Spain’s Orquesta de Extremadura has announced its 2023-24 season celebrating Andrés Salado’s third season as Music Director. Here are the vocal performances. Mar Morán, Sandra Ferrández, Airam Hernández, and David Menéndez perform Mozart’s Requiem. Andrés Salado conducts. The program also includes music by Purcell. Performance Dates: Feb. 8 & 9, 2024 Jone Martínez and Carlos Mena team up for a {…}
The Orquesta y el Coro de RTVE in Spain has announced its 2022-23 season. The season will be themed “Raices” and will feature a number of vocal performances highlighted here: Pablo González conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with Stefanie Irany. Performance Dates: Oct. 6 & 7, 2022 Pablo González conducts Nuria Núñez Hierro’s ‘Enjambres’ and Leos Janácek’s “Mass” with Gun-Brit {…}
The Orquesta Ciudad de Granada has announced 2022-23 Season and here is a look at the vocal performances. The Chorus and Orchestra of Granada will perform an all-Händel program with Harry Christophers conducting. Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2022 Lucas Macias conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of Granada in a program of music by Brahms and Lopez-Montes. Performance Dates: Sept. 30 {…}
Spain’s Euskadiko Orkestra has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights of the season. M. Mussorgsky, G. Carpenter, Dvorak, and Tchaikovsky make up the program conducted by Roberto Fores and featuring Easo Gazete Easo Eskolania Performance Dates: Oct. 28-Nov.4, 2022 Pablo Gonzalez conducts Orff’s Carmina Burana” with Jone Martinez, Carlos Mena, Javier Franco, and the {…}
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 {…}
The Festival de Granada has announced its 2021 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus solely on vocal and operatic performances. Mezzo-soprano Gloria Oya headlines a benefit concert for the Asociación pro Inteligencia Límite y Asociación Síndrome de Down de Granada. The concert is entitled “Mujeres de Lorca y dos canciones de amor.” Performance Date: June 19, {…}
It’s happening. As the opera world starts progressing toward live performances, digital offerings are being tailored back a bit. We will continue this series nonetheless, providing our recommendations for some of the exciting upcoming opera events that you can stream from home in the event that you are not yet ready or able to return to a live performance. This {…}
The Auditori de Barcelona has announced its 2021-22 season featuring a variety of music and soloists from around the world. Here is a look at the vocal highlights. Juliet Fraser joins the Plus-Minus Ensemble for music by Cassandra Miller. Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2021 Maria Hinojosa and Anna Alàs join Francisco Poyato, Anna Crexells, and the SEED Ensemble for songs {…}
The Festival de Granada in Spain has announced its 2021 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the vocal and choral performances. Nuria Rial and Maria José Moreno perform alongside José Sánchez-Montes and Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in a program with music by Schoenberg and Mendelssohn. Performance Date: June 17, 2021 Schola Antiqua and Juan {…}
(Credit: Ceric Larrayadieu) Les Talens Lyriques has announced its 2020-21 season, which will include performances across Europe in London, Vienna, Paris, Würzburg, Dortmund, Heidelberg, Linz, Innsbruck, Ferrara, Bologna, Genoa, Bilbao, Brussels, Liège, Caen, Rouen, and Qatar. For the intents of this article, we will focus on opera and vocal performances. The season kicks off performances of Purcell’s “Orpheus Britannicus,” Suite {…}
The 69th Grenada Festival opened its 32-day extravaganza of music with a solemn performance of Mozart’s “Requiem” at the Granada Cathedral. Soloists soprano Katharina Konradi, countertenor Carlos Mena, tenor Xabier Anduaga and bass-baritone Carlos Álvarez joined the Grenada Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Andrea Marcon. The Archbishopric of Granda co-produced the performance with “la Caixa” Foundation. “la Caixa” {…}
