Sonya Yoncheva, Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, Benjamin Appl, Thomas Hampson & Freddie De Tommaso Lead Verbier Festival’s 2025 Season

The Verbier Festival has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Verbier Festival Orchestra and Barbara Hannigan perform works by Berlioz, Haydn, Copland, Rodgers, and Bill Elliot. Performance Date: July 17, 2025 Thomas Hampson and Ksenija Sidorova perform works by Schubert and Weill. Performance Date: July 20, 2025 The VF Academy Atelier Lyrique and {…}

Sep 21, 2024

Q & A: Fabio Luisi on Presenting the Ring Cycle with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi is one of the world’s greatest conductors who has performed many great symphonic works and operatic repertoire. His work has been recognized through many awards including Italy’s Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana and Commendatore della Stella d’Italia, and Genoa’s Grifo d’Oro, the highest honor given by the city of Genoa. He has served as music director at the Zurich {…}

Aug 18, 2024

Festival Valle d’Itria 2024 Review: Norma

(Photo: Clarissa Lapolla) One of the main events at this summer’s Valle D’Itria Festival was a production of Bellini’s oft-performed masterpiece, “Norma.” However, rather than using the traditional Ricordi score, which gained widespread acceptance about 100 years ago, the festival decided to present a new edition by Roger Parker. The argument for the decision was not to rediscover Bellini’s original {…}

Aug 8, 2024

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Announce Additions to Next Stage Digital Concert Series

(Photo credit: Sylvia Elzafon) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has announced two additions to its Next Stage Digital Concert series. Franz Schmidt’s “Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln” (“The Book with Seven Seals”) and the DSO’s new Symphony Stream are now available on the DSO’s YouTube channel. The upload comes in time to honor the year of Schmidt’s 150th birthday. Grammy-winning {…}

Aug 1, 2024

Fabio Luisi Awarded Premio del Belcanto ‘Rodolfo Celletti’

The Fondazione Paolo Grassi and the 50° Festival della Valle d’Itria di Martina Franca have announced that Fabio Luisi will be awarded the 2024 Premio del Belcanto “Rodolfo Celletti.” The award will be given to the conductor following the August 2 performance of Bellini’s “Norma.” The award will be given to Luisi “for the appreciated artistic merits of a luminous {…}

Jan 27, 2023

Philadelphia Orchestra Announces 2023-24 Season

The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced its 2023-24 season. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on vocal performances. Nicholas McGegan conducts Händel’s “Messiah.” Performance Date: Dec. 21, 2023 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Gil Shaham in the Bates Violin Concerto. The concert also includes Peña Laguna’s Oraison, for chorus and orchestra and Brahms’ A German Requiem. Performance Dates: Jan. 26-28, 2023 {…}

Jan 2, 2023

Elenora Buratto & Fabio Sartori to Lead Teatro La Fenice’s 2023 New Year’s Eve Concert

The Teatro La Fenice has announced the soloists for its 2023 New Year’s Eve concert. Following the success of the 2022 concert, the company announced that Fabio Luisi will lead the concert with soloists Eleonora Buratto and Fabio Sartori. Tickets for the concert will be on sale on Feb. 15, 2023. The news comes as the 2022 televised concert saw {…}

May 26, 2021

Irina Lungu, Piotr Beczała & Mauro Peter Headline Opernhaus Zurich’s June Programming

(Photo by Johannes Ifkovits) The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its June schedule. The month kicks off with an open-air brunch concert by the Brass instrumentalists of the Opernhaus Zurich orchestra. The program includes music by Rossini, Dvořák, Mozart, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Bach, Crespo, and Bizet. Performance Dates: June 6 & 20, 2021 The company will present Kinderkonzert “Der Nussknacker für Kinder.” {…}

May 21, 2021

Dresden Music Festival Announces 2021 Slate

The Dresden Music Festival has announced its May and June lineup. The festival will take place both online and in person. The May portion will be held online and the June will be live with an audience. Among the starry lineup will be evenings conducted by Daniele Gatti, Kent Nagano, and Fabio Luisi. Guest soloists will include Jan Vogler, Gil {…}

Apr 12, 2021

Fabio Luisi & Dallas Symphony Team Up with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Fundraising Concert

(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and Music Director Fabio Luisi (Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship) have announced a joint concert with members of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. The collaboration event will benefit the MET Orchestra Musicians Fund and the DFW Musicians COVID-19 Relief Fund and it will be {…}

Apr 12, 2021

Fabio Luisi Named Principal Conductor of NHK Symphony

The NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo has named Fabio Luisi its Principal Conductor. The conductor will take on the new post starting September 2022 and will remain with the orchestra for at least the next three years. Luisi debuted in Japan in 2001 and is currently the Music Director at the Dallas Symphony and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. He is {…}