Royal Academy Opera 2021 Review: L’heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi

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(Credit: © Craig Fuller) When it comes to sex and death, timing is everything. The Royal Academy of Music is one of Europe’s leading conservatoires, with a renowned opera program for young singers whose stars are in the ascendant. This autumn they offered – across two casts – a double bill of Maurice Ravel’s mischievous farce “L’heure Espagnole” and Giacomo {…}

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Grange Park Opera to Stream ‘The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko’

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Grange Park Opera is set to stream its production of “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko” on Nov. 26, 2021. The opera was composed by Anthony Bolton and features a libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. The opera starred Adrian Dwyer, Rebecca Bottone, Stephan Loges, James Laing, Olivia Ray, and Edmund Danon. Stephen Barlow conducted a production by Stephen Medcalf. OperaWire’s {…}

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Isabel Leonard, Michael Fabiano, Quinn Kelsey, Kangmin Justin Kim, Jamie Barton Headline Santa Fe Opera’s 2022 Season

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Santa Fe Opera has announced its 2022 festival, which will run between July 1 through August 27, 2022. The season will include five new productions, 38 performances, one world premiere, one company premiere, and an international co-production. In sum, there will be 26 artists making their debuts and another 29 returning to the company. It all kicks off with “Carmen,” {…}

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Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) The world of spies, subterfuge, and assassination has long been grist to the operatic mill. Scarpia runs the secret police in “Tosca”; Paolo poisons Boccanegra in Verdi’s Venetian drama of political intrigue; Leonora infiltrates a prison disguised as a man in “Fidelio”. So a contemporary tale like that of dissident and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned {…}

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Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo: Ali Wright) The second half of Opera Holland Park’s revamped summer offering opened this week with Leoš Janáček’s late, philosophical comedy “The Cunning Little Vixen,” conducted by Jessica Cottis and directed by Stephen Barlow. One of the strange gifts of lockdown for Londoners – those blessed with gardens anyway – was the opportunity, working from home, to experience more {…}

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Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: La Bohème

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Grange Park Opera, the brainchild of go-getting impresario Wasfi Kani, has taken an energetic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year, seeing opportunity in challenge. They commissioned and performed a brand new work last summer on the hoof, “A Feast in a time of Plague;” they have offered filmed versions of Britten’s “Owen Wingrave” and Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole.” {…}

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Opera Holland Park Announces 2021 Season

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Opera Holland Park has announced its 2021 season. The festival will open in a redesigned, physically-distanced and semi-open auditorium and featuring five full productions: The summer season will open with Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” with George Jackson conducting Oliver Platt’s production. The cast is set to include Julien Van Mellaerts, Nardus Williams, Elizabeth Karani, Ross Ramgobin, and Samantha Price. {…}

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Sir John Tomlinson, Emma Bell & Louise Alder Lead Grange Festival 2021 Edition

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(Credits: Opera Online website / Paul Foster-Williams / Gerard Collett) The Grange Festival has announced its 2021 edition which will feature several opera productions headline by opera’s greatest stars. Here is the breakdown of what’s in store for 2021. Britten’s operatic masterpiece “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open the festival. The opera will feature Alexander Chance in the role of {…}

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Grange Festival Announces 2020 Season, Including Community Opera

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The Grange Festival has announced its 2020 season which will feature a number of major operas and even its first fully-stage community opera. The season kicks off with a production of “La Cenerentola” by director Stephen Barlow and conductor David Parry. Josè Maria Lo Monaco takes on the lead role with Nico Darmanin as the prince. Performance Dates: June 5-July 2, 2020 {…}

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Royal Academy Opera 2021 Review: L’heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi

Grange Park Opera to Stream ‘The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko’

Isabel Leonard, Michael Fabiano, Quinn Kelsey, Kangmin Justin Kim, Jamie Barton Headline Santa Fe Opera’s 2022 Season

Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

Opera Holland Park 2021 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: La Bohème

Opera Holland Park Announces 2021 Season

Sir John Tomlinson, Emma Bell & Louise Alder Lead Grange Festival 2021 Edition

Grange Festival Announces 2020 Season, Including Community Opera