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Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Tenor Iván Ayón-Rivas on his Breakout Year & ‘Macbeth’ at La Scala

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(Photo credit: Tatiana Mazzola) For Iván Ayón-Rivas, 2021 was a breakout party. Selected by OperaWire as one of the 10 rising stars of 2021, the Peruvian tenor also took home top honors at Operalia before finishing out the year with his opera debut at the Teatro alla Scala. That ascension to opera’s peak was years in the making. Ayón-Rivas began {…}
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Carmela Remigio to Receive the Premio Piccinni

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Carmela Remigio has been awarded the 40th Premio Piccinni. The Italian soprano will receive the award in a gala on Jan. 16, 2022, in Italy. The soprano joins a list of artists, who have received the award including Sylvano Bussotti, Franco Zeffirelli, Joan Sutherland, and Nicolai Ghiaurov.  Remigio has received the prestigious “Premio Abbiati” by the Associazione Critici Musicali Italiani {…}
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Arena di Verona Announces New Violetta for ‘La Traviata’

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The Arena di Verona has announced a new Violetta for its production of “La Traviata.” The Arena announced that Zuzana Marková will sing the role of Violetta on the Sept. 2 performance of Verdi’s masterpiece replacing Aida Garifullina, who was forced to cancel due to surgery. Marková has performed at the Royal Opera House, Opera Royal de Wallonie, Gran Teatre {…}
Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Reviving The San Cassiano – Paul Atkin Discusses His Plan to Rebuild The World’s First Public Opera House (Part 3)

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Rebuilding Venice’s San Cassiano theatre will be a formidable task in and of itself, yet behind the scenes there is a raft of other issues and initiatives which need considerable attention. In this third and final part of OperaWire’s interview, Paul Atkin, the man behind the project, discusses some of these concerns, including what it means to be a public {…}
News, Streaming

Lisette Oropesa & Xabier Anduaga Headline Bel Canto Gala

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On April 16, Lisette Oropesa and Xabier Anduaga will join Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for a Bel Canto concert. Sir Antonio Pappano will conduct the two stars in a program that will include music from Bellini’s “I Puritani” and “La Sonnambula” and Donizetti’s “La Fille du Regiment,” “Lucrezia Borgia,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Don Pasquale,” and “L’Elisir d’Amore.” The {…}
Special Features

Page to Opera Stage: How Verdi Reframes a True Story & Novel in ‘La Traviata’

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(Credit: Ken Howard ) “Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This week, the focus is Alexandre Dumas fils’ semi-autobiographic novel “La dame aux camelias” and Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic adaptation “La Traviata.” The {…}
Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Sergey Romanovsky & Enea Scala on ‘Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra,’ Bel Canto & Livestreams

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When La Monnaie was forced to postpone its planned “Bastarda” project, which would have featured the Tudor trilogy and Donizetti’s rarely performed “Il castello di Kenilworth,” the company had to opt for an alternative. The company decided to perform two rare works by Donizetti and Rossini; “La Favorita” and “Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra.” However, it would only be highlights of the {…}

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