The Cincinnati Opera has announced its 2023 season featuring four productions. The season opens with Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” featuring a cast that includes Raven McMillon, Santiago Ballerini, Anthony Clark Evans, Griffen Hogan Tracy, Terrence Chin-Loy, and Sahel Salam. Renato Balsadonna conducts the production by Jose Maria Condemi. Performance Dates: June 22 & 24, 2023 The World Stage Premiere of {…}
The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2023 season. The Anteprima to the season will be “Mirandolina” by Bohuslav Martinů. Oksana Lyniv conducts the production by Gianmaria Aliverta. Performance Dates: Jan 14 & 15, 2023 The season opens with Oksana Lyniv conducting Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer“ in a new production by Paul Curran. The opera will star Peter Rose, {…}
London’s BBC Proms has announced a cast change for its performance on July 30, 2022. The festival announced that Daniela Barcellona, Ivan Gyngazov, and Jung Soon Yun have withdrawn from Prom 19: Puccini’s “Il Tabarro.” As a result, Annunziata Vestri, Adam Smith, and Shengzhi Ren will replace them. Vestri will perform the role of La Frugola while Smith will sing {…}
The Opéra de Lyon has announced its 2022-23 season featuring opera, concerts, and ballet. here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Daniele Rustioni conducts the new production by David Hermann of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.” The cast includes Simon O’Neill, Christoph Pohl, Robert Lewis, Pete Thanapat, Elena Guseva, and Irène Roberts. Performance Dates: Oct. 11-30, 2022 Massenet’s “Hérodiade” will be performed in {…}
The English National Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring eight productions and seven operas. Leo Hussain conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Christof Loy. The cast will include Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Adam Smith, and Noel Bouley. Performance Dates: Sept. 30–Nov. 4 2022 Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Yeomen of the Guard” will include Anthony Gregory, Neal Davies, Alexandra Oomens, Heather {…}
On Dec. 17, the Teatro Mayor Julio Santo Domingo in Bogota will present a new production of “Tosca” with an international cast and international conductor. Among the cast members is British tenor Adam Smith who will sing the role of Cavaradossi. Smith will make his debut at the prestigious Colombian house in a role he debuted earlier this year at {…}
(Photo Credits: In Art Management / © Jiyang Chen / Gillian Riesen / © Raphael Brand / LA Opera official website / © Jean-Baptiste Millot) La Monnaie De Munt has announced its new 2021-22 season, consisting of 12 operas and seven recitals. Here is the full slate. Operas Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s opera “The time of our singing” {…}
The Austin Opera has announced that the company will return to live performances staging Puccini’s “Tosca” at Germania Insurance Amphitheater at Circuit of the Americas (COTA), the city’s Formula 1 racetrack located just 15 miles outside the downtown core. The work, which will be performed twice on April 29 and May 1, will feature the Austin Opera Orchestra and Chorus {…}
The Opéra de Montréal has announced its 2020-21 season with five productions highlighting the season. The season opens with Verdi’s “La Traviata” starring Marie-Josée Lord in the title role, Rame Lahaj as Alfredo, and Jean-François Lapointe as Germont. Jordan De Souza conducts Alain Gauthier’s production. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 2020 Marianne Fiset sings the title role in Janáček’s “Jenůfa” with Samuel {…}
The Austin Opera has announced its 2020-21 season featuring three main stage productions and an Opera ATX production. Here is a look at the new season: The season opens with Opera ATX, which is now in its third season. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Penelope” will be presented at The North Door, an iconic performance space on Austin’s East Side. This production, {…}
If stuffy audiences at the Opéra-Comique first attacked George Bizet’s “Carmen” for its offensive content, today the opera runs the risk of seeming antiquated. Much of the music might get your toes tapping, but over-exposure risks making the most popular tunes seem trite or even parodic. Today’s audiences might not appreciate the orientalist take on Spanish culture that was so {…}