(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 {…}
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 {…}
(Credit: Koichi Miura/Metropolitan Opera) The Dallas Symphony has announced that it has extended the contract for its Music Director Fabio Luisi for another five years, throughout the 2028/29 concert season. Luisi began his first season as Music Director in the current 2020/21 season after a year of holding the title Music Director Designate. Luisi also holds the positions of General {…}
(Credit: © DR / Opéra National de Paris official website) The Royal Concertgebouw has announced that the famed conductor Fabio Luisi will not lead the orchestra during the 2020 Christmas Matinee on Dec. 25, 2020. Maestro Luisi has tested positive for COVID-19 and has to spend 10 days in quarantine. Additionally, tenor Piero Pretti had to cancel the performance due {…}
(Credit: Monika Rittershaus) The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will extend the contract of its Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi until 2026. Luisi will lead the Danish National Symphony Orchestra season’s opener on September 3, 2020 in a concert featuring soprano Elsa Dreisig and mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. “With Fabio Luisi {…}
(Credit: Barbara Luisi) The Dallas Symphony Orchestra announced on Friday that it will present a new curated fall season of short concerts with smaller ensembles playing to a maximum audience of 75 people per performance. The redesigned fall season at the Meyerson Symphony Center, with a maximum seating capacity of 2,602, will begin on Sept. 4. The fall season will {…}
The Opernhaus Zürich has announced it will reopen its doors in July. The company announced that following the Swiss government’s regulations in order to minimize the spread of the coronavirus, the theater will showcase recitals with a maximum of 300 audience members. The recitals, which will begin on July 2 and run through July 12, will feature such artists as {…}
We’re starting to see the world open up slowly in some countries and rapidly in others. But the performing arts world isn’t quite opening at the same pace with few organizations back in the full swing of things. As a result, streaming options are ever-prevalent. So as we move into the summer months, here is a look at what operas {…}
Opera for Peace has announced that several of opera’s greatest stars are joining the organization as ambassadors and advisors. Tenor René Barbera and sopranos Elsa Dreisig and Joyce El-Khoury have become the organization’s newest ambassadors. Meanwhile, conductor Fabio Luisi, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, and baritone Ludovic Tézier have signed on as Advisors; they join baritone Thomas Hampson and soprano Sumi Jo, who {…}
(Credit: Sylvia Elzafon) The Dallas Symphony has announced its 2020-21, which launches the tenure of famed conductor Fabio Luisi as Music Director. For the purposes of this article, the focus will be on opera and vocal performances. The season will open with a gala concert led by Luisi that will feature music of Massenet, Mozart, Puccini, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Verdi, and {…}
(Credit: Opernhaus Zürich) Opernhaus Zürich will honor the memory of the late conductor Nello Santi by performing Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, according to the official statement on the company’s website. General Music Director of the Opernhaus Zürich Maestro Fabio Luisi will conduct the Zürich Philharmonic in the performance of Verdi’s masterwork that will star soloists soprano Hibla Gerzmava, tenor Benjamin {…}