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When to Catch Metropolitan Opera 2017-18 Season Announcement and Everything We Know So Far

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The Metropolitan Opera announces its 2017-18 season on Feb. 15 at 12 p.m. EST. The company announced on Instagram that the upcoming season would feature 5 new productions, 2 Met Opera premieres, 19 revivals, and one special series of performances. While the majority of the season has been kept under wraps, there are already many known facts. Last summer the Met {…}
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Everything You Need To Know About Minnesota Opera’s 2017-18 Season

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The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2017-18 season, a celebration for the company’s 55th anniversary. The season opens with Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” on Oct. 7 and runs through the 15. It will be followed in November with a new production of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The opera will premier on Nov. 11 and will run through the 19. The 2018 {…}
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5 Exciting Singers You Cannot Miss At The 2017-18 Lyric Opera Of Chicago Season

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The Lyric Opera of Chicago announced its 2017-18 Season last week, which included a number of new productions and some of the most exciting singers in the industry. The following is a list of the stars OperaWire suggests audiences should not miss next season. Ben Bernheim  Bernheim is easily becoming one of the fastest rising stars in the opera world {…}
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On This Day: 5 Reasons Renée Fleming Is An Inspiration

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Renée Fleming is one of the most iconic sopranos of our time as she has broken the mold for what it means to be an operatic diva. On February 14, Fleming celebrates her 58th birthday and OperaWire celebrates it by taking a look at what makes Fleming such an inspiration. Intelligence and Depth  Every time Renée Fleming approaches a role, {…}
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Breaking News: Pretty Yende Replaces Diana Damrau in ‘I Puritani;’ Alvarez Cancels Another ‘Carmen’ Performance

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Two major cancellations were announced on Monday at the Metropolitan Opera. First it was announced that Diana Damrau would not partake in the second performance of “I Puritani” on Tuesday, Feb. 14 and then it was revealed tenor Marcelo Alvarez would also withhold from performing the performance of “Carmen” on Feb. 15. Pretty Yende, coming off a thrilling running of {…}
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Artist Of The Week: Joyce DiDonato Conquers Rossini’s ‘Semiramide’

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For years Joyce DiDonato has been a master in the Bel Canto repertoire singing Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Her vocal flexibility and nuance has brought new musical insights to some of this neglected repertoire, her approach often innovative. This week DiDonato took on the role of Rossini’s “Semiramide” for the first time at the Bayerische Staatsoper and after listening to the premiere {…}
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Grammy 2017 Winners: Patricia Racette, Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostridge and Dorothea Röschmann Among Winners

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The 2017 Grammy awards have been handed out with many surprises in the Classical categories. Pentatone Music went home with two Grammys for Corigliano’s “The Ghosts Of Versailles.”  The categories included Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album. Among the winners in the categories for engineering were Mark Donahue, Fred Vogler & David L Williams. The performers who won for Best Opera Recording {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Review 2016-17 – I Puritani: Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena & Co. Deliver Golden Age Singing

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This review is for the performance on Feb. 11, 2017.  What happens when the Metropolitan Opera casts four superstars into Bellini’s final opera? The answer is golden age singing. For years “I Puritani” has been a vehicle at the Metropolitan Opera to promote the diva and sometimes has made casting uneven with little attention paid to who can sing the incredibly {…}
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Everything You Need to Know About the Welsh National Opera’s 2017-18 Season

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The Welsh National Opera announced its 2017-18 season, a schedule that features works accompanying certain themes and concepts. Fall 2018 – Russian Revolution The autumn season will kick off with three Russian-themed works – “Eugene Onegin,” “Khovanshchina” and Janácek’s “From The House of the Dead,” which is based on Dostoevsky’s book. This segment intents to honor the centenary of the {…}

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