The Utah Opera has announced its 2021-22 season featuring four staged productions with live audiences. Here is a rundown of what the company will have on offer next season. Michael Adams stars in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville“ alongside Sarah Coit, Matthew Grills, and Matthew Burns. Gary Thor Wedow conducts Michael Shell’s production. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-17, 2021 John Holiday, {…}
This week audiences can experience two rarely performed Donizetti operas, two visual albums, a solo CD and a rarely performed opera. Here are the new releases you cannot miss. Shunia Music duo Shunia releases its self-titled album, “SHUNIA.” The group features Lisa Reagan and Suzanne Jackson, who have performed with the Washington National Opera for 20 years in addition to {…}
It’s the holiday season and therefore there are a lot of new holiday albums and selections for the week. Here are the black Friday releases you should stream today! Reflejos The great Spanish soprano María Bayo releases her new album dedicated to Latin American and French songs, as well as never recorded music by the Belgian artist Max Moreau. The new {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York will kick off its four-concert season early next month at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. OSNY is set to present “two touchstone works of 20th century choral repertoire that shine in the cathedral’s resonant acoustic” – Maurice Duruflé’s masterpiece Requiem, and excerpts from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers.” Featured performers will include contralto Kirsten Sollek, {…}
The Pensacola Opera will present a Jukebox Gala. The gala, which will be held on Oct. 12 at Skopelos at New World, will be a musical extravaganza with a four-course dinner. The Jukebox Gala will offer an intimate cabaret-style concert featuring classic opera arias, musical theatre favorites, and jazz standards sung to you tableside by acclaimed professional opera singers. The {…}
New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine has announced its ninth season of “Great Music in a Great Space.” Director of Cathedral Music and organist Kent Tritle will lead the chorus. Musica Sacra will perform Guillaume de Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame,” Josquin des Prez’ Motets, and Gregorian Chant during “Music for a Gothic Space.” A recital by {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York has revealed details of its upcoming 147th season, which will include two world premieres. The season will kick off with “Rachmaninoff and Duruflé” at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The program will include excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, an “a cappella work of remarkable spirituality,” along with Duruflé’s Requiem. Featured vocalists will include contralto Kirsten {…}