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Jakub Józef Orliński, Alice Coote, Malin Byström, Dame Sarah Connolly & Anne Sofie von Otter Lead Wigmore Hall’s 2024-25 Season

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Wigmore Hall has announced its 2024-25 season from September to December. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Jakub Józef Orliński and il Pomo d’Oro open the season with Beyoind. Performance Date: Sept. 12, 2024 Véronique Gens, Fleur Barron, Laurence Kilsby, Stéphane Degout, Susan Manoff, and Julius Drake perform a Faure song gala. Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2024 Laurence {…}
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Conductor René Jacobs to Lead Final Concert of Orfeo Week

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Conductor René Jacobs is set to present selections from “Orfeo ed Euridice” on Dec. 3 at the Teatro alle Vigne in Lodi. The concert represents the Italian comeback for the conductor and will take place during the second edition of Orfeo Week. The showcase will be dedicated to Gaetano Guadagni, the castrato for whom Gluck wrote the famed opera. Jacobs {…}
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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2023 Review: L’Olimpiade

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(Photo: Birgit Gufler) After 13 years in the post, Alessandro De Marchi brings his tenure as the artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music to a close with a program dominated by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Not only do many of the festival’s events feature his music, including the festival’s closing concert “Lieto Fine,” but all three {…}
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Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Announces 2023-24 Season

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Germany’s Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the operatic and vocal performances. Premieres Verdi’s “Nabucco” will get a new production by Thaddeus Strassberger. Yura Yang conducts. Premiere Date: Oct. 21, 2023 Strauss’ “Die schweigsame Frau” will be conducted by Georg Fritzsch and directed by Mariame Clément. Premiere Date: Dec. 19, 2023 Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” will {…}
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Pretty Yende, Allan Clayton, Matthew Polenzani & Anna Lucia Richter Lead Konzerthaus Dortmund’s 2023-24 Season

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The Konzerthaus Dortmund has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Lahav Shani open the season with Hila Baggio. The concert will include music by Paul Ben-Haim, Betty Olivero, and Gustav Mahler. Performance Date: Sept. 3, 2023 Anna Lucia Richter and Ammiel Bushakevitz perform a recital of music by Wolkenstein, {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2022-23 Review: Li Zite Ngalera

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(Photo: Brescia & Amisano) One of the more eye-catching works of Teatro La Scala’s current season is Leonardo Vinci’s “Li Zite Ngalera,” which has just finished a run of five performances. Vinci was born between 1690 and 1696 in Italy’s Calabria region but was dead by 1730, possibly poisoned by a jealous husband. Yet during his short life, he was {…}
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Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces 47th Season Lineup

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The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music has announced the program for its 47th season. Running from July 11 to August 29 and featuring 48 events across 14 venues, this season will mark the last under Artistic Director Alessandro de Marchi after 14 years with the festival. Among the highlights are three works by Antonio Vivaldi: Stefano Vizioli directs “Olimpiade,” with a {…}
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Teatro La Fenice 2021-22 Review: Apollo et Hyacinthus

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(Photo: Michele Crosera) On May 13th 1767, the students of the Salzburg University Gymnasium premiered the three-act intermezzo “Apollo et Hyacinthus.” The significance of the event was that it was the first performance of an opera composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time. Although its music certainly has much to commend it, dramatically it {…}
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Carmela Remigio, Andrew Garland & Nina Minasyan Lead New CD/DVD releases

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This week audiences can listen to world premieres, rising stars, and watch two rarely performed operas. Songs of Earth and Air Lorelt CD Label is set to release an album of vocal works composed by Rhian Samuel, inspired by poetry celebrating nature and her love of the Welsh countryside. Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams presents a collage of songs and {…}

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