Trinity Church Wall Street has announced its 2023 holiday concerts. It all starts with a performance of Händel’s “Messiah” with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under Ryan Brandau. The performance on Dec. 14 will be live streamed. Performance Dates: Dec. 13-15, 2023 Then comes “Sing, Choirs of Angels: Holiday Concert and Sing-Along.” The showcase features The {…}
The Festival Internazionale di Muscia e Arte Sacra has announced its 2023 season. The opening performance will be held at the Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giulio Caccini. The performance will include Sekai, the Orchestra di Roma e IlluminArt Chorus (Giappone), and conductor Tomomi Nishimoto. Performance Date: Nov. 4, 2023 The {…}
The “Cavarzere Opera Festival – Tullio Serafin” has announced its 2023 season. The third edition of the festival opens at the Teatro Tullio Serafin with a concert featuring the winners of the “Concorso lirico Tullio Serafin 2023.” The concert will be entitled “Così fan tutte Live” which will feature aria, duets, and ensembles from “Così fan tutte.” The interpreters will {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Sassari has announced its 2023 season. The season will open with a concert conducted by Michelangelo Mazza and soprano Francesca Sassu. Performance Date: Sept. 23, 2023 Verdi’s “Macbeth” will be conducted by Michelangelo Mazza and will star Franco Vassallo, Gabrielle Mouhlen, and Gianluca Terranova. Andrea Cigni directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 13 & 15, 2023 Rossini’s “Il {…}
Roulette has unveiled its fall 2023 season. Here is a breakdown of the vocal performances on offer. First up is a performance featuring Numimous, an ensemble by Joseph C. Phillips Jr. Audiences will get a chance to hear excerpts from Phillips Jr.’s opera “So Far Behind Now Because Then” as well as four world premiere compositions by Brandon, Branker, Goldberg, {…}
Festival Musica Strasbourg has unveiled its plans for its 2023 season, which kicks off this September. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. “Dompter les rivières” will feature such vocalists as Fayssal Benbahmed, Pauline Leurent, Maxime Pacaud, and Marie Seux in music by Eve Risser and Antoine Spindler. Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2023 Joris Lacoste will produce {…}
The Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago, which is set to run between July 14 to August 26, 2023, has announced its 69th edition. The festival will showcase four operas in all, including three new productions. Claudia Pavone, Oreste Cosimo, Federica Guida, Alessandro Luongo, Sergio Bologna, and Antonio Di Matteo star in Puccini’s “La Bohème” in a production by Christophe {…}
(Credit: Philip Vile) Britten Pears Arts has unveiled its Autumn 2023 season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. Mezzo Anna Huntley and pianist Lucy Colquhoun present a recital of songs by Schubert, and Britten, among others. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2023 There will be two “Scratch Choir days.” The first features music by Emma Lou Diemer and Vaughan {…}
Spain’s Little Opera de Zamora has announced its 8th season. Manuel de Falla’s “El retablo de Maese Pedro” will be performed with Mauro Pedrero, Adelaida Galán, and Carlos Fernández. Natalia Zapatero performs on piano and Cristian Santos directs. Performance Dates: August 2-6, 2023 Miren Urbieta-Vega and Aquiles Machado lead a gala concert with Alberto Cubero conducting the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla {…}
The Amigos de la Ópera de A Coruña has announced its 2023 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Aida” with Jose Miguel Perez Sierra conducting. Marigona Qerkezi, Nino Surguladze, Jorge Puerta, Carlos Almaguer, Giacomo Prestia, and Simon Orfila. Performance Dates: Sept. 14 & 16, 2023 Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette” will star Mario Bahg, Sofia Esparza, Borja Quizo, and Luis {…}
Japan’s Suntory Hall Summer Festival has announced its 2023 season which will take place on August 23 to 28, 2023. The festival will be formed of three different strands: The Producer Series MASAHIRO MIWA, Theme Composer OLGA NEUWIRTH as part of the “Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition,” and Yasushi Akutagawa Suntory Award for Music Composition. The Producer Series {…}