Benjamin Bernheim Asmik Grigorian, Juan Diego Florez, Elīna Garanča & Cecilia Bartoli Lead Salzburg Festival’s 2024 Season

(Credit: © SF / Peter Rigaud) The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2024 Season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Opera Strauss’ “Caprricio” is set to be performed in concert form with Elsa Dreisig and Bo Skovhus as Countess and Count. The cast also includes Sebastian Kohlhepp (Flamand), Konstantin Krimmel (Olivier), Mika Kares (La Roche), Ève-Maud Hubeaux (Clairon), {…}

Nov 2, 2023

Richard Tucker Music Foundation 2023 Review: 48th Annual Gala Concert

On October 29, 2023, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation presented their 48th annual gala concert at Carnegie Hall. Over the decades, the foundation has provided support, training, and performance opportunities to some of opera’s most promising stars, many of whom have gone on to share their gifts with audiences around the world. This year’s concert saw a number of departures {…}

Oct 19, 2023

CD Review: Jonathan Tetelman’s ‘The Great Puccini’

Jonathan Tetelman’s “Arias” ranks, to who currently writes, among the most sensational debuts in recent years. With a program tailored to his velvety and, at times, dusky tenor voice it made the heavy hitters from both the French and Italian repertoires sound as fresh and untainted as if one had heard them for the very first time. Yet its successor, {…}

Oct 15, 2023

Metropolitan Opera 2023-24 Review: La Bohème

Photo: ©Met Opera press Metropolitan Opera is presenting Puccini’s “La Bohème” with set designs by the masterful Franco Zeffirelli for its 2023-24 season run with a total of 18 performances which began on October 10th, continuing through January 3, 2024. The season opener marked the 1,347th performance at the opera house, and in order to not get lost in the {…}

Sep 18, 2023

Richard Tucker Foundation Announces 2023 Gala, Which Spotlights Past Winners

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation has announced its annual gala, which is set to take place on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023 at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. While the gala usually honors a winner every year, this event will spotlight such past winners and grant recipients as Ben Bliss, Stephen Costello, Michael Fabiano, Susan Graham, Quinn {…}

Sep 12, 2023

Federica Lombardi & Anita Hartig Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘La Bohème’

The Metropolitan Opera is set to revive Puccini’s “La Bohème” for 18 performances in the fall and winter. The opera, which is set to run between Oct. 10 and Jan. 13, will first star Federica Lombardi in the lead role alongside Matthew Polenzani, Olga Kulchynska, and Adam Plachetka. The cast also includes Sean Michael Plumb in his Met role debut as {…}

Sep 1, 2023

Andrea Bocelli, Piotr Beczala, Adriana González & Riccardo Fassi Lead New CD/DVD Releases

This week audiences will get a chance to hear a new album by a great tenor and complete operas by Mozart, Donizetti, Moniuszko, and Gluck. Romances Star tenor Piotr Beczala presents a selection of romances by Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, together with the acclaimed accompanist Helmut Deutsch. In a statement, Beczala noted, “When I first began to study singing at the Katowice Academy of {…}

May 19, 2023

Metropolitan Opera HD Live to Present ‘Don Giovanni’ in Cinemas Worldwide

The Metropolitan Opera will present a live broadcast of Tony Award-winning Director Ivo Van Hove’s new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” on May 20, 2023 at 12:55 p.m., as part of “The Met: Live in HD” series. The production will have a world-class cast led by baritone Peter Mattei in the title role, bass-baritone Adam Plachetka (Leporello); sopranos Federica Lombardi, {…}

May 6, 2023

Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: Don Giovanni

(Credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera) On May 5, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera finally put on its new production of “Don Giovanni” for a packed house. For those who don’t remember, this production was set to premiere during the previously announced 2020-21 season, but of course, we all know what happened. Fortunately, Ivo Van Hove’s production is finally here and {…}

May 3, 2023

Nathalie Stutzmann Leads Metropolitan Opera’s New Productions of ‘Don Giovanni’ & ‘Die Zauberflöte’

The Metropolitan Opera is set to close out its 2022–23 season with two Mozart works in new productions. The productions will be “Don Giovanni” with Ivo van Hove directing and “Die Zauberflöte” with Simon McBurney directing. “Don Giovanni,” which will be performed between May 5 and June 2, will star Peter Mattei in the title role, Adam Plachetka, Federica Lombardi, {…}

Jan 3, 2023

Eun Sun Kim to Lead Christian Spuck & Dutch National Opera & Ballet’s ‘Messa da Requiem’

The Dutch National Opera & Ballet is set to present “Messa da Requiem” starting on February 9, 2023. The showcase, which runs for a total of 12 performances through Feb. 25, presents a reimagined exploration of Verdi’s famed “Requiem” through the eyes of Christian Spuck, who will direct and choreograph the piece. Per an official press release, “drawing on a {…}