(Photo courtesy of Dallas Opera) In celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, the Dallas Opera is set to present a showcase concert on Nov. 9, 2019 at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. The performance will feature singers from Opera for Peace as well as the Dallas Opera. Among the 2019 conductors that {…}
(Credit: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) On Thursday, the Metropolitan Opera will open its fourth production of the season – Puccini’s “Turandot.” This run of performances is unique because they represent the first time that the Met Opera’s music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts an opera by Puccini at the famed house. To this point, he has tackled works by Bizet, {…}
(Credit: Suzanne Vinnik) Rising star soprano Gabriella Reyes will be performing alongside the Montclair Orchestra on Sept. 22, 2019. The concert, which will take place at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, will feature the overture from Rossini’s “Semiramide,” Rimsky Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” and Behzad Ranjbaran’s “Songs of Eternity;” this latter selection will feature Reyes. The main theme of the concert is music {…}
(Photo: Suzanne Vinnik) Santa Fe Opera has announced that Nicaraguan-American soprano Gabriella Reyes will take on the role of Musetta in the company’s upcoming new production of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” She will replace Kirsten MacKinnon, who “has withdrawn from the production for personal reasons,” according to the press release. Reyes is a 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions grand finalist. She made {…}
The Operalia Competition has announced the singers that will be competing this year in Prague. They include 12 sopranos, six mezzo-sopranos, 10 tenors, three basses, eight baritones, one bass-baritone, and one counter tenor. 10 contestants appear from the USA with five from Russia, three from South Korea, and two from South Africa. The host nation gets one representative in the {…}
Lisette Oropesa was announced as the big winner of the Richard Tucker Award on Monday, but there were also a number of other major artists who scored big victories through the other accolades given by the Richard Tucker Foundation. The organization announced that the 2019 Richard Tucker Career Grants would go to sopranos Gabriella Reyes and Laura Wilde, as well {…}
The New York Choral Society is set to perform a concert entitled “My Shadow and My Light.” The concert set for Nov. 12, 2018, at Carnegie Hall, will showcase Barber’s choral arrangement of his famous Adagio – “Agnus Dei.” a rarely performed piece, the work that showcases the same simplicity and gut-wrenching emotional power of its orchestral counterpart. The concert will {…}