IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

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(Credit: Ruth Walz) IN Series has announced that it will honor director Peter Sellars during its 2024 Gala. The famed opera director will receive the first-ever June Jordan Award on May 2. The Award recognizes “living creative voices whose body of work reflects the poetic principles exuding the many writings, workings, wonderings of luminary poet and activist June Jordan.” Sellars {…}

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Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’

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Peter Sellars warned the crowd gathered in the Rubin Museum on a recent Friday night that the film would be long. “It’s only an hour and fifteen minutes,” he said. “But the beginning feels like several lifetimes.” At first, the caution was unnecessary. “this body is so impermanent,” a new film Sellars directed at the height of the pandemic, explores {…}

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Peter Sellars To Give Keynote At Salzburg Festival

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The American director Peter Sellars will deliver the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the 2019 Salzburg Festival on July 27, 2019. Sellars will deliver a speech entitled “Listening to the Ocean: Planetary Change and Cultural Action – The meaning and urgency of ‘ecological civilization’ in the next generation.” In a press release, Festival President Helga Rabl-Stadler noted, “Peter Sellars {…}

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Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced its 2025 nominees. The nominees for Opera Company of the Year are Deutsche Oper Berlin, GöteborgsOperan, Houston Grand Opera, MusikTheater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, and Teatro alla Scala. Meanwhile, in the Female Singer category, Anastasia Bartoli, Elsa Dreisig, Véronique Gens, Asmik Grigorian, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Adela Zaharia are the nominees. In the Male Singer {…}

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Benjamin Bernheim, Asmik Grigorian, Christian Van Horn, Kelley O’Connor, & Megan Kahts Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, audiences get to see a new production of Offenbach’s masterful opera and a new recording of Prokofiev’s rarely performed work. There are also solo album debuts and a new requiem. Requiem of Light Patti Drennan’s newly composed a cappella Requiem Mass {…}

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Cast Change: Fleur Barron Joins Cast of ‘One Morning Turns Into Eternity’

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(Photo by Victoria Cadish) Salzburg Festival has announced a cast change for its production of “One Morning Turns Into An Eternity.” The company revealed that Wiebke Lehmkuhl has withdrawn from her participation in the production due to family reasons. In her place, Fleur Barron will sing the vocal part in Mahler’s “Der Abschied.” Barron is set to appear in the {…}

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Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: The Nine Jewelled Deer

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One of the legacies of Pierre Audi’s tenure as director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival is the festival’s commitment to a continuous challenging of what opera can mean. His provocations extended from calling filmic versions of Stravinsky’s ballets operas, to a rendition of Mahler’s Symphony No.2 directed by Romeo Castellucci, or even, last season, a musical of William Kentridge’s “The Great {…}

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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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Obituary: Legendary Director Pierre Audi Dies at 67

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Famed director Pierre Audi has died at the age of 67. Born in Beirut, Audi went on to study at Oxford and founded the Almeida Theatre in London in 1979, as well as its International Festival of Contemporary Music, which he directed until 1989. In 1988, he was appointed the Artistic Director of Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam where he {…}

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IN Series to Honor Peter Sellars at May 2 Gala

Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars’ ‘this body is so impermanent’

Peter Sellars To Give Keynote At Salzburg Festival

Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

Benjamin Bernheim, Asmik Grigorian, Christian Van Horn, Kelley O’Connor, & Megan Kahts Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Cast Change: Fleur Barron Joins Cast of ‘One Morning Turns Into Eternity’

Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: The Nine Jewelled Deer

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

Obituary: Legendary Director Pierre Audi Dies at 67