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CortinAteatro to Present ‘The Merry Widow’

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CortinAteatro in collaboration with Cortina d’Ampezzo will present Lehàr’s “The Merry Widow.” The operetta will be performed on August 17 at the Alexander Girardi Hall in Cortina d’Ampezzo in a new translation by Corrado Abbati. The operetta will star baritone Fabrizio Macciantelli, soprano Mariska Bordoni, and tenor Davide Zaccherini while Alberto Orlandi will conduct the Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. The evening {…}

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BBC Philharmonic Announces New Principal Guest Conductor

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(Credit: Marco Borggreve) German conductor Anja Bihlmaier has been named Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra effective September 2024. In her new role, she will work closely with BBC Philharmonic’s Director Adam Szabo to plan and deliver concerts as well as collaborative projects, recordings, and broadcasts for audiences in and around Manchester, as well as on BBC Radio {…}

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Sir Thomas Allen Announces His Retirement From the Stage

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Sir Thomas Allen has announced that he is retiring from the stage. According to reports, AD Stephen Langridge walked out on stage at the final performance of “The Merry Widow” on July 28, 2024, and said that Sir Thomas Allen was “hanging up his dancing shoes.” Slippeddisc reported that Alastair Macaulay said, “Tonight, the British baritone Thomas Allen, aged seventy-nine, {…}

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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}

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Opera Australia 2024 Review: Hamlet

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(Credit: Keith Saunders) It was commissioned by and premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2017. Then new cities followed suit every year (apart from the horrid COVID-infected era): Adelaide Festival (2018), a new production in Cologne, Germany (2019), the massive success at the Metropolitan Opera of New York (2022) and the Bavarian State Opera in München (2023). Finally, after seven {…}

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Welsh National Opera Announces New General Directors & CEOs

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The Welsh National Opera has announced that Adele Thomas and Sarah Crabtree will be jointly taking on the role of General Director and CEO starting this coming January. Thomas has established herself as a major opera director who has led productions at Glyndebourne, Opernhaus Zürich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the London Handel Festival, and Northern Ireland Opera. Her {…}

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Louise Alder Joins MWA for General Management

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Soprano Louise Alder has joined MWA for general management. Alder is currently starring as Cleopatra in David McVicar’s iconic production of “Giulio Cesare” at Glyndebourne Festival. She is well-known for having performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival, Bayerische Staatsoper, Carnegie Hall, and the Wigmore Hall, where she held a widely acclaimed artistic residency in 2024. She {…}