Vienna State Opera to Offer Daily Live Streams From its Opera Archives

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Despite being closed for public performances, the Wiener Staatsoper has resolved to open up its streaming service to provide audiences with daily opera. Starting on Sunday, March 15, 2020, the company will start to stream operas from its archives for free on www.staatsoperlive.com. The online program is set to follow along with the same opera that audiences would have seen {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’

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UPDATE: Here are the schedules for Week 8 Week 9 In an effort to continue providing opera to its audience members, the Met Opera will host “Nightly Met Opera Streams” on its official website to audiences worldwide. These free streams will present encores of past performances from its famed Live in HD series. The encore presentations will begin at 7:30 {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau & Elīna Garanča Highlight Opéra de Paris’s 2020-21 Season

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The Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of new productions revivals. Here is a look. Domingo Hindoyan and Keri-Lynn Wilson lead performances of Bizet’s “Carmen” with Clémentine Margaine, Elīna Garanča, and Varduhi Abrahamyan sharing the title role and Vittorio Grigolo and Charles Castronovo as Don José. Adam Plachetka and Lucas Meachem alternate as Escamillo, {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva & Plácido Domingo Highlight Arena di Verona’s 2020 Festival

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(Credit: Benno Kraehahn) The Arena di Verona has announced the 2020 casting featuring an all-star lineup. The opening of the season will showcase a new production by Gabriele Muccino of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci.” Mascagni’s work will showcase Ekaterina Semenchuk, Alexia Voulgaridou, Maria José Siri, and Sonia Ganassi alternating as Santuzza and Murat Karahan, Carlo Ventre, Yusif Eyvazov, and Marcelo {…}

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Deutsche Oper Am Rhein & Teatro Real Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced the nominees for its 2020 Awards. The annual event, which celebrates achievement in opera around the globe over the 2019 calendar year, recognizes excellence in a wide range of categories that cover performance, design and direction, as well as education and outreach. This year, two opera companies topped the 2020 nominees with three a {…}

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The Great Link – Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Operas Experiencing Major Renaissance At Deutsche Oper Berlin

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(Credit: Pierre Petit) When Giacomo Meyerbeer died on May 2 in 1864 in Paris, he was one of the most performed composers of his time. Among the surviving manuscript documents in the Meyerbeer archive in Berlin is to be found a prayer that Giacomo Meyerbeer wrote on 8 December 1863, a few months before his death: “Great almighty God! … {…}

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Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: La Bohème

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(Photo Credit: Marty Sohl / Metropolitan Opera) On Jan. 9, 2020, the Metropolitan Opera resumed this season’s run of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Zeffirelli’s classically gorgeous production was enlivened by a solid cast of artists under the baton of conductor Marco Armiliato. For this revival, Gregory Keller directed the production which saw it’s performers through a myriad of comedic, animated interactions {…}

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OperaWire’s Top 10 Must-See Operas In 2020

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(Credit: Dario Acosta/Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Music/Paola Kudacki / Met Opera) The year 2019 offered up its fair share of amazing opera experiences. As the calendar changes to 2020, OperaWire is taking a look at some of the most hotly anticipated performances that the New Year will have to offer for audiences. Without further ado, here are the top 10 {…}

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Best Of 2019: OperaWire’s Top 11 Singers Of The Year

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(Credit: Catherine Ashmore/Royal Opera – Antoni Bofill/Gran Teatre del Liceu – Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) As we end the year its time to look back at the past 365-ish days and the big moments that defined 2019. It was a great year for numerous singers who broke-out and for established performers who took their careers in new directions or made important {…}

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Vienna State Opera to Offer Daily Live Streams From its Opera Archives

Metropolitan Opera to Offer Up ‘Nightly Met Opera Streams’

Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau & Elīna Garanča Highlight Opéra de Paris’s 2020-21 Season

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva & Plácido Domingo Highlight Arena di Verona’s 2020 Festival

Deutsche Oper Am Rhein & Teatro Real Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

The Great Link – Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Operas Experiencing Major Renaissance At Deutsche Oper Berlin

Metropolitan Opera 2019-20 Review: La Bohème

OperaWire’s Top 10 Must-See Operas In 2020

Best Of 2019: OperaWire’s Top 11 Singers Of The Year