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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Wexford Festival Opera 2025 Review: Il Viaggio A Reims

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(Photo: Padraig Grant) The Wexford Factory Academy is a program offering young singers the opportunity to take part in workshops, masterclasses and performances in the weeks leading up to and during the festival. The highlight of the program is a fully staged production on the festival’s main stage, in which all the roles are performed by the Factory singers. The {…}

News, Season Announcement

Wexford Festival Opera Unveils 75th Anniversary Season

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Wexford Festival Opera announces it 2026 season. This article only features opera events. Main Stage Operas First up is Pietro Mascagni and Luigi Illica’s “FIris.” Rosetta Cucchi directs and Francesco Cilluffo conducts. Performance Dates: October 15, 20, 23, 28, & 31, 2026 “L’equivoco stravagante” by Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Gasbarri is next. Max Hoehn directs. Riccardo Bisatti conducts. Performance Dates: October {…}

Streaming

Des Moines Metro Opera Announces Broadcasting Partnership & October 2025 Slate With Iowa PBS & Iowa Public Radio

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Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO) has announced a month-long broadcasting schedule in partnership with Iowa PBS and Iowa Public Radio. The initiative will allow audiences in Iowa and beyond to revisit performances from the company’s 2024 Festival Season, as well as its 2025 production of Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen.” As part of the company’s ongoing partnership with Iowa PBS, {…}

Interviews

Q & A: Soprano Larissa Rosanoff, From Financial Analyst to World Traveler to Opera Singer

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(Photo: Philippe Palma) Larissa Rosanoff spent seven years in Moscow studying piano at the Gnesin Academy of Music where she began, at the young age of five, her voyage in music. There she acquired the necessary base for continuing professional studies in Switzerland. The memories of having performed in such prestigious venues as the Tchaikovsky Hall or the Grande Hall {…}

News, Season Announcement

Chicago Fringe Opera Unveils 2025-26 Season

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Chicago Fringe Opera has unveiled its 2025-26 season. First up is the Chicago Fringe Opera x The Ear Taxi Festival at The Kehrein Center for the Performing Arts. The event will feature over 500 arts and over 5o hours of programming. Chicago Fringe Opera will showcase excerpts from three operas, including “Here Be Sirens,” “On My Mind,” and “No One’s {…}

News

Sondra Radvanovsky, Freddie De Tommaso, Anastasia Bartoli, Elīna Garanča & Huw Montague Rendall Lead International Opera Awards Nominees

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The International Opera Awards have announced its 2025 nominees. The nominees for Opera Company of the Year are Deutsche Oper Berlin, GöteborgsOperan, Houston Grand Opera, MusikTheater an der Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, and Teatro alla Scala.  Meanwhile, in the Female Singer category, Anastasia Bartoli, Elsa Dreisig, Véronique Gens, Asmik Grigorian, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Adela Zaharia are the nominees.  In the Male Singer {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayreuth Festival 2025: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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(Photo credit: ©Enrico Nawrath) “My friend, that’s exactly the poet’s job: to make notes of his dreams – and then interpret them.” Hans Sachs, Act III A great mistake is often made in considering Wagner’s operas as complicated. Rather, they are dense, psychological investigations directly confronting archetype personages, be they gods, myths, or members of the family of man. When {…}

News, Season Announcement

Canadian Opera Company Announces Free Concert Series

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The Canadian Opera Company releases the details of its 2025 Free Concert Series. This article only features classical vocal events. All performances are held in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre.  “Meet the Ensemble Studio” opens the season. Soprano Emma Pennell, mezzo-soprano Ariana Maubach, tenor Angelo Moretti, baritone Ben Wallace, and bass-baritone Nicholas Murphy will introduce themselves by singing one of their {…}

News

Anastasia Bartoli, Ruzil Gatin, Raffaella Lupinacci & Piero Pretti Lead Macerata Opera Festival’s 2026 Season

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The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2026 season. The festival will be held between July 17 and August 9, 2026. The season will open with Verdi’s “Nabucco” in a production by Paul-Émile Fourny and conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati. Ariun Ganbaatar, Alberto Comes, Anastasia Bartoli, Alessandro Scotto Di Luzio, and Laura Verrecchia star. Performance Dates: July 17-August 9, 2026 {…}