(Credit: Frances Marshall) “At Home With… ” is a brand new series collaboration between OperaWire and photographer Frances Marshall of Marshall Light Studio, combining original photography with insightful interviews. In this first edition, OperaWire spoke with singer, recording artist, television host, and ambassador of the arts, Danielle de Niese. De Niese lives in the main house at Glyndebourne—home of the {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the next five weeks of its streaming slate which will focus on Baroque to the present, followed by a week of productions conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a Family Drama Week, and a Stars in Signature Roles week All Nightly Met Opera Streams begin at 7:30pm and remain available via metopera.org for 23 {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced week 29, 30, and 31 of its Nightly Streams. which will center on Mozart, Wagner, and Donizetti. Here is a full rundown of the schedule which features some of opera’s greatest stars making multiple appearances throughout the week. All Nightly Met Opera Streams begin at 7:30 p.m. and remain available via metopera.org for 23 hours. The {…}
(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 {…}
On Saturday, August 29, 2020, Washington Performing Arts will partner up with the United States Air Force Band to co-present an inside look on Grammy Award-winning composer Christopher Tin’s oratorio “To Shiver the Sky.” The work, which was intended to world premiere in Washington, D.C. in May, was reinvented for an online format that includes music, interviews, and a live {…}
The Glyndebourne Opera has announced the next operas that it will present as part of its “Open House” streaming service. First up will be Britten’s “Billy Budd.” The opera, which was directed by Michael Grandage and conducted by Mark Elder, stars John Mark Ainsley as Captain Vere, Darren Jeffery as Ratcliffe, Phillip Ens as Claggart, and Jacques Imbrailo in the {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 17th week of its nightly streams. This week’s streams include such opera stars as Anna Netrebko, Luciano Pavarotti, Ben Heppner, and Eva Marton. Monday, July 6 – Puccini’s La Bohème Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Susanna Phillips, Michael Fabiano, Lucas Meachem, Alexey Lavrov, Matthew Rose, and Paul Plishka, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From February 24, 2018. Tuesday, {…}
This week two full opera recordings will be released–a solo recital, and a choral album. Here is a look at what you can stream this week. Cendrillon Massenet’s rarely performed work gets released in a production by Fiona Shaw from the Glyndebourne Festival. The new DVD stars Nina Minasyan, Danielle de Niese, Kate Lindsey, Lionel Lhote, and Agnes Zwierko. John Wilson conducts {…}
In keeping with last week’s themes of dialogue regarding racial equality in the opera world, we highly recommend checking out the several online shows such as Karen Slack’s “KikiKonversations,” Kenneth Overton’s “Black Opera Live,” and The Sitdown with LB,” hosted by Lawrence Brownlee. There is also a new conversation from Long Beach Opera regarding “Equity & Diversity in the Arts” that is {…}
OperaVision has announced that it will present a Summer Gala on Sunday, June 21, 2020, at 7 p.m. CET. The gala will be presented in collaboration with several opera companies including the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, Komische Oper Berlin, Glyndebourne, Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra Comique Paris, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Royal Swedish Opera Stockholm and Polish National Opera Warsaw. Among {…}
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown theaters around the world, the Metropolitan Opera has announced not one but two weeks of nightly streams in advance. The next few weeks feature a mix of more recent performances with some classic showcases from decades ago. Here’s the rundown. Monday, May 25 – Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust Conducted by James {…}