The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” for 16 performances. The Anthony Minghella production, which is set to be performed between Jan. 11 and May 11, 2024, will showcase two casts. The first cast will see the New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang make her Met debut, leading a cast starring soprano Aleksandra Kurzak as Cio-Cio-San {…}
(Photo credit: Ben Wolf & Gregor Hohenberg) Festival Napa Valley has released details of its upcoming season. This article only contains vocal performances. The first “Festival Live!” concert featuring the Frost School of Music’s Blackburn Music Academy kicks off the festival. Performance Dates: July 6 – 20, 2024 Soprano Pretty Yende and tenor Jonathan Tetelman perform with the Festival Orchestra. {…}
The Festival de Teatro Lírico Español de Oviedo has announced its 2024 season. The season opens with “La Gran Vía” and “Adiós a la bohemia” in a double bill. The cast will include Borja Quiza, Vanessa Goikoetxea, Carlos Mesa, Milagros Martín, Jorge Merino, Néstor Galván, Gabriel Alonso Díaz, David Lagares, Antonio Torres, Sandro Cordero, and Maxi Rodríguez. Víctor Pablo Pérez {…}
It’s time of the year. The moment we wrap up the year and look back at our favorite moments. After releasing our favorite performances of 2023 and showcasing our rising stars of the year, it’s time for OperaWire’s annual tradition of naming our top 11 singers of the year, performers that we thought stood out and had major breaks or performances. So {…}
The Theater Dortmund has a cast change for its production of “La Bohème.” The company said, “Due to illness, Jonathan Tetelman has to miss his appearance as Rodolfo in ‘La Bohème’ on Sunday, Dec. 10th. at the Dortmund Opera, as already on Dec. 7th. at the Vienna Symphony Orchestra’s Advent concert.” The company noted, “Fortunately, a replacement date could be {…}
Jonathan Tetelman’s “Arias” ranks, to who currently writes, among the most sensational debuts in recent years. With a program tailored to his velvety and, at times, dusky tenor voice it made the heavy hitters from both the French and Italian repertoires sound as fresh and untainted as if one had heard them for the very first time. Yet its successor, {…}
Welcome back for this week’s edition of the CD and DVD releases on offer in the opera world. This week is particularly crowded with releases of Maria Callas by Warner Classics to celebrate her centennial. There are also a number of debut albums as well as the second album to one of the biggest rising tenors of his generation. Audiences {…}
Jonathan Tetelman has canceled the Sept. 15 performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” due to COVID-19. The tenor took to social media and said, “I am sorry to report that I am unwell and have recently tested positive for COVID-19. Unfortunately I ma forced to cancel my ‘Madama Butterfly’ appearance at the Deutsche Oper on Sept. 15. I’m greatly looking forward {…}
Deutsche Grammophon has announced Jonathan Tetelman’s second album “The Great Puccini.” The new album presents extracts from nine operas, including such well-known arias as “Nessun dorma,” “Che gelida manina,” and “E lucevan le stelle,” as well as numbers from less familiar operas such as “Le villi” and “La rondine.” Tetelman is joined by the PKF – Prague Philharmonia, conductor Carlo {…}
Photo credit: SF Bernd Uhlig In one of his literary excursions, the great Portuguese author Eça de Queiroz reviewed the premiere of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in Lisbon. He did not see the original Italian version of the opera, but the revised French one and quite likely with the same cast as in Paris. Eça insisted that Verdi was the greatest living {…}
The Teatro Massimo di Palermo has announced its 2023-24 season. Opera The season opens with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e Montecchi.” Omer Meir Wellber conducts the production by Idan Cohen. The cast includes Maria Kataeva and Anna Pennisi as Romeo and Marina Monzó and Francesca Pia Vitale as Giulietta. Ioan Hotea, Mert Süngü, Marco Spotti, and Gabriele Sagona round out the {…}