Gran Teatro Nacional de Perú Announces 2023 Season

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The Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú has announced its 2023 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal and operatic performances. Peruvian tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas will return to the Gran Teatro Nacional as part of the Radio Filarmonía’s annual concert. He will perform with the Bicentennial National Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Theater Basel 2022-23 Review: Rigoletto

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On the 21st of January 2023, the Basel Opera premiered a new production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” directed by the French stage director Vincent Huguet. The result was an abstract, new production with a strong cast and a great conductor, a successful result all around that was recognized by the audience. A Promising Star Vincent Huguet is one of the most {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: The Realism of Francesco Rosi’s ‘Carmen’

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Films based on opera often feel inadequate. They are frequently an attempt to introduce reality into art, and this concept is flawed. Directors fail to realize that what it should be is the other way around: bringing art into reality, making opera about human beings and their everyday trials. Luckily, some directors do know what they’re doing, and Italian director {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Matthias Goerne & Georg Solti Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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It’s the third week of the year and there are already a number of exciting new releases. Check out these new works. Schubert Revisited Matthias Goerne records alongside the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Florian Donderer. Matthias Goerne, one of the most high-profile Schubertians of his generation, has recorded a selection of Schubert’s songs not in their original versions with piano {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Alasdair Kent on Mozart, Bel Canto & His Beginnings

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(Credit: John Matthew Myers) Over the few years, Alasdair Kent has garnered international attention singing at the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, among others. He has become a leading Bel Canto tenor of choice performing some of the most virtuosic tenor roles in the repertoire from Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini. A winner of the First {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Pinchgut Opera 2022 Review: Medée

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(Photo credit: Cassandra Hannagan) In a podcast for Pinchgut Opera’s latest production, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s opera “Médée,” Artistic Director Erin Helyard describes the first interpreter of the title role in 1693, Marie le Rochois, as “the greatest actress in all of France.” “Actress.” Not singer? But perhaps the designation provides a clue as to how to appreciate this early French baroque {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2022 Review: Dialogues of the Carmelites

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Remarkable. Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” opened at the San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House for the first time since the 1980s. We were strangers as the curtain rose, far away in time and belief, conviction, and the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution. Yet we were also familiars, who knew in our hearts and minds the {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Composer Sarah Van Sciver & Librettist Kirsten C. Kunkle on Their New Opera ‘Girondines’

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On Oct. 21, 2022, Wilmington Concert Opera will present a new opera, “Girondines,” composed by Sarah Van Sciver, to a libretto by WCO’s Co-founder and Artistic Director, Kirsten C. Kunkle. Van Sciver will music direct and perform as the presentation’s pianist. “Girondines” is a story of a society of six women, all living during the time of the French Revolution. {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Michael Kelly, Jodie Devos, Erin Morley & Anna Lucia Richter Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences get to listen to rarely performed operas, world premiere pieces, and two solo albums by important sopranos in the world. Maidan The new album by Valentin Silvestrov continues his longstanding association with ECM and presents a program of choir music that is as timely as it is dear to the Ukrainian composer’s heart. The new album embraces {…}

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Gran Teatro Nacional de Perú Announces 2023 Season

Theater Basel 2022-23 Review: Rigoletto

Opera Meets Film: The Realism of Francesco Rosi’s ‘Carmen’

Matthias Goerne & Georg Solti Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Q & A: Alasdair Kent on Mozart, Bel Canto & His Beginnings

Pinchgut Opera 2022 Review: Medée

San Francisco Opera 2022 Review: Dialogues of the Carmelites

Q & A: Composer Sarah Van Sciver & Librettist Kirsten C. Kunkle on Their New Opera ‘Girondines’

Michael Kelly, Jodie Devos, Erin Morley & Anna Lucia Richter Lead New CD/DVD Releases