Park Avenue Armory to Present Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)’ NYC Debut

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Editor’s Note – A previous version of this article stated that DACAMERA was presenting the New York Premiere when in fact it is Park Avenue Armory. The title and content of the article have been modified to reflect the correct information on this matter. Park Avenue Armory is set to present the New York premiere of Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light.” {…}

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San Francisco Opera 2021-22 Review: Don Giovanni

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San Francisco Opera’s summer production of Mozart’s dark comedy “Don Giovanni” gives us so much more than we could ever ask for from this operatic gem. From the opening downbeat, conductor Bertrand de Billy led us through the variant plot twists and turns with the only questions being – Will we cheer for the great libertine’s demise? Or will we {…}

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Opéra National de Paris 2021-22 Review: Wagner’s Parsifal

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(Credit: Vincent Pontet / ONP) The week Rafael Nadal lifted his trophy for an unprecedented 14th victory at the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris, the opera public attending Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Opéra National de Paris at the Bastille saw tenor Simon O’Neill triumphantly raise a supersized Holy Grail chalice with a shape that had an uncanny resemblance {…}

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Sean Panikkar, J’Nai Bridges, Sir Willard White Headline San Francisco Symphony’s ‘Oedipus Rex’

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The San Francisco Symphony is set to present Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” and “Symphony of Psalms” on June 10-12, 2022. The showcase will be conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by Peter Sellars, in the first of a four-year collaboration during which the director will mount four large-scale productions between 2022-25. “This particular combination of two major Stravinsky pieces premiered in {…}

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Marina Rebeka, Julia Bullock, J’Nai Bridges & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announced its 2022-23 season with productions, four world premieres, two European premieres, six new productions, and four family operas. The season opens with a revival of Bizet’s “Carmen” with Jordan de Souza conducting a cast that includes J’Nai Bridges, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Lukasz Golinski, and Adriana González. Performance Dates: Sept. 3 – 22, 2022 Engelbert {…}

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Julia Bullock, Golda Schultz & Ian Bostridge Lead San Francisco Symphony’s 2022-23 Season

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The San Francisco Symphony has announced its 2022-23 season and will feature numerous vocal performances. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Golda Schultz and Michelle DeYoung will perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting. A work by Trevor Weston will have its world premiere. Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 2, 2022 Esa-Pekka Salonen {…}

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Q & A: Director Lillian Groag on Breathing New Life into ‘Carmen’ at Opera San José

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When she was a child, Lillian Groag’s family treated opera as if it were pop music. So it’s no surprise that by the time she was but five, she was already attending her first opera and falling in love with the art form. “By 10 I knew the words of all the big 10 which I wailed around the house {…}

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Teatro Nacional de São Carlos 2021-22 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

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Opera performances resumed at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon earlier this year as Portugal’s handling of the pandemic was widely praised as possibly the best within the European Union. In Lisbon, ensembles large and small have begun filling up local church series, community performance spaces, and neighborhood stages, while fado singers have returned to smokey late-night bars {…}

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Bayerische Staatsoper 2020-21 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Credit© W. Hösl) Richard Wagner thought that if people ever got to see an ideal performance of his opera “Tristan und Isolde” it would drive them mad. In the case of Munich’s new Tristan, at the Bayerische Staatsoper, where the work premiered in 1865, the madness began well before opening night. Since March 2020, when a new Tristan was announced {…}

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Park Avenue Armory to Present Tyshawn Sorey’s ‘Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)’ NYC Debut

San Francisco Opera 2021-22 Review: Don Giovanni

Opéra National de Paris 2021-22 Review: Wagner’s Parsifal

Sean Panikkar, J’Nai Bridges, Sir Willard White Headline San Francisco Symphony’s ‘Oedipus Rex’

Marina Rebeka, Julia Bullock, J’Nai Bridges & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

Julia Bullock, Golda Schultz & Ian Bostridge Lead San Francisco Symphony’s 2022-23 Season

Q & A: Director Lillian Groag on Breathing New Life into ‘Carmen’ at Opera San José

Teatro Nacional de São Carlos 2021-22 Review: La Clemenza di Tito

Bayerische Staatsoper 2020-21 Review: Tristan und Isolde