Danielle De Niese & Carmen Giannattasio Lead InClassica Malta International Music Festival 2021 Edition

(Credit: LA Opera official website / Cory Weaver) The InClassica Malta International Music Festival has announced its 2021 slate, which will take place from April 17 to May 11, 2021. The line-up will include 33 soloists, including Martha Argerich, Grigory Sokolov, Rudolf Buchbinder, Gautier Capuçon, Danielle De Niese, Carmen Giannattasio, Daniel Hope, Gidon Kremer, Denis Matsuev, Andreas Ottensammer and Maxim {…}

Plácido Domingo, Sonya Yoncheva & Carmen Giannattasio Lead La Grande Musica alla Reggia di Caserta’s 2020 Summer Season

La Grande Musica alla Reggia di Caserta has announced a summer edition featuring some of the greatest stars in the world. Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo perform an evening entitled “Summertime” with Daniel Oren leading the Orchestra Filarmonica Giuseppe Verdi di Salerno. The performance features music by Verdi and Puccini. Performance Date: August 3, 2020 Jordi Bernàcer conducts the “Gala {…}

Carmen Giannattasio, Roberto Alagna & Aleksandra Kurzak Highlight Teatro Massimo’s ‘Sotto Una Nuova Luce’

The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced a summer season entitled “Sotto Una Nuova luce.” The concerts will take place at the Teatro di Verdura and will be streamed via the company Massimo TV.  For this article, we will only focus on vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber opens the festival with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Desirée Rancatore, Chiara Amarù, {…}

Elina Garanča, Ailyn Pérez & Lawrence Brownlee Headline Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s 2020-21 Season

(Credit: Chris Singer/ Paul Schirnhofer/DG/ Shervin Lainez) The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli has announced its 2020-21 season which will be the first under superintendent Stéphane Lissner. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème” in a new production by Emma Dante. Selene Zanetti stars as Mimì with Damiana Mizzi as Musetta, Stephen Costello in his house debut as Rodolfo, {…}

Plácido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Angela Gheorghiu, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Headline Vienna State Opera’s Star-Studded Streaming Slate for June 2020

(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg / Marius Baragan / Pavel Vaan & Leonid Semenyuk) The Vienna State Opera has announced its streaming slate for the month of June. Here is a rundown of the opera performances audiences can check on the company’s official website. June 1 – Die Frau Ohne Schatten Performance of Oct. 18, 2019 starring Stephen Gould, Camilla Nylund, Mihoko {…}

Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros & Anna Netrebko Headline Bayerische Staatsoper’s 2020-21 Season

The Bayerische Staatsoper announced its 2020-21 season which includes eight new productions and numerous revivals. Premieres The first new production of the year will be “Die Vögel” by Walter Braunfels, who also penned the libretto. Ingo Metzmacher conducts a production by Frank Castrof that will star Wolfgang Koch, Günter Papendell, Caroline Wettergreen, Emily Pogorelc, Eliza Bloom, and Yajie Zhang, among {…}

Roberto Alagna, Venera Gimadieva & Alice Coote Headline Hamburg State Opera’s 2020-21 Season

Article in collaboration with Dejan Vukosavljevic The Hamburg State Opera has announced its 2020-21 season featuring six new productions and a number of revivals. Here is a look at the season. Oper Stabile  Penderbayne’s “Unser kleines Scheißkaff” will be performed by Larissa Wäspy, Kady Evanyshyn, Ida Aldrian, Nicholas Mogg, Hubert Kowalczyk, Peter Galliard, and Katja Pieweck. Ingmar Beck conducts the {…}

Diana Damrau & Carmen Giannattasio Lead Top 5 Operas To See This Weekend Internationally (1/25-27)

This weekend is all about standard repertoire pieces with some of the world’s greatest stars. La Bohème – Opera de Monte Carlo, Monaco Daniele Callegari conducts Jean-Louis Grinda’s production of Puccini, Giacoso, and Illica’s most popular work. The cast stars acclaimed soprano Irina Lungu, Mariam Battistelli, Andeka Gorrotxategi, Davide Luciano, Boris Pinkhasovich, Nicolas Courjal, Fabrice Alibert, and Guy Bonfiglio. Lucia {…}