(Photo: G Schied) Händel’s “Alcina,” first performed in London in 1735 and based on episodes from Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso” (1532), ranks among the composer’s supreme achievements. Far more than a succession of dazzling da capo arias, it is a profound meditation on love’s capacity to delude, possess and ultimately destroy. On the enchanted island of the sorceress Alcina, men who {…}
Spain’s Festival de Torroella has announced its 2026 season. Here are the vocal performances. The ensemble Cantoría performs music by José de San Juan, Joan Cererols, José de Torres, José Martínez de Arce, Juan Francés de Iribarren, Santiago de Murcia and Mateo Romero. Performance Date: August 7, 2026 The Tallis Scholars perform music by Palestrina, Nicolas Gombert, Arvo Pärt and Roland de {…}
(Photo credits: Fowler, La Seine Musicale announces its 2026-27 season. Here’s a look at the classical vocal works. Bruckner’s “Motets” and Tchaikovsky’s “Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom accentus” is directed by Sigvards Kļava. Performance Date: October 16, 2026 Cerise Calixte and Igor Bouin perform in “Cerise au pays de l’opéra.” The children’s opera features excerpts from operas by Mozart, Bizet, {…}
La Monnaie/De Munt has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Jeanine de Bique, Kseniia Proshina, Ismael Jordi and Airam Hernandez star in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Florence Losseau, Travon D. Walker, and Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev. Valentina Peleggi conducts the production by Julia Burbach. Performance Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 17,, 2026 Alain Altinoglu conducts Berg’s “Wozzeck” in a production by Christophe Coppens. Scott {…}
The Fort Worth Opera has announced its 2026-27 Season. Jeanine De Bique and Aaron Wajnberg perform in concert. Performance Date: October. 29, 2026 “Scalia/Ginsburg” by Derrick Wang will star Jennifer Zetlan, Peter Scott Drackley, and Andrew Simpson. Stephanie Rhodes Russell conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 13 & 14, 2026 Lauren Salazar, Ashlyn Rock, Noah Mond, and Cecil Garrison star in Gian {…}
The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Gustavo Dudamel conducts music by Di Castri, Adams, and Prokofiev. Performance Dates: Sept. 16-19, 2026 Gustavo Dudamel conducts an inaugural gala. Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2026 Gustavo Dudamel conducts “Tosca” with Marina Rebeka, Jonas Kaufmann, and Ludovic Tézier in Carnegie Hall. Performance Dates: Nov. 13 & 15, {…}
Opernhaus Zürich announces its new festival, “Zürich Baroque.” The first edition of “Zürich Baroque” aims to bring together opera productions, concerts, chamber music, family formats and performative projects in a concentrated panorama of historically informed performance practice. Over 10 days, the festival will give the premiere of Jean-Marie Leclair’s “Scylla et Glaucus,” present Handel’s “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” and “Aci, {…}
Soprano Jeanine De Bique and pianist Aaron Wajnberg will make their LIFE Victoria debuts on Monday, February 16 at 8:00 p.m. local time. The recital, which will take place at the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista in Barcelona, will feature Purcell’s “The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation,” songs by André Previn set to texts by Toni Morrison, Britten’s “Les Illuminations,” and traditional Caribbean {…}
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the two vocal performances. Manfred Honeck conducts Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler,” Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major” and Arvo Pärt’s “Fratres.” Soloists include Jeanine De Bique, Julie Boulianne, John Matthew Myers, and Alexander Birch Elliot. The concert also features the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. Performance Dates: Dec. {…}
Carnegie Hall has announced its 2026-27 season featuring a star studded lineup. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Jonas Kaufmann opens the season with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko in an all-Italian program that includes works by Verdi, Respighi, Cilea, Giordano, and Leoncavallo. Performance Date: Oct. 8, 2026 The Sphinx Virtuosi is joined by J’Nai Bridges for {…}
The Opéra de Rouen Normandie has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Chelsea Lehnea, Leonardo Sanchez, and Anthony Clark Evans lead Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Dayner Tafur-Diaz conducts the production by Jean-François Sivadier. The opera will be livestreamed on Oct. 4, 2025. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 7, 2025 Elsa Benoit and Samuel Hasselhorn lead Brahms’ Deutsche Requiem. Laurence Equilbey conducts the production {…}