Barbara Hannigan’s Iceland Symphony Orchestra Unveils 2026-27 Season

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Iceland Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2026-27 season under Chief Conductor Barbara Hannigan. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Sopranos Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir and Bryndís Guðjónsdóttir, tenor Elmar Gilbertsson, and Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson star in “Our Classics,” a program featuring works by Mozart, Puccini, Bach, Sibelius, Páll Ísólfsson, and Tchaikovsky. The Reykjavík Male Choir also performs. Daníel Bjarnason conducts. {…}

News, Season Announcement

Philharmonie Luxembourg Announces 2026-27 Season Featuring Andrè Schuen, Magdalena Kožená, Christian Gerhaher, Julia Lezhneva, Franco Fagioli

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The Philharmonie Luxembourg has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst perform works by Strauss with Golda Schultz as the soloist. Performance Sate: Oct. 5, 2026 Elionor Martínez and Josep Maria Martí Duran join forces for works by Caccini, Campmany, Dowland, Ferrabosco, Händel, Hidalgo, Monteverdi, Nicholson, Purcell, and Strozzi. Performance Sate: Oct. 27, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Ballet & Opera 2025-26 Review: Peter Grimes

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(Photo: ©2026 Tristram Kenton) If you have ever visited to the Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten lived, and which inspired his 1945 opera “Peter Grimes” – based on George Crabbe’s poem “The Borough” – then you will surely remember the remarkable views from the sea front: vast, empty skies, sunlight blazing on the water like a purifying {…}

News, Season Announcement

Benjamin Bernheim, Sabine Devieilhe, Olga Peretyatko, Magdalena Kožená, Klaus Florian Vogt, Nadine Sierra, Elza van den Heever, Michael Volle & Miina-Liisa Värelä Lead Philharmonie de Paris’ 2026-27 Season

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The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances for the season. Yannick Nezet-Seguin will conduct Elza van den Heever and the Met Orchestra in a program of Strauss music. Performance Date: Sept. 1, 2026 Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Joyce DiDonato team up with the Met Orchestra for Mahler and Kaija Saariaho. Performance Date: Sept. 2, {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Adds One Performance of ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Due to High Demand

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(Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has added an additional performance of “Tristan und Isolde” due to overwhelming demand. The company said that the additional performance will be on April 4, at 12 p.m. and tickets will go on sale on Monday, March 9, at 12 p.m. ET. The cast will include soprano Lise Davidsen as Isolde, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Shanghai Opera House 2025 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Photo: Rudolph Tang) If music is the art of time, Wagner’s opera is the art of a great deal of time—and gaining access to it at its shrine demands an extraordinary investment of time. For many years, a single ticket to the Bayreuth Festival was among the most coveted prizes for serious Wagnerians. It was rumored that applicants might wait up to {…}

Business

Houston Symphony Orchestra Drops Interim Tag on Chief Marketing Director Following Historic Season

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The Houston Symphony Orchestra has named Alex Soares to the position of Chief Marketing Director. Soares has held the position of Interim Chief Marketing Officer since 2024, but the company decided to keep him in the title permanently following a strong season of results. Per an official press release, total ticketing revenue for 2025 exceeded $13 million, a historic high {…}

News

Philadelphia Orchestra Losses NEA Funding for Pride Concert

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As Pride Month kicks off, the Philadelphia Orchestra has announced that it has lost its National Endowment for the Arts funding for its Pride Concert. The orchestra announced the news via social media, noting, “The Philadelphia Orchestra is a nonprofit organization that believes in the power of music to bring people together, create understanding, and speak to the human spirit. {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Nina Stemme on Her Farewell to Isolde, her Philadelphia Orchestra Debut & Singing Wagner

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For years, Nina Stemme has been regarded as one of the great interpreters of the Wagner repertoire. Her Isolde has been widely admired by audiences around the world at some of the greatest theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, and Berlin. In May 2004, she bid farewell to the role in a stage production, and now June 1, she {…}

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