Q & A: Tenor Paul Appleby on Contemporary Operas & Run AMOC* Festival, Politics in the Arts, & His 2025-26 Slate

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(Photo Credit : Jonathan-Tichler) “La Damnation de Faust.” “La Rondine.” “Die Schöpfung.” “In a Grove.” “St. Matthew Passion.” “Antony and Cleopatra.” These are just a few of the many projects that tenor Paul Appleby took on this past season. What stands out in this list is how wide-ranging it is in its artistic exploration. There are several contemporary works, sacred {…}

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Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music Announces 2024 Lineup

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(Photo credit: Shayne Gray) The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has announced its 2024 programming. This article includes vocal performances only. The 62nd season kicks off with Cristian Măcelaru leading the world premiere of Karim Al-Zand’s “Al Hakawati,” an opera in progress –beginning at Cabrillo Festival and then move throughout the world. Soprano Miriam Khalil serves as soloist. Also on this {…}

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PROTOTYPE Adds Digital Offerings to 2024 Season

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PROTOTYPE: Opera | Theatre | Now has announced the addition of three new digital offerings to the 2024 festival lineup. The festival will showcase three new digital streaming options including composer Shodekeh Talifero’s “Vodalities: Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice,” a three movement piece, created to show the different modalities of the vocal arts. Catapult Opera’s commissioned digital work, “Swann,” by {…}

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PROTOTYPE: OPERA / THEATRE / NOW Announces Cast & Production News for 2024

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The PROTOTYPE: OPERA / THEATRE / NOW has announced updates for its 2024 festival. First up, the company revealed the featured performers. Heather Christian, Terry Dame, Viva DeConcini, Melanie Hsu, Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh, Maya Sharpe, with Rima Fand, Jessica Lurie, Divya Maus, Kait Wamer, joined by Raquel Cion, Marisa Clementi, Ciera Cope, Nadine Daniels, Sandra Gamer, Audrey Hayes, Mercedes Hesselroth, Frances {…}

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PROTOTYPE Unveils Programming 2024 Edition

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The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced its 2024 season, the 11th in the company’s history. Kicking things off will be the world premiere of Heather Christian’s “Terce.” The “radical rethinking of a monastic 9 am mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the ‘Holy Spirit’ through the lens of the Divine Feminine” features a 30-person choir, among others. Kennan {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Artistic Director Matthias Lošek On Contemporary Opera And The Haydn Foundation’s Forthcoming Opera Festival

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Photo: Andrea Macchia Situated within easy reach of the Dolomites and the Alps lies the small Tyrolean city of Bolzano. Formally part of the Austrian Empire, it was ceded to Italy at the end of World War I, and despite Mussolini’s subsequent attempt to Italianize the town, it still retains much of its Austrian heritage, with a quarter of the {…}

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New York Opera Festival Announces 2021 Streaming Slate

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*** Written in collaboration with Francisco Salazar.*** The New York Opera Festival has announced its 2021 lineup, which will take place virtually in light of continued concerns over COVID-19. The New York Opera Fest will present a Kick-Off Event and NYOA Service Awards. The virtual event will feature both live and pre-recorded performances from New York City’s opera companies. In {…}

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Opera Philadelphia to Premiere ‘Breaking the Waves’ on Digital Festival O

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(Credit: Opera Philadelphia / Nicholas Korkos) Opera Philadelphia has announced the broadcast premiere of the award-winning work, “Breaking the Waves,” on May 29, 2020, as part of the company’s Digital Festival O. The opera, which made its world premiere in 2016, adapts Lars von Trier’s 1996 film of the same name. Missy Mazzoli composed the work with a libretto by {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Festival della Valle D’Itria 2018 Review: Il Trionfo dell’Onore

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At the turn of the 18th century, Naples was an important centre for innovation and performance in the opera world. In 1706, Michelangelo Faggioli premiered his opera “La Cilla,” the first of a new form of comedy opera, sung in the Neapolitan dialect, based around a light-hearted plot, focused upon domestic and family affairs, which reflected the bourgeoise values of {…}

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