Central City Opera in Colorado has announced its 2022 season which will feature three productions and will run from July 2, 2022 through July 31, 2022. The season opens with the 2005 Broadway show “The Light in the Piazza” by Adam Guettel. The show sees strong-willed Southern housewife Margaret Johnson and her charming daughter Clara vacationing in Italy in the {…}
The Cincinnati Opera has announced the 2022 Summer Festival which will include two world premieres and new-to-Cincinnati productions. The season will open with Puccini’s “La Bohème” starring Talise Trevigne, Ji-Min Park, Raven McMillon, Rodion Pogossov, André Courville, and Ethan Vincent. Mark Gibson, director of orchestral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, will conduct. Performance Dates: June 18-25, {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced its 2022 season which will celebrate the organization’s 99th year. The season will feature 45 evenings with five opera productions and three special events taking place between June 17 and Sept. 4. The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen” the legendary production which was in fact the 1995 Arena debut of Franco Zeffirelli. Performance Dates: {…}
The 2022 Schubertiade in Austria has announced its program featuring numerous Schubert works and international soloists. For this article, we are looking at the vocal performances. Hohenems Christoph Prégardien and Julius Drake perform lieder by Schubert and Schumann. Performance Date: April 30, 2022 Tara Erraught and James Baillieu perform Schubert’s “Die junge Nonne,” “Nacht und Träume,” “Die Sterne, and “Ave {…}
Opera Holland Park in the U.K. has announced its 2022 season. The company announced that it will open on May 31, 2022 with new productions of “Eugene Onegin” and “Carmen” before presenting the UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s 1998 opera, “Little Women,” adapted from Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. The fourth production of the season will be a double bill {…}
Spain’s Ópera de las Palmas has announced its 2022 season featuring five productions. The season opens with Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” starring María José Siri, Bryan Hymel, and Joungjun Park. Performance Dates: Feb. 22-26, 2022 Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” is set to star Paolo Fanale, Simón Orfila, and Claudia Pavone with Ramón Tebar conducting. Performance Dates: March 22-26, 2022 Francesco Ivan Ciampa {…}
Italy’s Teatro Verdi Trieste has announced its 2022 season featuring modern and classic works and only Italian operas. The season opens with Chiara Muti’s production of Nicola Piovani’s “Amorosa presenza.” The opera, which will be conducted by the composer, will star Maria Rita Combattelli, Giusepe Tommaso, Aliosa Aisemberg, William Hernandez, and Adriano Gramigni. Performance Dates: Jan. 21-29, 2022 María José {…}
Opera Tampa has announced its 2022 season featuring three mainstage productions. The company will also team up with the Florida Orchestra for the very first time. The company will return to the Starz Center and will open Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” The production will be Opera Tampa’s premiere of the famous work. Performance Dates: Feb. 11 & 13, 2022 {…}
The Osterfestspiele Salzburg has announced its 2022 season which will return to April. At the heart of the 2022 Festival will be Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” directed by Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, and Anna Viebrock. The production will star Eric Cutler in the title role, Jacquelyn Wagner, Martin Gantner, Elena Pankratova, and Hans-Peter König. Christian Thielemann conducts. Performance Dates: April 9 {…}
(Credit: Merri Cyr) The Palm Beach Opera has announced its 2022 season featuring three mainstage works. The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen“ celebrating its 60th anniversary. Performance Dates: Jan. 28-30, 2022 PBO will continue its season with Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore,“ one of art form’s most comic works. Performance Dates: Feb. 25-27, 2022 PBO’s final mainstage opera of the season will {…}
