The Orquesta y Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. Alondra de la Parra conducts an all-Shostakovich program with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, Joven Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Pequeños Cantores de la ORCAM, and Coro Nacional de España. Performance Date: {…}
Ibermúsica has announced its 2025-26 season with concerts being held at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid. Here are the vocal performances. Le Concert d’Astrée with conductor Emmanuelle Haïm will feature Emöke Baráth and Carlo Vistoli. Performance Date: Dec. 3, 2025 The Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by Daniel Raiskin and will feature pianist Noelia Rodiles and bass {…}
Sometimes it is hard to understand what was going on in the mind of an orchestral manager booking a concert. The last Handel and Haydn Society concert—despite its many musical merits—was an enigma, an afternoon full of conglomerate causes. We all gathered for the sake of Haydn’s “Spring” (from his oratorio “The Seasons”) and Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major.” When {…}
BCN Classics has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. Emőke Baráth and Carlo Vistoli lead Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” with the Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm. The evening will be held at the Palau de la Musica Catalana. Performance Date: Dec. 1, 2025 Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s {…}
(Photo: Szofi Raffay) Domènec Terradellas, a composer born in 1711 in Catalonia, remains a somewhat elusive figure in the case of 18th-century opera. Following training at the prestigious Naples conservatory, his music flourished in Italy and London prior to his untimely death in suspicious circumstances in 1751. His “La Merope,” a testament to the abiding popularity of Merope’s tragic tale, {…}
The Gran Teatre de Liceu has announced a cast change for its concert of Mozart’s Requiem. The company said soprano “Emőke Baráth joins today’s concert of Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ at the Sagrada Família replacing Anna Prohaska, due to a medical prescription.” Baráth has performed at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Salzburger Mozarteum, Opéra national du Rhin, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Teatro dell’Opera di {…}
(Photo Credit : Klara Beck) The Strasbourg Opera in collaboration with the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden and the Lausanne Opera is offering Handel’s “Ariodante” from November 6th-13th. The production will then go to Mulhouse on November 22nd and 24th. On closer inspection, this drama per musica announces many of the operas to come to amateurs. Thus, its three-act {…}
Acte 4 has announced its 2024-25 season. This article only features vocal works. Sopranos Emőke Baráth and Lauranne Oliva, countertenor Tim Mead, tenor Robin Tritschler, and baritone Benjamin Appl are soloists in Handel’s “Messiah.” They are joined by The Spiritual Concert orchestra and choir and directed by Hervé Niquet. Performance Dates: December 11, 2024 Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre sings Sapho, Iphise and Eglé {…}
The 29th Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival has released the details of its 2025 season, titled “Liberated Time.” For the purposes of this article only vocal performances are included. Soprano Eleanor Lyons, mezzo-soprano Sophie Harmsen, tenor Benjamin Hulett, and bass Johannes Kammler with the Collegium Vocale Gent present works by Eisler and Beethoven. They are accompanied by the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. As August ends, there will be a plethora of song albums as well as new music works that audiences can discover. Here is a look. Die schöne Müllerin Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” will be released by Harmonia Mundi and will feature tenor Julian {…}
Soprano Emőke Baráth has signed with Ibermúsica Artists for Spanish representation. Aleix Palau will manage her. Over the past years, Baráth has attracted the attention of the musical world by winning the First Prize in the Cesti Competition in Innsbruck, Grand Prix de l’Académie du Verbier Festival, and Prix Junio Prima Primissima in Hungary. The soprano has performed with the {…}