Rai 3 is joining forces with the Arena di Verona once again to televise Puccini’s “Turandot.” The broadcast will be on August 19 in Franco Zeffirelli’s production featuring costumes by Oscar-winning designer Emi Wada. The cast will include mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk in the title role alongside Yusif Eyvazov as Calaf. The cast will also include Mariangela Sicilia, Riccardo Fassi, Youngjun {…}
The Greek National Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Corinne Winters, Véronique Gens, Tassis Christoyanniszu, Alexandre Duhamel, Dionysios Sourbis, and Stanislas de Barbeyrac star in Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Aulide” & “Iphigénie en Tauride” double bill. Michael Hofstetter conducts the new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Performance Dates: Oct. 10-30, 2024 Rachmanioff’s “Aleko” and Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” will be presented in a double {…}
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra“ in a production by Richard Jones. Michele Mariotti conducts the production with a cast that includes Luca Salsi in the title role, Eleonora Buratto, Stefan Pop, and Michele Pertusi. The opening night will be streamed on Rai5 and Radio3. Another cast will {…}
The Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid has announced its 2024-25 season. Siobhan Staag, Olivia Vermeulen, Antoni Lliteres, and Manel Esteve perform music by Mozart with Alondra de la Parra conducting. Performance Date: Nov. 5, 2024 Irene Más, Anna Alàs, Juan Sancho, and Elias Arranz perform Händel’s “Messiah” with Josep Vila i Casañas conducting. Performance Date: Dec. 16, {…}
The Opéra de Monte-Carlo has announced its 2024-25 season. Festival Centenaire Puccini Giacomo Sagripanti conducts Puccini’s “La Rondine“ in Concert. Pretty Yende, Charles Castronovo, Deanna Breiwick, Juan Francisco Gatell, and Roberto de Candia. Performance Date: Oct. 30, 2024 Anna Netrebko, Nino Machaidze, Mariam Battistelli, Yusif Eyvazov, and Florian Sempey lead Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Biagio Pizzuti, Giorgi Manoshvili, and Matteo Peirone {…}
The Royal Opera House has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the season. Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” will open the season with a cast that includes Luca Micheletti, Ying Fang, Huw Montague Rendall, Jacquelyn Stucker, and Ginger Costa-Jackson. Performance Dates: Sept. 2-15, 2024 Verdi’s “La Traviata” will feature two casts. The first cast will be headlined {…}
The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its performance of Verdi’s “Aida” on April 25, 2024. The company said that Ekaterina Semenchuk will sing the role of Amneris replacing Eve-Maud Hubeaux who is ill. Semenchuk is known for her interpretation of Verdi’s heroine having performed the role at the Salzburg Festival, Teatro Real, San Francisco Opera, and Mariinsky {…}
The Mariinsky Theatre has announced that it will perform a concert for the victims of the Crocus City Hall tragedy. The company said that on March 27, Verdi’s Requiem will be played in the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre. The concert will honor the memory of “the victims of the terrible terror attack in Moscow.” Valery Gergiev will conduct {…}
Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” conjures up fire from the outset like firelight. It burns and blazes with passion. It smolders. The more Verdi wrote, the more his imagination leapt into flames. One magnificent, powerful and engaging aria, duet, trio, quartet and chorus, emerging after the other. Dazzling. And what a story – an Italian troubadour with love affairs and babies tossed {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The San Francisco Opera is set to open its 101st season with Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The opera, which will be performed from Sept. 12 to Oct. 1, will feature Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leading the San Francisco Opera Orchestra with the Opera Chorus and a cast that includes soprano Angel {…}
The San Francisco Opera has announced a cast change for its production of Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The company said that mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk will perform the role of Azucena in all performances, replacing Anita Rachvelishvili who has withdrawn for personal reasons. Semenchuk returns to San Francisco following performances with the company in productions of “ Luisa Miller” “Aida,” and “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Semenchuk joins {…}