Athlone Artists Announces New Addition to Roster

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Athlone Artists has announced that tenor Orson Van Gay II and soprano Ashley Galvani Bell have joined the roster for representation. Van Gay is a Los Angeles Native who has performed with such companies as Pacific Opera Project, Piedmont Opera, Angels Vocal Art, and Pocket Opera, among others. Meanwhile Bell has appeared with such organizations as ABAO Bilbao Opera, Teatro {…}

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Music at Kohl Mansion to Present ‘Holiday Roulette: A Mezzo Mash-up!’

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Music at Kohl Mansion has announced the addition of a joyous seasonal concert, “Holiday Roulette: A Mezzo Mash-up!” on Dec. 3, 2023. The performance will feature mezzo-sopranos Nikola Printz and Gabrielle Beteag, along with pianist-producer Ronny Michael Greenberg. The concert will be held against the backdrop of Burlingame’s historic Kohl Mansion, adorned with its renowned holiday lights and decorations. The {…}

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Thousands Of Students Come Together For ‘Carmen’ At Olympic Park in London

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(Credit: James Bellorini Photography) Over 1,000 students appeared in the largest staging of Bizet’s “Carmen” in the United Kingdom. The showcase, which took place on June 26, 2019, brought together 35 schools nationwide at the Copper Box Arena in London’s Olympic Park. The performance was staged and directed by the English Pocket Opera and featured four professional singers and a {…}

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Obituary: Alamo City Impresario Mark Richter Dies At 51

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Opera and concert producer Mark Richter has died, according to Alamo City Opera music director Kristin Roach. Music director Roach announced the death of the 51-year-old who was currently serving as the artistic director of the Alamo City Opera. Richter died on April 28, 2019, at Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, where he was hospitalized for about 10 days. Richter grew up on the {…}

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Piotr Beczala Announces Moniuszko’s ‘Halka’ For Theater an der Wien In 2019

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Piotr Beczala has announced that the Theater an der Wien will present Stanislaw Moniuszko’s “Halka” in 2019. He announced that the performance will be conducted by Łukasz Borowicz and will be directed by Mariusz Treliński with the stage designed by Boris Kudlicka. Written in 1847, the opera is rarely performed in the U.S., but it is part of the canon of Polish national {…}

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Q & A: Swedish Mezzo-Soprano Alexandra Olsson Andersen on Building a Versatile Career

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(Photo: Tomas Kullström) Swedish mezzo-soprano Alexandra Olsson Andersen’s work spans opera, concert, theater, and film, with a growing reputation for physically demanding roles and a strong presence in the trouser repertoire. She studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, the Norwegian National Academy of Opera in Oslo, and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she {…}

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Q & A: Ana María Martínez on the Oscar Nominated Song ‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from ‘Viva Verdi’

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(Credit: Ashkan Roayaee) In early January, “Sweet Dreams of Joy,” the song in the documentary “Viva Verdi,” was shortlisted in the 15 finalists. However, no one gave it a chance as the field included such stars as Miley Cyrus, Ed Sheeran, Billy Idol, Stephen Schwartz and Nine Inch Nails. But on Jan. 22, 2026, when the Academy announced the nominees {…}

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Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa 2026 Review: Il trovatore

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(Photo: Marcello Orselli) The seventeenth of Verdi’s twenty-six operas, “Il trovatore” (1853) is considered the archetypal senseless opera, thanks to its convoluted and highly implausible plot. So absurd is its premise that it was used in the Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera” (1935) to elicit laughs. But despite this, “Il trovatore” has remained one of the most popular {…}

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CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘La ville morte’

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Is it mere coincidence that Nadia Boulanger’s “La ville morte” and Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt” fixate so obsessively on the past? In both works, the “dead city” is less a place than a psychological condition. Yet whereas Korngold’s necrophilia is filtered through Freudian “psychologie pathologique,” Boulanger’s figures inhabit a Symbolist world of ancestral trauma and fatality. “La ville morte” reads {…}

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Athlone Artists Announces New Addition to Roster

Music at Kohl Mansion to Present ‘Holiday Roulette: A Mezzo Mash-up!’

Thousands Of Students Come Together For ‘Carmen’ At Olympic Park in London

Obituary: Alamo City Impresario Mark Richter Dies At 51

Piotr Beczala Announces Moniuszko’s ‘Halka’ For Theater an der Wien In 2019

Q & A: Swedish Mezzo-Soprano Alexandra Olsson Andersen on Building a Versatile Career

Q & A: Ana María Martínez on the Oscar Nominated Song ‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from ‘Viva Verdi’

Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa 2026 Review: Il trovatore

CD Review: Pentatone’s ‘La ville morte’