(Credit: © Hugo Thomassen) The Dutch National Opera is set to perform the Dutch premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera “Die Passagierin.” The production will open on April 17 and run through May 2, starring Jenny Carlstedt, Sibylle Maria Dordel, Nikolai Schukoff, Sylvia D’Eramo, Gyula Orendt, Madison Horman, Iida Antola, Eva Kroon, Margarita Nekrasova, Daria Brusova, Joe Chalmers, Jasurbek Khaydarov, Lucas {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week Sonya Yoncheva releases her first solo recital with her new record label. There will also be a new album by Benjamin Appl and several rarely performed works. There is also a complete opera recording coming out for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Constraints/Creativity {…}
(Photo: Dutch National Opera/Monika Rittershaus) (*** Trigger warning based on explicit content & suicide ***) “Le Lacrime di Eros” takes the audience back to the Italian city states of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a period still basking in the afterglow of the High Renaissance, in which the artworks of Da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo hung in the {…}
The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Luca Salsi and Anna Netrebko team up for Verdi’s “Nabucco.” Ivan Magrì, Marina Prudenskaya, and René Pape join them. Anastasia Bartoli also performs. Bertrand de Billy conducts the new production by Emma Dante. Performance Dates: Oct. 2-26, 2024 Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” receives a new production featuring multiple casts. {…}
The Berlin Philharmonic has announced its 2023-24 Season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Iván Fischer conducts Michael Nagy in works by Jörg Widmann and Gustav Mahler. Performance Date: August 26, 2023 Alexander Rudin, Alexander Melnikov, Nadezhda Pavlova, and Olga Pashchenko perform works by Sergei Rachmaninov. Performance Date: August 27, 2023 Robin Ticciati conducts Wu Wei Sheng, Karen {…}
The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal highlights of the season. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Orchestre de Paris with soloists Bertrand Chamayou, Olga Peretyatko, Pavel Petrov, Alexey Markov, and Bertrand Mandico. The program includes music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Dates: Sept. 6 & 7, 2023 Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Mass in {…}
The Philharmonie Essen has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal and operatic highlights. Magdalena Kožená and Yefim Bronfman perform a recital of music by Brahms, Dvořák, Martinů, Mussorgsky, and Bartók. Performance Date: Sept. 5, 2022 Regensburger Domspatzen, Knabenchor Hannover, and Essener Domsingknaben perform in concert. Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2022 Evelyn Ziegler performs alongside Udo {…}
(Credit: David Ruanoquer) The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced that mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti will perform the role of Cherubino for the final season performances of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” on April 9 & 16, 2022. Viotti joins a cast that includes Gyula Orendt in the role of Count Almaviva, Elsa Dreisig as Countess Almaviva, Regula Mühlemann as Susanna, {…}
(Credit: Staatsoper Unter den Linden official website) The Staatsoper Unter den Linden has announced that soprano Narine Yeghiyan will perform the role of Pamina in Mozart’s singspiel “Die Zauberflöte” on Dec. 25, 2021 at 3 p. m. CET. Yeghiyan joins a cast that includes Peter Sonn as Tamino, Hila Fahima as Die Königin der Nacht, Gyula Orendt as Papageno, and {…}
CueTV has announced that it will premiere Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” on Nov. 23, 2021. The streaming platform will present a 2021 production from the Berlin State Opera which premiered during the lockdown and marked the start of a Mozart-Da Ponte cycle with other productions scheduled for the current season. The new production by Vincent Huguet is set in {…}
(Credits: © Marie Staggat, Deutsche Grammophon / Bayerische Staatsoper official website / Gregor Hohenberg) The Staatsoper Unter den Linden will present the August Everding’s production of Mozart‘s singspiel “Die Zauberflöte” in December 2021. The opera stars Matthias Goerne and Grigory Shkarupa in the role of Sarastro; Siyabonga Maqungo and Peter Sonn as Tamino; Caroline Wettergreen as Die Königin der Nacht; {…}