(Credit: Sim-Canetty-Clarke) Details of the 2024 Patmos Music Festival have been released. For the purposes of this article only vocal performances will be spotlighted. This year’s Festival under the Unesco Auspices, includes the third edition of the Chamber Music Festival and the 22nd edition of the Sacred Music Festival. Tenor Ian Bostridge, pianist Maya Oganya, and other instrumentalists presents songs {…}
(Kia Caldwell Photography) The 92nd Street Y in New York City has announced its 2024-25 Tisch Music Season. Here is a rundown of the classical vocal performances. Vocalist and composer Caroline Shaw headlines “Rectangles and Circumstance” alongside Alica Olatuka and So Percussion. Performance Date: Oct. 23, 2024 Soprano Julia Bullock and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment present “The Golden {…}
The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced its 2024-25 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra“ in a production by Richard Jones. Michele Mariotti conducts the production with a cast that includes Luca Salsi in the title role, Eleonora Buratto, Stefan Pop, and Michele Pertusi. The opening night will be streamed on Rai5 and Radio3. Another cast will {…}
The Sinfónica de Galicia has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Ian Bostridge and Nicolás Gómez Naval star in a program of music by Britten and Beethoven with Roberto González-Monjas conducting. Performance Dates: Nov. 1, 2024 Nikola Hillebrand and Roberto González-Monjas join forces for music by Mozart, Mahler, and Strauss. Performance Dates: Jan. 31, 2025 Raquel Lojendio {…}
JW3 has announced its 2024-25 season. The Classical Music Series 2024-2025 is set to run from Sept. 5, 2024 to March 12, 2025. For this article, we will focus on the vocal performances. International tenor Ian Bostridge and Mishka Rushdie Momen will perform Schubert’s “Schwanengesang.” They will also perform six rapturously melodious songs by Gabriel Fauré. Performance Date: Oct. 10, {…}
(Credit: Sim-Canetty-Clarke) Baltimore’s Shriver Hall Concert Series has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake will perform a program that includes music by John Dowland, Gerald Finzi, Schubert, Haydn, Roger Quilter, Ivor Gurney, Korngold, and Britten. There will be a pre-concert talk by JHU Writing Seminar’s David Yezzi. The concert kicks off at {…}
The New Word Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Stéphane Denève, Yuval Sharon, and Danielle De Niese team up for Viktor Ullmann’s “The Kaiser of Atlantis” and Kurt Weill’s “The Seven Deadly Sins.” Performance Date: Oct. 19 & 20, 2024 Xian Zhang conducts music by Rachmaninoff, Holst, and Wagner. The program {…}
The 75th Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts has been announced featuring chamber, orchestral and vocal concerts. Here is a look at the vocal events. Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper, and Rachel Jones perform Messiaen’s “Harawi – Chant d’amour et de mort.” Performance Date: June 8, 2024 Rt Revd Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich preacher, Aldeburgh {…}
(Credit: Sim-Canetty-Clarke) San Francisco Performances is set to feature tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Wenwen Du in a performance of Schubert’s “Winterreise” on Oct. 21, 2023. The showcase will kick off at 7:30 p.m. at the Herbst Theatre. “It’s an honor to welcome back the extraordinary tenor Ian Bostridge, in a program that he has truly made his own. His {…}
©Sandrine Expilly The world premiere of Antonio Salieri’s opera “Kubla Khan” (“Cublai, Gran Kan De Tartari”) is among the many highlights of Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques’ 2023-24 season. Here is the full rundown of what audiences can expect this year. Starting off, sopranos Marie Lys and Judith van Wanroij perform “Ave Maris Stella” with Christophe Rousset at the {…}
This week audiences are in for a number of legendary recordings as well as two world premiere recordings. There are also some debut albums and some new works that are exciting. Archetype Lexicon Classics releases the debut album by two-time Grammy Nominated baritone Stephen Powell. Titled “Archetype,” this orchestral album, mixed by 18-time Grammy®-Winning engineer Mark Donahue and produced by {…}