Medici.TV to Showcase Operalia Competition & Major Opera Production from Aix-En-Provence

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Medici.TV is ready to give opera fans a healthy offering of their preferred art form this summer. The streaming service, which lists performances for free replays for the first 90 days after a live broadcast will showcase major opera performances from some of the biggest venues this summer. It all kicks off Thursday, July 6, 2017, with a showing of {…}

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Operalia Headed Back to Asia in 2018

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Plácido Domingo’s famed Operalia Competition will head to South Korea next summer, according to The Opera Critic. This is the third time that the competition is coming to the Asian continent in the competition’s history. The first time that Operalia was held in Asia was in 1997 when it headed to Toyko. That year’s winner was Chang Yong Liao of {…}

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Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition Returns to Eastern Europe in July 2017

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Kazakhstan will play host to the 25th Operalia Competition in July 2017. The famed competition will be making its return to Eastern Europe after making an appearance there in 2011 at Moscow. It also took place in Pécs and Budapest in 2009. Otherwise the competition has mainly done rounds in Western Europe, North America and Asia (Tokyo and Beijing). Last {…}

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Cast Change: Kathleen O’Mara to Perform in San Francisco Opera’s ‘Strauss in Concert’

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(Photo credit: Dario Acosta) Due to illness, Adela Zaharia no longer perform in San Francisco Opera’s ‘Strauss in Concert’ on Nov. 6. Zaharia will be replaced by Kathleen O’Mara as the soprano soloist. O’Mara will perform Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” in place of the previously scheduled “Brentano Lieder.” This one-night-only event also includes the U.S. premiere of a new suite of {…}

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The Mozartists Announce Five New Associate Artists

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The Mozartists have announced five new Associate Artists. The artists include soprano Bella Marslen, mezzo-soprano Ellen Pearson, countertenor Zheng Jiang, baritone Sam Hird and pianist Yihan Zhao. Marslen, Pearson and Hird will make their full company debuts in “The Truth About Love” at Cadogan Hall on Jan. 27, 2027, joining current Associate Artists Ava Dodd and Hugo Brady. Presented in {…}

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Q & A: Adriana González on Her Royal Opera Debut, Expanding Her Repertoire & Being a Young Artist

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(Credit: Marine Cessat-Begler) Since winning Operalia in 2019, Adriana González’s career has steadily risen to the top, singing at many of the great theaters around the world and creating memorable interpretations. She has become renowned for her interpretations of Micaëla in “Carmen” and the Countess in “Le Nozze di Figaro” as well as Mimì in “La Bohème.” Last season she {…}

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Aviva Fortunata Joins TACT Artists Management

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(Credit: © Sam Gaetz) Canadian-Italian soprano Aviva Fortunata has joined the roster of TACT management. The soprano will be represented by Rebecca Townsend. Fortunata is a former member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble and alumna of the Merola Opera Program and the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio. She has also represented Canada at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the {…}

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Q & A: Baritone César San Martín on the Emotional Power of Zarzuela, Returning to ‘La Verbena de la Paloma’ & the Global Nostalgia for Our Roots

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As the 2026-27 season opens at Madrid’s Teatro de la Zarzuela, baritone César San Martín returns to one of the works most deeply connected to the city’s musical identity: Tomás Bretón’s “La Verbena de la Paloma.” San Martín appears as Julián in Nuria Castejón’s production, which returns to the stage following its 2024 presentation and forms part of a season {…}

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Marianna Hovanisyan Joins Intermusica for Worldwide General Management

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Armenian soprano Marianna Hovanisyan has joined the Vocal & Opera roster of Intermusica for worldwide general management. Hovanisyan is an alumna of Jette Parker Artists’ Programme at the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden and this season, she returns to the Royal Ballet & Opera as Pamina in Sir David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte,” and is a Blümenmädchen {…}

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Medici.TV to Showcase Operalia Competition & Major Opera Production from Aix-En-Provence

Operalia Headed Back to Asia in 2018

Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition Returns to Eastern Europe in July 2017

Cast Change: Kathleen O’Mara to Perform in San Francisco Opera’s ‘Strauss in Concert’

The Mozartists Announce Five New Associate Artists

Q & A: Adriana González on Her Royal Opera Debut, Expanding Her Repertoire & Being a Young Artist

Aviva Fortunata Joins TACT Artists Management

Q & A: Baritone César San Martín on the Emotional Power of Zarzuela, Returning to ‘La Verbena de la Paloma’ & the Global Nostalgia for Our Roots

Marianna Hovanisyan Joins Intermusica for Worldwide General Management