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Opera Holland Park review 2024: Il segreto di Susanna / I Pagliacci

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(Photo: Ali Wright) Opera Holland Park has made a name for itself rummaging around in the cupboard of verismo and polishing up the gems they find. Puccini’s seldom-performed “Edgar” featured in the 2024 summer offering – to mixed reviews, mostly ascribed to the uneven quality of the work than the artistry – now complemented by a striking new double bill {…}
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Munich Opera Festival 2024 Review: Die Passagieren

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(Credit: W.Hoesl) It was particularly notable to watch Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s opera, “Die Passagieren” in Munich, even all these years after World War II. To walk the same streets where once goose-stepping Nazi soldiers rallied round Hitler and to visit the elegant, rebuilt National Theater to see an opera about the tragedy of that very subject intensified the experience. “Die Passagieren” {…}
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Dubai Opera Unveils September 2024 Slate

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Dubai Opera has announced its September 2024 performances. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances. The season starts with “Aida” in a production directed by Roberto Laganà Manoli and conducted by Patrick Fournillier. The work is performed by the Polish National Opera and stars Marigona Querkezi and Oxana Nosatova in the title roles; Agnieszka Rehlis and Monika Ledzion as {…}
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Kosciuszko Foundation Announces the 2024 Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition

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The Kosciuszko Foundation has announced details of the 2024 Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition. This year’s competition is open to singers of all voice types and nationalities between the ages of 20 and 32. The jury panel includes conductor Daniele Callegari and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny. Under the artistic direction of Thomas Lausmann, Director of Music Administration at the Metropolitan Opera, {…}
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Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Celebrating 22 Years of Sir Antonio Pappano

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A truly packed house, a cast of operatic luminaries and a program of works chosen and compiled by Maestro Pappano himself; a Gala, fit for a KING, surely? Which is just as well because His Royal Highness King Charles III was in the audience as a truly surprise guest of honor, courtesy of a massive covert security operation that even {…}
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Liudmyla Monastyrska & Rafał Siwek Headline the 2024 Baltic Opera Festival

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(Photo credit: LA Opera, Karpati&Zarewicz) The Baltic Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season lineup. Liudmyla Monastyrska and Rafał Siwek perform the lead roles in “Turandot.” Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. Waldemar Zawodziński directs. Performance Dates: July 20 & 25, 2024 (Forest Opera in Sopot) Natalia Babińska’s production of Engelbert Humperdinck, “Hansel and Gretel” is next. The cast {…}
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National Forum of Music Announces 2024-25 Season

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The National Forum of Music announces its 2024-25 and tenth anniversary season. For the purposes of this article only vocal works are included. Andrzej Kosendiak conducts the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic and soloists Anett Fritsch, Anna Mikołajczyk-Niewiedział, Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak, and Paweł Horodyski in Mozart’s “Mass in C minor,” KV 427. They are joined by the NFM Choir under the direction {…}
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Opera Forward Festival 2024 Review: Oedipus Rex & Antigone

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One of the main events at this year’s Opera Forward Festival in Amsterdam was a Sophocles-inspired double bill featuring Stravinsky’s 1927 work “Oedipus Rex” and the world premiere of Samy Moussa’s new composition “Antigone.” Although neither piece is defined as an opera as such, both sit comfortably at home within the repertoire. “Oedipus Rex” is described as an opera-oratorio and {…}
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Melanie Diener & Thomas Hampson Lead the 2024 Waiblingen International Opera Workshop

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(Photo credit: Jiyang Chen) The Waiblingen International Opera Workshop aimed at up-and-coming singers from Germany and abroad has announced its 2024 dates. This year, the fifth Waiblingen International Opera Workshop takes place Sept. 15-21, 2024. It is led by Waiblingen native, soprano Melanie Diener and American baritone Thomas Hampson, who initiated the program in 2019. The creative team is completed {…}

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