Cecilia Molinari, Airam Hernández, Zarina Abaeva & Anna Stephany Highlight Teatro Nacional de São Carlos’ 2021 Fall Performances

(Credit: https://www.visitlisboa.com/) Portugal’s Teatro Nacional de São Carlos has announced the schedule until January 2022. Here is a look at operatic and vocal performances. Operas The season opens with concert performances of Tchaikovsky‘s “Iolanta.” The opera spotlights Misha Didyk, Evgeny Stavinsky, Guriy Guryev, and Zarina Abaeva in the title role. Graeme Jenkins conducts. Performance Dates: Sep. 29 – Oct. 3, 2021 {…}

Nancy Fabiola Herrera & Airam Hernández Lead Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria’s 2021-22 Season

Spain’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria has announced its 2021-22 season with Karel Mark Chichon returning as Music Director. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on vocal performances. The season opens with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Karel Mark Chichon. Soloists will include Miren Urbieta-Vega, Anna Alàs i Jové, Airam Hernández, and Paul-Armin Edelmann. Performance Dates: {…}

Nancy Fabiola Herrera, María José Siri & Airam Hernández Lead Ópera de Tenerife’s 2021-22 Season

Spain’s Ópera de Tenerife has announced its 2021-22 season featuring six operas. Miguel Ortega’s “La casa de Bernarda Alba” will be produced for the first time in Tenerife with Ortega conducting. Nancy Fabiola Herrera stars in the title role with Carmen Acosta, Beatriz Lanza, Marina Rodríguez-Cusí, Belén Elvira, Melody Louledjian, Luis Cansino, Carmen Mateo, and Marga Arnau. Silvia Paoli will {…}

Ermonela Jaho, Lisette Oropesa & Daniela Mack Lead Teatro de la Maestranza’s 2021-22 Season

The Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Spain has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is a look at the operatic and vocal performances. Operas Ermonela Jaho and Carmen Solís alternate the title role in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” with Amadi Lagha, Enrique Ferrer, Damián del Castillo, Gerardo Bullón, Moisés Marín, Felipe Bou, José Manuel Díaz, and Diana Larios. Alain Guingal conducts {…}

Anna Netrebko, Javier Camarena, Sonya Yoncheva & Sondra Radvanovsky Highlight Gran Teatre del Liceu’s 2021-22 Season

The Gran Teatre del Liceu has announced its 2021-22 season featuring new productions, concerts, and a special 175th-anniversary gala. Here is a look at the new season. Opera The first opera of the season is set to be Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” starring Iréne Theorin and Johanni van Oostrum sharing the title role. They will be accompanied by Samantha Hankey, {…}

Ermonela Jaho, Yolanda Auyanet & Ángel Òdena Highlight Ópera de Oviedo’s 2021-22 Season

Ópera de Oviedo has announced its 2021-22 season. The Spanish season will open with Verdi’s “Nabucco” featuring Ángel Òdena in the title role, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Antonio Gandía, Simón Orfila, and Theresa Kronthaler. Gianluca Marcianò conducts. Performance Dates: September 2021 The second opera of the season will be Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” with Lucas Macías Navarro conducting and Albert Estany directing {…}

Marina Rebeka, Ricarda Merbeth & Stéphane Degout Lead Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse’s 2020-21 Season

The Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse has announced its 2020-21 season. Here is a look at the opera and vocal performances. Productions  Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles” opens the season in a new production by Thomas Lebrun. Emmanuel Plasson conducts the production with Anne-Catherine Gillet, Mathias Vidal, Alexandre Duhamel, and Jean-Fernand Setti. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 9, 2020 Catherine Hunold {…}

Joyce El-Khoury Headlines The Hungarian Premiere Of ‘Sardanapalo’

The 2020 Spring Festival in Budapest is set to present the Hungarian premiere of Liszt’s opera “Sardanapalo.” The premiere will star Joyce El-Khoury, Airam Hernández, and Oleksandr Pushniak with Giampaolo Bisanti conducting the Staatskapelle Weimar. The opera was discovered 30 years after the death of the composer which was discovered at Weimar’s Goethe and Schiller Archive. David Trippett, a musicologist at {…}