Ohio-based Dayton Performing Arts Alliance will conclude its 2022-23 season with a special performance. The program, which will feature Mozart’s “Missa brevis in C Major, K. 259,” will include performances by soprano Kayla Oderah, mezzo-soprano Allison Deady, tenor Carl Rosenthal, bass Sankara Harouna, and the Dayton Philharmonic Chorus. “The program opens with the seventh of the eight ‘short masses’ that {…}
Kazuki Yamada/courtesy of CBSO The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) has unveiled its 2023-24 season, and it’s full to the brim with opportunities to hear some of the world’s finest music and musicians. With over 12 months of programming, the Orchestra has something for everyone. The Orchestra will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the City of Birmingham Symphony {…}
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on the lone vocal performance. Earl Lee leads a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with such soloists as Julie Adams, Jazimina MacNeil, César Andrés Parreño, and Joseph Parish. The program also features John Adams’ “The Wound-Dresser.” Performance Date: May {…}
The National Symphony Orchestra is set to present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 this June as part of an all-Beethoven series. The performance will feature such soloists as Camilla Tilling, Kelley O’Connor, Issachah Savage, and Hanno Müller—Brachmann; Tilling and Müller-Brachmann will be making their debuts with the organization. Gianandrea Noseda leads the ensemble and the Washington Chorus under the artistic direction {…}
San Francisco Opera is set to present “Rise Up and Resist: A Commemorative Concert” on April 28, 2023 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater. Per an official press statement issued by San Francisco Opera, the showcase, “will span solemn musical remembrance; outlawed music performed in the Warsaw Ghetto in defiance of the Nazi regime; music performed by the {…}
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has announced their 2023 season of summer events. Among the events is “Sāvitri & Blond Eckbert,” a double bill of chamber operas that come from opposite ends of the 20th century. The former, by Holst, is based on a Sanskrit epic, and explore themes of love and devotion in the face of death, with {…}
The Illinois-based Elgin Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season, the 74th in its history. For the purposes of this article, our sole focus will be on vocal performances. The season opens with soprano Christine Brewer taking on Strauss’ famed “Four Last Songs.” Performance Dates: Oct. 7 & 8, 2023 The Elgin Symphony Orchestra season comes to a close with {…}
The Orquesta Filarmónica d Bogotá will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo on March 5, 2023. Emil Tabakov will conduct the showcase, featuring soprano Laura Arias, mezzo-soprano Daniela Callejas, tenor Sergio Blázquez, and bass Noé Colín. The Coro Filarmónico Juvenil will join them. The program will also feature Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3. {…}
On December 9, 2022, conductor Gustavo Dudamel will begin to release complete videos for all nine Beethoven Symphonies on his YouTube channel. Drawing from his performances with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Spain, Dudamel will release one symphony per day leading up to Beethoven’s birthday on the 17th. Soloists {…}
On October 26, 2022, Lincoln Center’s newly-renovated David Geffen Hall presented the first of its opening night galas, titled “The Journey.” The event was a momentous celebration of the music and history which has played so large a part through the numerous forms and iterations the hall has taken over the decades. The reinvented venue strikes a visually-appealing balance between {…}
New York’s Heartbeat Opera has announced its 2022-23 Season, which includes a video premiere and the company’s Spring Festival, featuring significant adaptions of Puccini’s “Tosca” and Verdi’s “Macbeth.” The Season kicks off with a free video premiere of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” featuring over 100 incarcerated singers from six prison choirs. Ethan Heard adapted and directed this re-imagining of the opera in {…}