SWR Symphonieorchester Announces New Principal Conductor & Artistic Director

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Stuttgart’s SWR Symphonieorchester has announced François-Xavier Roth as its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director. The conductor will take over the position during the 2025-26 season and will succeed Teodor Currentzis, who has held the position since 2018. Regarding his appointment, Roth said, “I feel very honored to accept the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the SWR Symphonieorchester {…}

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Q & A: Renée Fleming on the Making of ‘Cities that Sing: Paris’ IMAX Experience

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Renée Fleming continues to push the boundaries as an artist. She has been an influential opera singer, recitalist, and mentor, and has built one of the most significant discographies of her generation. Her voice has been featured in many films and she has even done some cross-over work in jazz and rock. Now the soprano brings her artistic vision to {…}

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Orchestra de l’Agora to Present ‘Enfers des Lumières’

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The Orchestra de l’Agora will present “Enfers des Lumières” on March 1 and 2, 2022. The showcase, which will feature music by Lully, Rameau and Gluck (and others), will be headlined by 10 solo artists from the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, under the direction of Nicolas Ellis. The artists featured include tenor Marc-Antoine Brûle, soprano Vanessa Croome, soprano {…}

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Peter Mattei, Freddie De Tommaso, Angela Meade & Ekaterina Semenchuk Headline Verbier Festival’s 2022 Season

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The Verbier Festival has announced its 2022 season, featuring operas and several concerts. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on vocal works. Operas Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” kicks off the festival with Olga Peretyatko as Donna Anna, Magdalena Kožená as Donna Elvira, Bogdan Volkov as Don Ottavio, Mikhail Petrenko as Leporello, Alexandros Stavrakakis as Il Commendatore, Julien {…}

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Tenor Sungho Kim Announced as Winner of Verbier Festival Academy’s Prix Yves Paternot

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After closing out the 28th edition of the Verbier Festival on Aug. 1, 2021, with a stirring performance as Rodolfo in Puccini’s “La bohème,” 31-year-old Korean tenor, Sungho Kim, was awarded the Verbier Festival Academy’s highest honor, the Prix Yves Paternot. The recognition comes with a monetary prize of CHF 10,000, an invitation to return to the Festival, and eligibility {…}

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Verbier Festival Cancels Festival Orchestra Concerts & Announces Program Changes

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The Verbier Festival has announced programming changes following a COVID-19 outbreak among members of the Festival Orchestra. In a press release, the Festival noted that it was forced to cancel all Verbier Festival Orchestra concerts and replace it with the Verbier Chamber Orchestra. “The positive COVID-19 cases were immediately identified and contained to the VFO, with a period of isolation {…}

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Composer Profile: Louise Bertin, Composer of ‘La Esmeralda’

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Louise Angelique Bertin was born in Les Roches, France in 1805 and embarked on a career as an opera composer in nineteenth-century Paris. Her work was closely tied to composer Hector Berlioz and author Victor Hugo. She is best remembered as the composer of “La Esmeralda,” an opera based on Hugo’s famous novel “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.” Though Hugo, one {…}

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Rihab Chaieb, Elizabeth Polese Headline Orchestre Classique de Montréal’s ‘Messiah’

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The Orchestre Classique de Montréal has announced that it will present a special online performance of Handel’s “Messiah.” The event will start streaming on Dec. 8, 2020 and will be available for repeat viewings through Dec. 22. The showcase will feature soprano Elizabeth Polese, mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, tenor Marcel d’Entremont, and baritone Hugo Laporte, under the musical direction of Boris Brott. Les Rugissants will also {…}

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Obituary: Paula Goodman Wilder Dies

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Soprano Paula Goodman Wilder has passed a way. “November 1, Paula passed away,” Her husband Alain Gaubert announced in a statement. “She left very slowly, without opening her eyes, just stopping breathing, with a beautiful calm face. All of you who knew her know what we have lost: passionate about paleontology, IT expert, fierce, poet, journalist, photographer, wonderful singer, speaking {…}

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SWR Symphonieorchester Announces New Principal Conductor & Artistic Director

Q & A: Renée Fleming on the Making of ‘Cities that Sing: Paris’ IMAX Experience

Orchestra de l’Agora to Present ‘Enfers des Lumières’

Peter Mattei, Freddie De Tommaso, Angela Meade & Ekaterina Semenchuk Headline Verbier Festival’s 2022 Season

Tenor Sungho Kim Announced as Winner of Verbier Festival Academy’s Prix Yves Paternot

Verbier Festival Cancels Festival Orchestra Concerts & Announces Program Changes

Composer Profile: Louise Bertin, Composer of ‘La Esmeralda’

Rihab Chaieb, Elizabeth Polese Headline Orchestre Classique de Montréal’s ‘Messiah’

Obituary: Paula Goodman Wilder Dies