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West Green House Opera Announces 2025 Season

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The West Green House Opera has announced its 2025 season celebrating its 25th anniversary. The season will be dedicated to works inspired by Shakespeare. Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” will take the stage with a cast that includes Fflur Wyn, Katie Coventry, Julian Henao Gonzalez, Timothy Nelson, and Henry Waddington. John Andrews conducts the production by Lysanne van Overbeek. Performance Date: July 18, {…}

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English Touring Opera Present Shakespeare-Themed Spring 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith) English Touring Opera has announced its upcoming Shakespeare-themed spring 2025 season. Stops on the tour include London, York, Truro, Norwich, Durham, Crawley, Snape, Sheffield, Buxton, Exeter, Canterbury, and Poole. The seasons starts off with a new production of Bellini’s “The Capulets and the Montagues,” by Eloise Lally. Jessica Cale, Samantha Price, Brenton Spiteri, Timothy Nelson, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Critic

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(Photo: Patricio Cassinoni) History has not been kind to Charles Villiers Stanford’s reputation as an opera composer. During his lifetime he wrote nine complete operas, which, apart from his comic opera “Seamus O’Brien,” was met with limited success. Today, they are rarely performed, and none have found their way into the mainstream repertoire. In 2019, the Wexford Festival Opera produced {…}

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Random Opera Presents Unique ‘Rockstar’ Take on Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’

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Random Opera is set to present “Don Giovanni.” The Mozart masterpiece will be presented on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024 at Temple Speech Room, Rugby, and features James Gillett at the piano and conducting a cast that stars Mike Dewis in the title role. Richard Tegid Jones’ production showcases the infamous anti-hero as an aging rock star who is still able {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Lise Lindstrom discusses Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, & Life

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(Credit: Rosie Hardy) Lise Lindstrom recently took time to converse with Benjamin Torbert for OperaWire. Lindstrom sings all three Brünnhildes in “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried,” and “Götterdämmerung” in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s very lightly staged concert presentation of Wagner’s “Der Ring Des Nibelungen,” on 13-20 October 2024. She already appeared with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for two performances of “Walküre” in {…}

Pride Month, Reviews, Stage Reviews

Asheville Gay Men’s Chorus 2024 Review: Uprising

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On June 22, 2024, the Asheville Gay Men’s Chorus presented its Pride Month concert, “Uprising.” The beautifully curated programming by Artistic Director Simone Bernhard featured a balanced mix of songs focusing on themes of protest, adversity, hope, and affirmation. Not only did Bernhard fashion an inspiring set of music, she led the chorus with a spirit of compassion and energy. {…}

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Brooklyn Art Song Society Unveils 2024-25 Season

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Brooklyn Art Song Society has revealed its 2024-25 season. Histories The first concert in the “Histories” series is “Das Wort,” which features music by Brahms, Dvorak, and Wolf. Soloists include Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Anna Laurenzo, Sidney Outlaw, and Brian James Myer. Pianists featured are Michael Brofman, Warren Jones, and Ryan McCullough. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2024 “Medieval” showcases the music of {…}

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Wild Arts Announces Summer 2024 Slate

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Wild Arts has announced its 2024 summer season. There will be three programs. First up is the “Opera Evenings,” which will feature works by Gershwin, Mozart, Rossini, Lehár, Tchaikovsky, and Händel, among others. Performers include Galina Averina, Martha Jones, Xavier Hetherington, and Timothy Nelson. The showcase will be presented at Kent, Dorset, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Gloucestershire, Surrey, Somerset, {…}