(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” is undeniably one of his greatest operas. The work certainly has its dramatic challenges, but it is hard to look at the score and find one piece that misses the mark. Every single musical number is vibrant, full of life, and unique in its own way. Not even the {…}
The Théâtre Champs-Élysée has announced its 2019-20 season featuring five opera productions, numerous concert performances, operas in concerts, a Beethoven celebration and a number of recitals. For this season announcement we have narrowed it down to only vocal or operatic performances. Here is a look at the massive season. Deborah Cohen directs a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with {…}
The Canadian Opera Company has announced its 2019-20 season with six productions, including two new ones for the company. Here is a look at what to expect. Carlo Rizzi conducts a new production of Puccini’s “Turandot” by Robert Wilson. Tamara Wilson and Marjorie Owens share the title role with Sergey Skorokhodov and Kamen Chanev alternating the role of Calaf. Joyce El-Khoury and {…}
Just a few months ago Emily D’Angelo became the talk of the town as she won the Operalia competition. Not only did she walk away with the first prize, but she was also the audience’s favorite. Her performance blew audiences away and now at just 24-years-old, she has established herself as one of the biggest rising stars of her generation. {…}
Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo has been awarded the Leonard Bernstein Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. The award, which is worth 10,000 Euros, will give D’Angelo the opportunity to perform in concert in Lübeck on August 16, 2019 with the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. In a press release, jury member Christian Kuhnt said, “Emily D’Angelo has a distinctive, slim-line {…}
Just a few days ago, the Operalia Competition announced its big winners. Among those were mezzo Emily D’Angelo, who actually took home a whopping four prizes on the evening as well as tenor Pavel Petrov, who walked away with the two big male competition prizes for opera and zarzuela (he shared the latter). Obviously, winning a major competition like Operalia {…}
The Operalia competition has announced that its 2018 winners. The competition announced that the first prize winners were Belarus tenor Pavel Petrov and Canadian mezzo Emily D’Angelo. The second prize went to Russian tenor Migran Agadzhanyan and American mezzo Samantha Hankey. The third prize winners were given to Russian tenor Arseny Yakovlev and Canadian mezzo Rihab Chaieb. The Zarzuela awards {…}
The Santa Fe Opera has announced its 2019 season. While the 2018 season has yet to begin, the upcoming 2019 edition will showcase five productions, including one new world premiere. Here is a look Productions Vanessa Vasquez and Mario Chang lead Puccini’s “La Bohème” with a stellar cast that also includes Kirsten Mackinnon and Zachary Nelson. Jader Bignamini conducts the production {…}
