(Credits: Daniil Rabovsky / Gisela Schenker / Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras official website) The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will be returning to the stage on August 28, 2020. The Orchestra has announced its fall season which will last until December 23, 2020. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on the vocal works. Mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg will perform {…}
(Credits: © Sim Canetty-Clarke / Dario Acosta / Patrick Allen) BBC Proms has announced the schedule for the two weeks of live performances at the Royal Albert Hall. Compared to the initial plans that were conveyed to the public in May, there will be no live audience. For the purpose of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. {…}
(Credits: © Yiorgos Mavropoulos / Andreas Weiss) The Herbstgold Festival in Eisenstadt has announced its 2020 Edition. For the purposes of this article, we will focus only on vocal performances. The festival opens with a concert starring soprano Marlis Petersen, mezzo-soprano Anke Vondung, tenor Werner Güra, and bass Florian Boesch. The program includes Haydn’s Symphony No. 30 in C major {…}
(Credit: Apoorva Gupta) Online music platform IDAGIO has announced the full schedule for its Global Concert Hall. For this article, our focus will be on opera-related performances. To this point, the company has only announced concerts scheduled up until July 7, though there are events set to take place through August and beyond. It all starts with Zubin Mehta leading {…}
The Handel and Haydn Society has pledged to pay musicians for canceled concerts scheduled throughout the remainder of the 2019-20 season. Per a press release, the company will pay artists 100 percent of the salary contractually agreed upon. The payments will total over $350,000 for 88 orchestra and chorus musicians. Artists will receive their payments on the same day they {…}
(Photo:Richard Boll) The Greek myth of Arianna (Ariadne in English) is a story rich in strong and contrasting emotions, for she is a woman who experiences love in extremis, and pays the price of loving the wrong man, Theseus, with whom she flees her home and betrays her family, only to be abandoned by him on the island of Naxos. {…}
The Handel + Haydn Society is set to showcase “Mozart + Haydn” on Jan. 24 and 26, 2020 at Symphony Hall Boston. The performance will showcase the Lord Nelson Mass under the musical direction of Harry Christopher. The mass has been called Haydn’s single most essential composition. “Lord Nelson Mass captures the swirling turmoil and drama of Napoleon’s wartime invasions that {…}
The Royal College of Music Opera Studio will present “Il Mondo della Luna” on Nov. 25-30, 2019. The showcase of Haydn’s opera, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing will be conducted by Michael Rosewell with William Relton directing the production. Kevin Treacy will be lighting designer while Ruari Murchison will design the production. Relton began {…}
(Photo Credit: Kevin Yatarola) On August 4, 2019, the Budapest Festival Orchestra brought their talents to David Geffen Hall for an exciting program of works by Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Joining conductor Ivan Fischer and the orchestra was Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique, making her debut performance with the Mostly Mozart Festival in spectacular fashion. First, Haydn Starting the evening’s {…}
On Sunday, Mar. 31, 2019, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented “Seven Last Words” at Alice Tully Hall, featuring bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, who has graced the stages of the Metropolitan Opera and Vienna State Opera, along with the Orion String Quartet. The Chamber Music Society aims to share great chamber music with audiences across the globe, performing {…}
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present Seven Last Words at Alice Tully Hall, featuring bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green. Green, who, according to the press release, recently appeared on CBS 60 Minutes “to tell the story of his rise from juvenile delinquent to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera,” will perform Bach’s Cantata “Ich habe genug,” BWV 82 {…}