Verona’s Teatro Filarmonico has announced its 2024 season. Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” is set to open the season. Performance Dates: Jan. 21-28, 2024 Puccini’s “La Rondine” will be performed in hommage to Puccini’s 100th anniversary of his death. Performance Dates: Feb. 18-25, 2024 Wolf-Ferrari’s “Il Campiello” gets its first performances at the Teatro Filarmonico. Performance Dates: March 17-24, 2024 Verdi’s “Stiffelio” will {…}
Long Beach Opera has announced its 2024 season, which will center on women composers and librettists with two world premieres, and an opera film, among other offerings. First up is Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo’s “Isola.” George R. Miller directs and Lucy Tucker Yates conducts. Ariadne Greif stars. The work “engages questions and sensations of identity, multiplicities of self, {…}
The Bayreuth Festival has announced its 2024 season. The festival will open with Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” starring Andreas Schager, Günther Groissböck, Camilla Nylund, Olafur Sigurdarson, Birger Radde, and Ekaterina Gubanova. Semyon Bychkov conducts the production by Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson. Performance Dates: July 25-August 26 2024 Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Markus Eiche, Olafur Sigurdarson, Jens-Erik Aasbø, and Elisabeth Teige {…}
The 2024 Glyndebourne Festival has been announced celebrating its 90th season. The season will open with a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen,” directed by Diane Paulus in her Glyndebourne directorial debut. Music Director Robin Ticciati and conductor Anja Bihlmaier will share conducting duties with two casts. The first cast will include mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb in the role of Carmen and {…}
The Rossini Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season. The season will take place in the year that Pesaro will be the Italian Capital of Culture and will offer five operas for a total of thirty performances from August 7th to 23rd 2024. The season will open with a new production of “Bianca e Falliero” directed by Roberto Abbado and staged {…}
The Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca has announced the titles for the 2024 season which will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Operas The season will open on July 17, 2024, with Bellini’s “Norma” in an 1831 version. The opera will be presented as an homage to the festival’s past and will be presented with two sopranos singing the roles {…}
The Amigos Canarios de la Ópera – Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has announced the operas for the 2024 season. The season will include five operas at the Teatro Pérez Galdós from the Italian and French repertoire. The 2024 season will open with Puccini’s famed “Tosca” featuring Piotr Beczala and George Gagnidze. There will also be a production {…}
The PROTOTYPE Festival has announced its 2024 season, the 11th in the company’s history. Kicking things off will be the world premiere of Heather Christian’s “Terce.” The “radical rethinking of a monastic 9 am mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the ‘Holy Spirit’ through the lens of the Divine Feminine” features a 30-person choir, among others. Kennan {…}
(Credit: Karli Cadel) The Glimmerglass Festival has announced its 2024 season. The season, which will run from July 22 to August 20 in Cooperstown, NY, will see productions “The Pirates of Penzance,” “La Calisto,” “Pagliacci,” and “Elizabeth Cree.” The festival will also feature the world premiere of the youth opera “Rumpelstiltskin and the Unlovable Children,” and a new initiative called {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera Erika Grimaldi, Luciano Ganci, and Claudio Sgura star in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” Oksana Lyniv conducts the new production by Leo Muscato. Performance Dates: Jan. 26-31, 2024 Davide Livermore directs a new production of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” with Roberto Aronica, Marta Torbidoni, Lucas Meachem, and Chiara Mogini. Renato Palumbo conducts. {…}
Austria’s Schubertiade has announced its 2024 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Hohenems Soprano Nikola Hillebrand and pianist Helmut Deutsch will perform works by Schubert, Clara Schumann, and Strauss. Performance Date: April 28, 2024 Bass David Steffens and pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz will take on music by Schubert, Brahms, and Strauss. Performance Date: April 29, 2024 Tenor Mauro Peter joins {…}