Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao Announces 2025-26 Season Featuring Sasha Cooke & Carlos Mena

The Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances on offer. Orchestral Sasha Cooke joins Ramón Tebar for Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen. The concert also includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-17, 2025 Carlos Mena conducts Bach’s St John Passion with Ana Quintans, Rodrigo Carreto, José Coca Loza, and Peter Harvey. Performance {…}

Jun 9, 2025

Joyce El-Khoury, Davone Tines, Matthias Winckhler, & Núria Rial Star in L’Auditori’s 2025-26 Season

(Photo credit: Gisela Schenker) L’Auditori presents its 2025-26 season, “Renaixements.” For the purpose of this article only vocal works are included. Beethoven’s “Symphony” No. 9 stars Joyce El-Khoury, Silvia Tro Santafé, Elgan Llyr Thomas, and Davone Tines. They are joined by the Orfeó Català and the Barcelona and National Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia (OBC) under the direction of Ludovic Morlot. {…}

May 17, 2023

Orquesta de Extremadura Announces 2023-24 Season

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 {…}

Jun 4, 2022

Sarah Connolly, Regula Mühlemann & Carlos Mena Lead Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE’s 2022-23 Season

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 {…}

Jun 3, 2022

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada Announces 2022-23 Season

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 {…}

May 23, 2022

Euskadiko Orkestra Announces 2022-23 Season

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 {…}

Jun 17, 2021

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 {…}

Jun 15, 2021

Festival de Granada Announces 2021 Season Featuring Anna Caterina Antonacci, Matthias Goerne & Christian Gerhaher

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, {…}

May 31, 2021

Anna Netrebko, Joyce El-Khoury, Benjamin Appl, Cecilia Violetta López, Jonathan Tetelman Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream This Week

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 {…}

May 28, 2021

Xavier Sabata, Patricia Petibon & Ian Bostridge Highlight Auditori de Barcelona’s 2021-22 Season

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 {…}

Apr 23, 2021

Matthias Goerne, Anna Caterina Antonacci & Florian Boesch Lead Festival de Granada’s 2021 Season

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 {…}

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