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Catalina Cuervo to Host ‘Latin Heat: Sounds of my Land’

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The Long Beach Opera is hosting “Latin Heat: Sounds of my Land.” The panel, which will discuss Hispanic Classical Music, will be hosted by Colombian soprano Catalina Cuervo. Soprano Elizabeth Caballero, conductor Jorge Parodi, director José María Condemi, baritone and professor Ricardo Herrera will head the discussion. Andrea Catán, arts administrator, harpist, and promoter of Daniel Catán’s music, will also {…}

IndieOpera

Eurasia Festival Set to Present Scenes From ‘Don Giovanni’ This March

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The Eurasia Festival’s Opera Studio is set to shift their focus on scenes and ensembles from Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni” throughout February and March. The Eurasia Festival, which is led by Aza Sydykov and Marc Verzatt at the Eurasia Cultural Center in Manhattan, will take place on Feb. 29, March 7, 14, and 21, culminating in a performance {…}

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Eurasia Festival To Present ‘Azatt Sessions’

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Marc Verzatt and Aza Sydykov are set to join forces to create the “Azatt Sessions,” a regular series of masterclasses and workshops for singers presented by the Eurasia Festival in New York City. Verzatt, a renowned stage director, will work with students on dramatic interpretation and stage comportment while Sydykov, a conductor and pianist, will focus on musical interpretation as {…}

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Gianluca Terranova Replaces Jinxu Xiahou In Vienna’s ‘La Bohème’

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(Credit: Eduardo Manna) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its upcoming performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company announced that Jinxu Xiahou canceled the Oct. 3 performance due to an injury. As a result, Gianluca Terranova will perform the role of Rodolfo.  Terranova has appeared at the Wiener Staatsoper, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, the Frankfurt Opera, the {…}

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Obituary: Ravinia Festival’s General Manager Marcus L. Overton Passes Away At 75

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Marcus L. Overton passed away on June 9, 2019 at the age of 75. The former production stage manager at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the general manager for the Ravinia Festival, succumbed to a long battle with kidney failure. A 54-year veteran in the world of performing arts management, he took on a wide range of art forms {…}

Pride Month, Special Features

Pride Month 2019: 13 Contemporary Composers & Librettists Who Are Out & Proud

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It’s Pride Month, so to celebrate we return to the series we began two years. This time we celebrate some of the great composers and librettists of today who have made a great impact in the opera world and whose works have given a voice to the voiceless. Jake Heggie Heggie is one of the most prolific composers of the {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Bucking The Trend – Karen Slack On Her Unexpected Path & Singing Modern Works

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Every singer’s path is laden with expectations. Often, these are not established by the artist themselves, but by the world around them. Karen Slack knows all about having to manage those expectations. She  made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2005 and was singing the major Verdi roles at the start of her career. But the soprano in a recent interview {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Comunale Luciano Pavarotti 2019 Review: Serse

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Serse’s short aria, “Ombra mai fu,” in which he passionately addresses a plane tree, may be the most famous aria from Handel’s opera “Serse,” but is it the most significant moment in the work? Certainly, an argument could be made for it being the case, as it establishes from the outset Seres’s strong, but superficial emotional response to the world {…}