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Best of 2018: OperaWire Staff Picks Most Memorable Opera Performances Of the Year

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Yes, it’s that time of the year where we wax poetic about transformative experiences we have had over the course of the last 300 or so days. Sometimes we curate these experiences as rankings to fuel some individual emotions, and at other moments we simply do what we are doing with this piece – let a few different people chip {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Warner Classics To Release Berlioz’s Complete Works

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Warner Classics is set to honor the 150th anniversary of Hector Berlioz’s death with the release of the first-ever complete recorded edition of the composer’s works. The new box set, entitled “Berlioz: The Complete Works,” will feature 27 discs with milestone recordings spanning over 60 years of the Warner Classics, Erato, and Universal. The collection will include a recording of “Les {…}

News

Top 4 Operas to See This Weekend – North America (11/23-25)

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Where has all the opera gone? Thanksgiving means that most companies are closed for business, leaving few opera options overall. Not everyone is daunted by this, so here is a look at what you can engage with this holiday weekend. Roméo et Juliette – Calgary Opera Association On Friday, Calgary Opera Association will showcase the classic Gounod opera in a {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Los Angeles Opera 2018-19 Review: Hansel & Gretel

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There are cases for quite serious readings of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera “Hansel and Gretel,” which Los Angeles Opera has just opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a revival of Doug Fitch’s 2006 production. In his program booklet essay “Hansel and Gretel” (“Fact and Fiction”) Basil De Pinto pointed out the opera’s very real concerns with hunger and poverty {…}

News

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Launch 2019 Competition

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The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions has launched its 65th annual program. According to a press release, young opera singers from across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and for the first time, Mexico, will compete for $15,000 cash prizes and the opportunity to launch major operatic careers. Over 1,000 singers between the ages of 20 and 30 will participate {…}

News

The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Expand to Mexico

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The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions are adding a new country to its audition process. Executive director Melissa Wegner announced that Mexico will become part of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions firmament joining the United States and Canada. In a press statement, Wegner stated, “We are proud to include Mexico in the National Council Auditions. Our program now reflects {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Tanglewood 2018 Review: The Bernstein Centennial Celebration

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This review is for the gala performance on August 25, 2018. The date of Leonard Bernstein’s 100thbirthday, and in all my years of making yearly pilgrimages to Tanglewood, I have never seens the grounds, the Koussevitzky Music Shed, the parking lots so full. If the great lawn can be standing room only, it was that night. challenging. The celebration was {…}

News

Tanglewood’s Leonard Bernstein Centennial Gala to Broadcast on PBS

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Tanglewood has announced that its star-studded gala concert, celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centennial on August 25, 2018, will be recorded by Great Performances and broadcast on PBS, bringing this event to audiences in their homes throughout America, Europe, and Asia on December 28, 2018. The concert will be hosted by Audra McDonald and directed by James Darrah; among the names appearing {…}