Opera Festival Scotland has announced its 2022 slate. The season will open with an Opera Highlights concert presented by the Scottish Opera. Performance Date: Sept. 22, 2022 Next up will be a seminar entitled “Opera in Scotland before 1962,” which will feature Iain Fraser, Peter Fraser, and Stephen Fraser. Performance Date: Sept. 23, 2022 Julia Lagahuzere of Opera for Peace {…}
Vocal Arts DC has announced its 2022-23 season. The season opens with a recital featuring tenor Michael Spyres and pianist Mathieu Pordoy. The program will include music by Beethoven, Berlioz, and Liszt. Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2022 Rihab Chaieb and Brian Zeger will present music by Schumann, Ravel, Bizet, Aubert, Golijov, Ricketts, and songs from Chaieb’s Arabic heritage. Performance Date: {…}
The Washington National Cathedral and Cathedral Choral Society have announced their joint 2022-23 season. This is the first time that the two organizations are presenting a joint music program. For the purposes of this article our focus will be solely on vocal performances. The Cathedral Choral Society will join forces with The Atlanta Ballet for Berlioz’s “Roméo et Juliette.” Claudia {…}
The New York Choral Society has announced its 2022-23 season. The season opens with the Richard Tucker Foundation Gala. Performance Date: Nov. 13, 2022 Next up is “Ellington’s Sacred Concerts.” The showcase features a wide range of music including jazz, choral music, spiritual, gospel, blues, and dance. The showcase will feature a commissioned work by artist James Little. Performance Date: {…}
The Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella has unveiled its 2022 edition. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. The first showcase of the season will be a performance of Stradella’s final opera “Moro per Amore.” The work will star Silvia Frigato, Danilo Pastore, Margarita Slepakova, Eleonora Filipponi, Matteo Straffi, Federico Fiorio, and Masashi Tomosugi. {…}
The Japan Society in NYC has unveiled its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our sole focus will be on vocal and operatic performances. The season opens with “Yukio Mishima’s Hanjo” as created by Toshio Hosokawa. The reality-bending opera will be directed by Luca Veggetti and conducted by Neal Goren. The performance will feature an excerpt from the {…}
The Kaufman Music Center in New York has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances: VOCES8 perform Choral Dances: Wm. Byrd to V. Morrison. Performance Date: Oct. 13, 2022 VOCES8 will showcase “Underneath the Stars,” which includes music by Byrd, Britten, Gibbons, Smith, Schütz, Rheinberger, and Alfvén, among others. Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2022 Briana {…}
The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced the 2022-23 “Great Voices” Series. The series opens with a concert by Piotr Beczała featuring music by Verdi, Puccini, Giordano, and Mascagni. Marco Boemi conducts. Performance Date: Nov. 24, 2022 Diana Damrau performs a concert alongside Jérémie Rhorer featuring music by Mozart and Händel. Performance Date: Dec. 20, 2022 Regula Mühlemann sings music by Faure, {…}
The Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, Italy has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the vocal performances. Georg Friedrich Händel “Messiah” will be performed by Sandrine Piau, Sara Mingardo Levy Sekgapane, and Luca Tittoto. Enrico Onofri conducts. Performance Date: Dec. 7, 2022 Timothy Brock leads the New Year’s concert with vocalists {…}
The Boston Camerata has announced its 2022-23 Season. “The times we live in call out so many feelings,” says Camerata Artistic Director Anne Azéma. “You can experience them all across our different concert presentations.” The season, subtitled “Light and Shadow,” opens with a program of music for and around the great medieval cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. “The Notre Dame {…}
The Palau de la Música in Valencia, Spain has announced its 2022-23 season. The president Gloria Tello, director Vicent Ros, and Artistic Director Alexander Liebreich announced the program which will consist of 30 concerts at the sala Auditori de Les Arts and the Teatro Principal in València. Raquel Lojendio and Josep Ramon Olivé perform alongside Miguel Á. Gómez-Martínez in a {…}