32 singers. Coming in second place, with the Richard {…}

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Maire Therese Carmack Joins Askonas Holt for General Management

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(Credit: Dario Acosta) Maire Therese Carmack has joined the roster of Askonas Holt for worldwide general management. She will be managed at Askonas Holt by Nicholas Moloney. This season, the American mezzo-soprano is set to debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in “Rigoletto,” the Houston Grand Opera debut in Missy Mazzoli’s “Breaking the Waves” and returns to the Metropolitan {…}

Interviews

Q & A: Soprano Aida Garifullina on Her Role in ‘La Traviata’ & How to Connect With Opera in Deeper Ways

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(Photograph by Camilla Greenwell) Russian-Tatar star soprano Aida Garifullina is considered one of the best singers of her generation and is an internationally celebrated artist. She is a regular guest artist of the world’s leading opera houses and concert venues, including the Royal Opera House, La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Paris National Opera, Arena di Verona, and Salzburg Festival. Garifullina {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2024 Review: Samson

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(Photo credit: Monika Rittershaus) “So, who is signing the work?” an operagoer asks Raphaël Pichon and Claus Guth at a lunchtime panel about their opera-project “Samson.” The music is Rameau’s, but it is not that simple. According to Guth (and his Wikipedia search), Rameau did indeed compose a “Samson” with a libretto by Voltaire; however, it is all lost. Pichon {…}