Baritone Peter Brathwaite Receives Honorary Doctorate in Music from Newcastle University

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Newcastle University has made British baritone Peter Brathwaite an Honorary Doctor of Music. Brathwaite is an alumnus, having studied Fine Arts and Philosophy at the institution. Besides his singing career, the polymath vocalist is a visual artist, BBC broadcaster, and writer. Brathwaite’s 2022-23 opera engagements included appearances at Philharmonie de Paris (debut) as Stubb in “The Outcast” and Melot in {…}

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Royal Opera House Announces Participants of Jette Parker Programme 2023-24

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The Royal Opera House has announced the participants for its 2023-24 Jette Parker Artist Programme. Among those joining in the fall of 2023 are sopranos Isabela Díaz and Valentina Puscas, baritone Grisha Martirosyan, mezzo-soprano Veena Akama-Makia, bass Jamie Woollard, and tenor Ryan Vaughan Davies. Díaz has appeared at the Teatro Colón, Teatro Argentino de la Plata, and the Municipal Theatre {…}

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Cambridge Summer Music Appoints New Festival Director

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Cambridge Summer Music has appointed tenor Ben Johnson as the new Festival Director. In a press release, the festival said, that the Trustees of Cambridge Summer Music selected Johson and said, “Ben will bring a unique combination of an outstanding performance career with the experience of founding and managing his own music festival. Ben will take his position immediately.” Henry {…}

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Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm Expels Valery Gergiev

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The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm has expelled Valery Gergiev from its membership. The Academy noted in a press release, “at the meeting of the Royal Musical Academy on October 10, the decision was made to exclude the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev as a foreign member. He was excluded on the basis of his unwillingness to take a stand {…}

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Q & A: Mark Adamo on ‘Little Women,’ His Major Influences & Interests Outside Music

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(Photo: Daniel Welch) Italian/American composer and librettist Mark Adamo has just enjoyed the UK premiere of his opera, “Little Women” at Opera Holland Park. Although written in 1998, it has taken 24 years to be performed on British soil and was warmly received throughout. At the time of its composition, Adamo noted: “I recognized that ‘Little Women’ itself solves certain {…}

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Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires Announces New Music Director

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The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires has appointed Jan Latham-Koenig as its Music Director. Latham-Koenig is the founding Artistic Director of the Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra and has been Chief Conductor of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and started his career as a pianist. He has conducted at the Wiener {…}

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Baritone James Atkinson Wins Royal Over-Seas League 2022 Solo Singer Prize

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The Royal Over-Seas League has announced baritone James Atkinson as ROSL’s 2022 Solo Singer Prize, securing the second section win in the ROSL Annual Music Competition. Atkinson’s winning performance included Lieder, art song, and opera by Finzi, Faure, Schubert, and Bellini. The baritone bested three other singers in the final, taking home the £5,000 prize and securing the second of {…}

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College-Conservatory of Music Appoints Heldentenor Stuart Skelton as Chair in Opera

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(Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke) UC College-Conservatory of Music has announced the appointment of heldentenor Stuart Skelton as its new J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera. Skelton will replace Marie-France Lefebvre in his new position. Skelton is regarded as one of today’s leading heldentenors who has appeared at many of the world’s most celebrated opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera House, {…}

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Isabel Leonard Joins Voice Faculty of Manhattan School of Music

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(Credit: Rebecca Fay) Opera star Isabel Leonard is joining the Manhattan School of Music’s faculty. Leonard, who has a prominent international career that has taken her to such stages as the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera, The Dallas Opera, Glyndebourne, Dutch National Opera, Royal Opera House, and Vienna State Opera, among many others, is a recipient of an honorary doctorate {…}

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Baritone Peter Brathwaite Receives Honorary Doctorate in Music from Newcastle University

Royal Opera House Announces Participants of Jette Parker Programme 2023-24

Cambridge Summer Music Appoints New Festival Director

Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm Expels Valery Gergiev

Q & A: Mark Adamo on ‘Little Women,’ His Major Influences & Interests Outside Music

Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires Announces New Music Director

Baritone James Atkinson Wins Royal Over-Seas League 2022 Solo Singer Prize

College-Conservatory of Music Appoints Heldentenor Stuart Skelton as Chair in Opera

Isabel Leonard Joins Voice Faculty of Manhattan School of Music