The IberCamera will celebrate its 42nd anniversary during the 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances of the season. Bruno de Sa will perform selections by Scarlatti, Bonocini, Marcello, Corelli, and Händel. He performs alongside Dorothee Oberlinger and Ensemble 1700. Performance Date: Jan. 26, 2026 The Collegium Vocale Gent, Orquesta, and Coro under Philippe Herreweghe will perform Bach’s “St Matthew Passion. {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. It’s about the holidays so this week there is a new Christmas album as well as a final recording by one of the great mezzos of her time, a re-release of a classic recording, a new recording of Massenet’s work, and many baroque {…}
(Photo: Birgit Gufler) After 13 years in the post, Alessandro De Marchi brings his tenure as the artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music to a close with a program dominated by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Not only do many of the festival’s events feature his music, including the festival’s closing concert “Lieto Fine,” but all three {…}
This week new albums by rising stars are being released. With these new releases audiences will also get a chance to hear rare works as well as some new works. Maestrino Mozart For her second collaboration on the ATMA Classique label, soprano Marie-Eve Munger releases an album devoted to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s rarely-heard arias composed between the ages of 10-16. {…}
The Theater an der Wien has announced its 2020-21 season featuring 13 new productions, chamber opera, and opera in concert. Productions The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Zazà” starring Svetlana Aksenova in the title role, Nikolai Schukoff, Christopher Maltman, Dorothea Herbert, and Enkelejda Shkosa. Stefan Soltész conducts the new production by Christof Loy. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-27, 2020 Wayne Marshall conducts {…}
