Ana María Martínez, Jonathan Tetelman, Renée Fleming & Quinn Kelsey Lead LA Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The LA Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the entire season. Mainstage Karah Son sings the title role in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Jonathan Tetelman, Hyona Kim, and Michael Sumuel also starring. James Conlon conducts the production by Mario Gas. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 13 2024 Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” returns for the first time {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Present Four Contemporary Operas in 2024-25 Seasons

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to present four contemporary operas during the 2024-25 season. In a new article by The New York Times, the company revealed that it will present “Grounded” about the toll of drone warfare by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant to open the season in September. The season will also see John Adams’ latest opera “Antony and {…}

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Best of 2023: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

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And we’re back. And as has become the tradition here at OperaWire, we have asked our writers to select their choices for the opera performances that truly marveled them in 2023. So without further ado, here are our writers’ picks. Enjoy! Joao Copertino This year, in my opinion, the best performance was Aix-en-Provence’s “Picture a Day Like This,” a world premiere {…}

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Trekking Through American Opera (Part One)

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(Photo Credit: Scott Suchman) Throughout this new series, we will be looking at the history of American opera beginning in the 2000s to the present through a revisit of certain iconic works of the decade and OperaWire’s coverage of them throughout the 21st century. In this first part, we will look at the development of American opera during the 2000s, {…}

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A Stroll Through The Many Genres of Opera (Part Two)

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Around the world, opera has very different forms. Although the artform has touched almost every continent on the planet, that does not mean that it looks the same. Whether that means an Italian opera that is translated into a different language, or a domestic artform resembling opera that evolved endogenously, the fabric of opera is multi-dimensional! In Part One of {…}

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Haydée Dabusti & Luciana Bueno to Present ‘Homenaje a María Callas’

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Soprano Haydée Dabusti and mezzo-soprano Luciana Bueno will perform an “Homenaje a María Callas” on Nov. 9, 2023 at the CorpArtes Foundation Theatre in Santiago, Chile. The showcase, which will also feature the Philodramatic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shiticov, will include music by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Giordano, Bellini, and Ponchielli. The showcase kicks off at 8 p.m. local time. Dabusti {…}

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Lisa Marie Rogali, River Guard, & Rolfe Dauz Named Detroit Opera 2023-24 Resident Artists

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Detroit Opera has announced the newly selected singers to train in the company’s Resident Artist Program during the 2023–24 season. Those chosen are mezzo-soprano Lisa Marie Rogali, tenor River Guard, and baritone Rolfe Dauz. These three were selected from more than 850 international artists who applied to the program. The Resident Artists have committed to an intensive program while living {…}

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Theatro Municipal São Paulo Unveils 2023 Season

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(Photo: Masataka Suemitsu) The Theatro Municipal in São Paulo, Brazil has unveiled its 2023 season. First up will be a production of “Il Guarany” this May The opera will be conducted by Roberto Minczuk and directed by Ailton Krenak and stars Atalla Ayan, Nadine Koutcher, Rodrigo Esteves in the first cast, with Enrique Bravo, Débora Faustino, and David Marcondes appearing on {…}

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Metropolitan Opera to Present 17 Contemporary Works in Next Five Seasons

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to present 17 company premieres of contemporary works over the next five seasons. In a recent interview with Peter Gelb and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the two said that the company was committed to bringing new works to the public and finding the right balance between the classics and the new operas. The article noted that the {…}

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Ana María Martínez, Jonathan Tetelman, Renée Fleming & Quinn Kelsey Lead LA Opera’s 2024-25 Season

Metropolitan Opera to Present Four Contemporary Operas in 2024-25 Seasons

Best of 2023: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year

Trekking Through American Opera (Part One)

A Stroll Through The Many Genres of Opera (Part Two)

Haydée Dabusti & Luciana Bueno to Present ‘Homenaje a María Callas’

Lisa Marie Rogali, River Guard, & Rolfe Dauz Named Detroit Opera 2023-24 Resident Artists

Theatro Municipal São Paulo Unveils 2023 Season

Metropolitan Opera to Present 17 Contemporary Works in Next Five Seasons