Alfred Walker, Gabriella Reyes, Anna Netrebko & Adam Plachetka Headline Palm Beach Opera’s 2025 Season

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(Photo credit: Suzanne Vinnik) Palm Beach Opera has announced its 2025 season. The season opens with Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette,” under the baton of Palm Beach Opera’s Ari Rifkin Music Director, David Stern. The title roles will be shared across performances. Friday/Sunday Long Long performs Romé alongside Amina Edris as Juliette. Eric Taylor and Lydia Grindatto will each make their {…}

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Des Moines Metro Opera Extends Music Directors, Announces Major Partnerships

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In addition to announcing its 2025 season, Des Moines Metro Opera announced some major contract extensions and partnerships. First up, the organization extended Music Director and Principal Conductor David Neely through 2028. “David has served as the Marshall and Judy Flapan Music Director and Principal Conductor since 2012. In this role he has overseen and built one of the finest {…}

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Czech Center New York to Present ‘Czech Prima Donnas’ at the Metropolitan Opera

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The Czech Center New York in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera and the Czech National Museum in Prague is preparing an exhibition about Czech female opera singers. The exhibition will showcase singers whose careers brought them onto the Met stage. Some of the singers starred in the Met’s first productions of major Czech operas. Among them are Emmy Destinn who {…}

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Sir Bryn Terfel to Make Mexican Debut

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Sir Bryn Terfel is set to perform in Mexico for the first time on March 21, 2024. La Secretaría de Cultura, el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), and la Fundación INBAL in collaboration with the Nacional de Ópera and Elisa Wagner/ICP will present the acclaimed bass-baritone. The program will include arias from “Die Walkure,” and “Die Meistersinger {…}

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Karen Slack to Perform the Poems of Langston Hughes in Philadelphia

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(Photo credit: Kia Caldwell Photography) Soprano Karen Slack will present “To Sit and Dream,” a concert comprised of the poems of Langston Hughes on March 17 in Philadelphia. In partnership with the Wharton-Wesley Faith Ensemble and Philadelphia soprano Slack will give a program of music by Black composers centered on four choral settings of Hughes’ poetry. Composers included on the {…}

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Deutsche Grammophon to Release World Premiere Recording of ‘Émigré’ in 2024

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Deutsche Grammophon is set to record the world premiere of Aaron Zigman and Mark Campbell’s “Émigré.” The 90-minute oratorio will have its world premiere on Nov. 17, 2023 at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall before heading to the U.S. for a performance at David Geffen Hall in New York City on Feb. 29, 2024. The two performances will feature Ben {…}

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PBS to Broadcast ‘J’Nai Bridges Unamplified’

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(Credit: Suzanne Vinnik) PBS is set to air the new documentary “J’Nai Bridges Unamplified.” The short film features opera star J’Nai Bridges and will air on March 24, as part of season two of In the Making, on PBS. Audra McDonald will host the broadcast special. Following the broadcast, the film will be available to stream for free on PBS.org {…}

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Rolando Villazón Headlines Metropolitan Opera’s ‘The Magic Flute’

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The Metropolitan Opera is set to celebrate the holiday season with its family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” for nine performances. The opera, which opened on Dec. 10, 2021, is set to run until Jan. 5, 2022. The English-language adaptation of the classic fairy tale, performed in a 115-minute abridged version is directed by Julie Taymor. The production will {…}

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Diana Damrau, Denyce Graves, Isabel Leonard, Terrence Blanchard, Morris Robinson Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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This week climaxes in World Opera Day on Oct. 25. So in leading up to that momentous celebration (which will feature half of the entries on this list), our recommendations will spotlight diversity in the opera world, offering up audiences a chance to check out works by and featuring BIPOC composers and performers as well as unique performance experiences that {…}

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Alfred Walker, Gabriella Reyes, Anna Netrebko & Adam Plachetka Headline Palm Beach Opera’s 2025 Season

Des Moines Metro Opera Extends Music Directors, Announces Major Partnerships

Czech Center New York to Present ‘Czech Prima Donnas’ at the Metropolitan Opera

Sir Bryn Terfel to Make Mexican Debut

Karen Slack to Perform the Poems of Langston Hughes in Philadelphia

Deutsche Grammophon to Release World Premiere Recording of ‘Émigré’ in 2024

PBS to Broadcast ‘J’Nai Bridges Unamplified’

Rolando Villazón Headlines Metropolitan Opera’s ‘The Magic Flute’

Diana Damrau, Denyce Graves, Isabel Leonard, Terrence Blanchard, Morris Robinson Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week