The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2022 season. Grigorij Frid’s “Il diario di Anna Frank” will be performed by Shira Patchornik and conducted by Giulio Laguzzi. Anna Maria Bruzzese directs the production. Performance Dates: Jan. 27 & 28, 2022 Dinara Alieva and Maria Teresa Leva lead Puccini’s “La Bohème” with Valentin Dytiuk and Matteo Lippi as Rodolfo. The cast {…}
(Credit: ©E. Moreno Esquibel) On Sept. 20, the Teatro Real de Madrid will inaugurate the 2021-22 season with Rossini’s “La Cenerentola.” The opera will be directed by Stefan Herheim and will be conducted by Riccardo Frizza. In statement, Frizza said, “Spain is the country where I live and which has given great meaning to my life as a musician. And {…}
(Photo Credits: Emma Birski / OnP) Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is the full slate. Operas “The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas” by Marina Abramovic will open the season. The showcase stars Nadezhda Karyazina, Selene Zanetti, Leah Hawkins, Adela Zaharia, Lauren Fagan, Gabriella Reyes, and Hera Hyesang Park. Yoel Gamzou conducts. Performance dates: Sep. 1 {…}
The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liege, Belgium will premiere a semi-staged production of Verdi’s “La Traviata” on April 8. The production, which is conducted by music director Speranza Scappucci, is set to star Patrizia Ciofi as Violetta and Dmitry Korchak as Alfredo. Giovanni Meoni will round out the cast as Germont. Audiences will be able to access the performance {…}
(Credit: Henry Fair) Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has announced the appointment of Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare its new Music Director. Payare will start his five-year tenure during the 2022-23 season. The Venezuelan conductor will replace the famed conductor Kent Nagano, who has held the position since 2006. Payare graduated from the famous musical education program “El Sistema.” He won the {…}
Mezzo.Tv is set to present “La Traviata” from the Gran Teatre del Liceu on Dec. 31 . The production by Sir David McVicar will star Kristina Mkhitaryan in the role of Violetta alongside Dimitry Korchak as Alfredo Germont and Giovanni Meoni as Giorgio Germont. Speranza Scapucci will conduct the production. Mezzo and Les Films Jack Fébus will co-produce the production recording {…}
The Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona has announced a cast change for Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The company revealed that tenor Pavol Breslik has been forced to cancel due to laryngitis. In his stead, tenors Dmitry Korchak and Arturo Chacon-Cruz will take over performances slated for Dec. 16 and 17. Korchak is currently performing the production and will take on two {…}
(Credit: Barcelona Connect website) Gran Teatre De Liceu has announced that it will resume the presentation of Verdi’s “La Traviata” on Dec. 14, 2020. According to an official statement, the opera house will reopen with a 50 percent seating capacity limitation. As a result, two new performances will be added to the run, on Dec. 22 and Dec. 23 2020. {…}
(Credit: Ilona Sochorova) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced multiple cast changes for its upcoming performances. Per an official statement on the opera houses’ website, tenor Carlos Osuna will perform the role of Narraboth and Robert Bartneck will take on the role of the Third Jew in Richard Strauss’ “Salome” on Oct. 6, 2020. Osuna and Bartneck will join a cast {…}
(Credit: Opéra National de Paris official website) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced that Italian baritone Nicola Alaimo will take over the title role in Donizetti and Ruffini’s opera “Don Pasquale,” replacing Erwin Schrott. Alaimo will perform for the presentations on Oct. 13, 17, 21, and 24, 2020. The Italian baritone will join a cast that includes Dmitry Korchak in the {…}
(Photo: Studio Amati Bacciardi) Despite the restrictions in place caused by the COVID pandemic, the Rossini Opera Festival has managed to put together a reduced festival of outdoor concerts and recitals along with a fully-staged performance of the maestro’s one-act farsa “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” at the Teatro Rossini. The opera, written in 1810 for the San Moisè in Venice {…}