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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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Festival Aix-en-Provence 2025 Review: La Calisto

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(Photo: Monika Rittershaus) By the middle of the second act, a third of the audience had already gone home. They were not necessarily bored—some complained that the seats were too harsh on their spines; others that, because the opera started so late, they were unwilling to return home well after midnight. The fact is, this production of “La Calisto” did {…}
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Teatro alla Scala 2024-25 Review: Siegfried

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(Photo Credit: Brescia e Amisano ©) This “Siegfried”… a popular musical in myth? Given the audience’s warmly animated reactions, as one witnessed upon attending various performances of its run, it would appear so. The lively, evocative melodic themes in this, the third of four operas of “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” are sustained by all the symbolic ingredients of a fairy {…}
IndieOpera

Carla Lucero & Carson Gilmore Collaborate on Aria Film

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Composer Carla Lucero has partnered with filmmaker Carson Gilmore to bring an aria from her opera “Juana” to film. The project emerged from the aria “Sin vos” from “Juana” being featured on Navona Records’ “Tapestry of Voices,” Vol. 2. The two creators teamed together to create a film version of the aria that ultimately would be released in tandem with {…}
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International Händel Festival Göttingen 2025 Review: Solomon

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(Photo: Alciro Theodoro Da Silva) This year’s International Händel Festival in Göttingen got under way with a splendid concert performance of the composer’s 1748 oratorio “Solomon,” to a libretto based on accounts from the Old Testament Books of Kings, Chronicles and Song of Solomon with additional material from Josephus, although the name of the librettist is unknown. Unlike a number {…}
Season Announcement

Karen Slack, Sarah Tucker, & Jessica Vosk Among Performers in Newport Classical Music Festival 2025

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The Newport Classical Music Festival announces its 2025 season. This article only features classical voice performances. “Opera Night: An American Tapestry” features sopranos Sarah Tucker and Melissa Joseph, mezzo-soprano Renée Rapier, tenor Dane Suarez, and bass Michael Colman, with pianist and narrator Charlie Kim. The program features English arias from works such as “Porgy and Bess,” “The Ballad of Baby {…}
DVD and CD Releases, News

Benjamin Appl, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotruba & Joanna Klisowska Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, two albums celebrating Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau will be released. There is also a legendary recording from teh Wiener Staatsoper which will be released. Audiences can also check out several recordings featuring unknown composers. Chant in a Wail Navona releases composer and tenor {…}
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Berlin Philharmonic 2025 Review: Das Lied von der Erde

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  Mahler creates worlds. Each brings a musical feast. “Das Lied von der Erde” (The Song of the Earth), performed at the Berlin Philharmonic under Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo brought us another one. The “superstitious” Mahler did not want to label this work the Ninth, since both Beethoven and Schubert died after writing theirs, so he called it a symphony {…}
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Brooklyn Youth Chorus 2025 Review: Port(al)

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(Photos: Toby Tenenbaum) The world premiere of Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ “Port(al),” co-created by Chorus founder and artistic director Dianne Berkun Menaker; co-composer Paola Prestini; co-composer and co-librettist Jad Abumrad; director, designer, co-librettist, and co-choreographer Jessica Grindstaff; and co-choreographer Ogemdi Ude, debuted on May 1, 2025 at Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Agger Fish Building. “Port(al)” is a site-specific work for mixed chorus and electronics, telling {…}

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