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Sonya Yoncheva, Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, Benjamin Appl, Thomas Hampson & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Verbier Festival’s 2025 Season

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The Verbier Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Verbier Festival Orchestra and Barbara Hannigan perform works by Berlioz, Haydn, Copland, Rodgers, and Bill Elliot. Performance Date: July 17, 2025 Thomas Hampson and Ksenija Sidorova perform works by Schubert and Weill. Performance Date: July 20, 2025 The VF Academy Atelier Lyrique and {…}

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Q & A: Lise Lindstrom discusses Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, & Life

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(Credit: Rosie Hardy) Lise Lindstrom recently took time to converse with Benjamin Torbert for OperaWire. Lindstrom sings all three Brünnhildes in “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried,” and “Götterdämmerung” in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s very lightly staged concert presentation of Wagner’s “Der Ring Des Nibelungen,” on 13-20 October 2024. She already appeared with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for two performances of “Walküre” in {…}

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Minnesota Orchestra Appoints Interim CEO

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Brent Assink has been named interim CEO and President of The Minnesota Orchestra. Assink will take over Michelle Miller Burns, who is leaving in September to lead the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Burns has been president and CEO of Minnesota’s largest performing arts organization since 2018. Assink will split his time between Minnesota and California, where he lives. In a statement, {…}

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Chanticleer Announces 2024-25 Season

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(Photo credit: Stephen K Mack) Multiple Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has released the details of its 2024-25 season. Music director Tim Keeler leads the coast-to-coast tour, which opens in San Francisco, CA. Other stops include Birmingham, MI,Dallas, TX, Savannah, GA, Portland, OR, Washington, DC, and New York, NY, among many others. “Without a Song” features Medieval and Renaissance motets {…}

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Fabio Luisi Awarded Premio del Belcanto ‘Rodolfo Celletti’

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The Fondazione Paolo Grassi and the 50° Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca have announced that Fabio Luisi will be awarded the 2024 Premio del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti.” The award will be given to the conductor following the August 2 performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” The award will be given to Luisi “for the appreciated artistic merits of a luminous {…}

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FringeArts Announces Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2024

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FringeArts has announced the lineup for the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. For the purposes of this article only opera performances are included . Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s “The Listeners” makes American premiere with Nicole Heaston and Kevin Burdette.  This premiere is co-presented with Opera Philadelphia. Performance Dates: September 25-29, 2024 “We Have Gone As Far As We Can Together” {…}