(Credit: ©Todd Rosenberg) The 2024-25 season of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana has been announced. Rosa Feola and Fabio Centanni will perform at the Teatro Argentina in a program of music by Piccinni, Rossini, Liszt, Ponchielli, and Pinsuti. Performance Date: April 10, 2025 “Falstaff, burattini e burle” based on Verdi’s work with dramaturgy by Anna Pedrazzini and Nadia Milani will be {…}
Salle Cortot has announced its “Recontres Musicales de Cortot,” a series of major performances throughout the rest of 2024-25. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer. Véronique Gens will present a recital alongside pianist Morgane Fauchois-Prado centering on the vocal works of Fauré. Performance Date: Nov. 15, 2024 In April, audiences will bear witness to the Élite Normale {…}
Opera Columbus has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is “The Threepenny Opera.” The work stars Benjamin Dutcher, Tesia Kwarteng, Fitzgerald St. Louis, Robert Kerr, Michelle Trainor, Erica Gabriel, and Hannah Bullock. Austin Regan directs and Dr. Everett McCorvey conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 22 & 24, 2024 Next up is “West Side Story” with Rossen Milanov conducting and Allegra Libonati {…}
Tapestry Opera has unveiled its 2024-25 season. “We are thrilled to unveil our 2024-25 season as we celebrate 45 years of Tapestry Opera with an exciting and dynamic array of productions welcoming performing-arts-loving audiences to our newly built downtown home. It’s a remarkable moment for Tapestry and Toronto to add a vital new venue to the independent performing arts scene,” {…}
The Philharmonia Orchestra has unveiled the second half of its 2024-25 season. (To check out the first half, click here.) Here is a rundown of the vocal and operatic performances on offer. Riccardo Muti will conduct Verdi’s Requiem with a star-studded quartet of singers. Soloists include Juliana Grigoryan, Elīna Garanča, Piotr Beczała, and Ildebrando d’Arcangelo. Performance Date: March 27, 2025 {…}
Opera Hispánica has announced its 2024-25 season. The season kicks off on Oct. 10 with the world premiere of “Las Maldiciones,” a monodrama for soprano and bandoneon. The performance features soprano Sasha Gutiérrez alongside composer Rodolfo Zanetti and baritone Fabian Veloz. Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2024 In February, the company presents “Klara,” an opera in four haikus. It is presented in {…}
Virginia’s Shakespeare Opera Theatre has announced its 2024-25 season. First up is “La Vie de Bohème” featuring Puccini’s famed opera. Performance Date: Dec. 6 – 15, 2024 Next up is “Drowning Ophelia,” a one-act dark comedy “about the long-term consequences of childhood abuse, and a love letter to those who have suffered. There is always hope.” Performance Date: April 1 – 12, {…}
California’s Independent Opera Company has unveiled its 2024-25 season. First up is “The Stone Guest” to open its 2024-25 season. The Russian opera by Dargomyzhsky, which is based on the Don Juan legend, will be presented at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall in Los Angeles. Performance Dates: Nov. 1 & 2, 2024 Then comes Strauss’ “Daphne” at La Cañada {…}
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops have announced the 2024-25 Live from Music Hall Digital Concerts. Here is a rundown of the vocal showcases on offer. First up, Marin Alsop conducts Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the May Festival Chorus. The program also includes Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony. Performance Date: Nov. 17, 2024 Then comes the “HOLIDAY POPS” showcases with the {…}
The College of Performing Arts – Mannes, Jazz, Drama at The New School has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances of the season. The Mannes Opera opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in The New School’s art deco auditorium on 12th street in a production by Mannes Opera Managing Artistic Director Emma Griffin. Performance Dates: Oct. 18 & {…}
The Toronto Consort has unveiled its 2024-25 season. The company will open the season with “A Muses Garden” which features works from the Elizabethan period as curated and hosted by soprano Dame Emma Kirkby. “It speaks of anguish, delight and ineffable beauty, allowing the singer freedom to embody thoughts and emotions which listeners have recognized and shared ever since! Is {…}