The Festival Perelada has announced its 2025 season. Joyce DiDonato and Craig Terry will perform in recital. Performance Date: July 3, 2025 Genius Loci is a unique stage performance directed by Rafael R. Villalobos. The production star countertenor Xavier Sabata and will feature music from Purcell to contemporary. Performance Date: July 5, 2025 Julian and Christoph Prégardien will perform “In {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) On May 1, the Metropolitan Opera presented the second performance of its spring “Aida” run. This run is special as it marks the return of Elīna Garanča to the Met for the first time in five years. It is incidentally, also her first Verdi role in the United States. Garanča made her role debut {…}
Angel Blue is set to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Redlands. The soprano took to social media to announce the news stating, “Hello Everyone! I hope you are all well in body and strong in spirit!! This Friday, April 25, I will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Redlands!! Between rehearsal for {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème,” featuring Nicole Car, Yaritza Véliz, Charles Castronovo, Joshua Guerrero, Andrea Carroll, Étienne Dupuis, Xiaomeng Zhang, and Alexandros Stavrakakis. Domingo Hindoyan conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 12-Oct. 14, 2025 Cecilia Molinari leads Handel’s “Ariodante” alongside Luca Tittoto, Jacquelyn Stucker, Sabine Devieilhe, Rupert Charlesworth, Christophe Dumaux, {…}
The Washington Concert Opera has announced a new cast change for its performance of “Luisa Miller” on April 13, 2025. The company said, “Due to unforeseen circumstances, soprano Angel Blue had to withdraw from her upcoming debut as Luisa.” As a result, “in her stead, soprano Amanda Woodbury will sing the title role. This will mark the return of Woodbury {…}
The Houston Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the Vocal performances of the season. Juraj Valčuha and Angel Blue team up for the opening night for an evening featuring music from J. Wolfe, Schmitt, and Stravinsky. Performance Dates: Sept. 19-21, 2025 Juanjo Mena conducts Sara Couden and Jean-Yves Thibaudet in music by De Falla {…}
Angel Blue is set to return to LA Opera on March 15, 2025 for a concert entitled “Coming Home: Angel Blue in Concert.” The soprano will perform at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion alongside Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados. Blue launched her career with LAO’s young artist program and returned to LA in 2022 for “Tosca.” The soprano will be joined by {…}
The Washington Concert Opera is set to present two works in 2025. On March 1, the company will present Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” with Edgardo Rocha in the role of Tito. He will be joined by Tamara Wilson who will sing the role of Vitellia, Stephanie Doche as Sesto, Meridian Prall as Annio, and Raven McMillon as Servilia. Before {…}
The Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo has announced the cancelation of Piotr Beczala’s concert. The company said that the tenor would no longer be performing on Jan. 31 due to health reasons. As a result, Angel Blue will sing on the same date alongside Joachim Gustafsson and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá. The program will contain the soprano’s favorite {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Verdi’s “Aida” will be the next HD in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. The new production of “Aida” opened on Dec. 31 to controversy and mixed reviews with OperaWire noting, “Mayer’s production was passable, especially by his standards. Whether the execution justified its own existence is certainly a question for those managing {…}
(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The curtain rose on Egyptian tombs. In the center, a rope came down and with it an archeologist. As he reached the bottom to get off the rope, he fell to the ground, the sound of his body crashing over the delicate violins that opened the prelude to Verdi’s Aida.” That was not supposed {…}