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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 {…}

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Macerata Opera Festival 2025 Review: Macbeth

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(Photo: Alia Simoncini) Giuseppe Verdi’s “Macbeth,” with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on William Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” (1606) and was first performed in Florence at Teatro della Pergola on March 14, 1847. This year, for Macerata Opera Festival’s 61st season, the opera is revived by Federico Gagliardi along with Director Emma Dante and Conductor Fabrizio Maria Carminati. {…}

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CD Review: Naxos’ ‘Nerone’

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  An obsession more than just a pet project, the decade-long history of “Nerone” is but an imperfect indicator of the gargantuan scale Arrigo Boito envisioned for his imperial tragedy. The opera is an unwieldy amalgamation of music that–like the scapigliatura movement itself–occupies a liminal space: neither conformist nor truly progressive, but somehow perpetually discontent. “Nerone” very much fits the {…}

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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 {…}

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Bayreuth Festival 2025 Review: Der Ring Des Nibelungen

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(Photo Credit: Enrico Nawrath) The power of the music transcends any single interpreter. From the primal opening chord the rising and falling of Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk will lead audiences through 17 hours of an ecstatic vision. Amidst such orchestral glory, however, the second cycle of the Bayreuth Festival’s 2025 “Ring” provided plenty of conceptual confusion as Wagner-lovers bid a grateful {…}

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Innsbruck Early Music Festival 2025 Review: Ifigenia in Aulide

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(Photo:Birgit Gufler) In 1718, the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara and the librettist Apostolo Zeno premiered their opera “Ifigenia in Aulide” for the imperial court in Vienna to celebrate Emperor Karl VI of Austria’s name day. This summer, over three hundred years since its last staging, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival brought together a stellar cast under the musical direction of {…}

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Macerata Opera Festival 2025 Review: Rigoletto

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(Photo: MOF Simoncini) The Macerata Opera Festival takes place at the outdoor Sferisterio Arena, constructed between 1823-1829, located next to the Porta Mercato gate and ancient walls of Macerata, Italy. The arena was originally built for the Italian national sport of pallone col bracciale which was popular for almost five centuries dating back to the 15th century. In 1921, the {…}

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Tête à Tête Announces 2025 London Opera Festival Program

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Tête à Tête Opera Festival returns to London. Janet Oates and Simon Pettifar’s new opera, “Hidden Lovers” is produced by Mayhem Opera. Performance Date: September 22, 2025 “The Fairy Temple” by Lucinda Guy and Robert Herrick is next. Performance Date: September 23, 2025 Young Opera Makers presents “Peeled Back: A Triple Bill.” The program features “Get Your Licks In” by {…}

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Teatro Nuovo 2025 Review: Macbeth

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Verdi’s “Macbeth” is a pillar of the standard repertory, beloved for the composer’s ability to capture the spirit of one of the bard’s great plays. If “Macbeth” never captures the raw power of “Otello” or the immaculate precision and robustness of “Falstaff,” it is merely because of his three Shakespeare adaptations, this is the earliest in his oeuvre. And yet, {…}