Danielle De Niese, Michael Fabiano, Jessica Pratt, Leo Nucci & Ferruccio Furlanetto Headline Opera Australia’s 2018 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2018 season featuring a number of important debuts and some of the most prestigious singers in the world. Sydney Summer 2018 The summer season kicks off with Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” featuring Danielle De Niese in her Opera Australia debut. The opera will be Conducted by Vanessa Scammell and directed by Graeme Murphy. Presented at {…}

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Michael Sylvester’s Three Essential Recordings

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Michael Sylvester was one of the most sought after tenors in the 1990s singing at all the major opera houses in the world. While he never achieved the fame other tenors of his generation had, Sylvester was still beloved throughout the opera world. In the course of his 25-year career on the opera stage, he appeared in leading tenor roles {…}

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40 Funs Facts About Tenor Arturo Chacón Cruz

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Arturo Chacón Cruz is one of the major Mexican tenors setting the opera world on fire. On August 20, 1977, he turns 40, giving OperaWire a chance to look at 40 fun facts about the tenor, who is now entering his prime. He was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. Chacón Cruz graduated from the Houston Grand Opera Studio… …and Boston {…}

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Fabio Armiliato’s Metropolitan Opera Performances

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Fabio Armiliato is one of the most respected Italian tenors of his generation. Together with his late wife Daniela Dessi, he performed all over the world in many of the most popular works. He also made a career out of championing less known operas. While he is currently in demand in Europe, his U.S. engagements continue to be limited with {…}

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Verdi, Verdi & Something Else: The Roles Krassimira Stoyanova & Sharon Sweet Both Sang

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Sharon Sweet and Krassimira Stoyanova. Two sopranos born on August 16 with rather different careers. The former was a well-known American dramatic soprano who took on a wide range of Italian and German repertoire, most prominently singing operas by Wagner and Verdi. The latter, a Bulgarian with a far lighter voice, has slowly dug into that very same dramatic repertoire, {…}

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Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo To Showcase Baritone Günter Haumer

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Colombia’s Teatro Estudio at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo will showcase a recital featuring baritone Günter Haumer and the Cuarteto Q Arte Colombia this Saturday, August 19, 2017. The program, which starts at 8 p.m. CT will kick off Othmar Schoeck’s “Notturno, Op. 47,” which was composed in 1933. After an intermission, Samuel Barber’s “Dover Beach, Op. 3,” {…}

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10 Must See Opera Productions Of The Fall 2017-18 Season [International]

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After showcasing a wide range of repertoire that will be showcased this fall in the United States, it’s time to look at the European theaters. With hundreds of houses around the world opening at the same time, it was challenging to put together this list. But after looking through several theaters, OperaWire has curated the must-see operas for this fall {…}

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West Edge Opera 2017 Review – The Chastity Tree: An Exciting & Enticing Comedic Romp

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A romp, a fiesta, a “lotta” fun, and musically, young-voice rich – that’s West Edge Opera’s production of “The Chastity Tree,” the 18th century comedy, à la Mozart, by Vicente Martin Y Soler. One of the trio of Summer Opera Festival performances by the “edgy” West Edge Company, founded in 1979, as Commedia dell’Opera, then as Berkeley Opera, has added {…}

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From Hollywood to Verdi: Tenor Riccardo Massi On His Quick Rise & Favorite Composer

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Seven years. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Berlin State Opera, Royal Swedish Opera and Metropolitan Opera. Those are just some of the companies that have featured spinto tenor Riccardo Massi. Seven years. Now in his 30s, the tenor is slowly stealing the spotlight as one of the most exciting tenors on the rise, his vocal artistry matched by his {…}

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Danielle De Niese, Michael Fabiano, Jessica Pratt, Leo Nucci & Ferruccio Furlanetto Headline Opera Australia’s 2018 Season

Michael Sylvester’s Three Essential Recordings

40 Funs Facts About Tenor Arturo Chacón Cruz

Fabio Armiliato’s Metropolitan Opera Performances

Verdi, Verdi & Something Else: The Roles Krassimira Stoyanova & Sharon Sweet Both Sang

Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo To Showcase Baritone Günter Haumer

10 Must See Opera Productions Of The Fall 2017-18 Season [International]

West Edge Opera 2017 Review – The Chastity Tree: An Exciting & Enticing Comedic Romp

From Hollywood to Verdi: Tenor Riccardo Massi On His Quick Rise & Favorite Composer