The Franz Schubert Filharmonia has announced its 2024-25 season, which will continue at the Palau de la Música Catalana. There will be one vocal performance in the season. Here is a look. Núria Rial and José Antonio López lead a program featuring the Fauré Requiem. The program also includes music by Cherubini, Faure, and Farrenc and is conducted by Laurence {…}
(Credit: Sergio Parma) Spain’s Teatro Villamarta Jerez has announced its 2023-24 season. Ismael Jordi will give a recital in honor of Luis Mariano. Ruben Fernandez Aguirre accomapnies. Performance Date: Oct. 12, 2023 Ainhoa Arteta and Maria Terremoto lead “Que Suenen Con Alegria!” alongside conductor Francisco Lopez. Performance Date: Dec. 8, 2023 Jose Miguel Roman leads the Christmas Concert which includes {…}
The Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the vocal performances. Karel Mark Chichon conducts Verdi’s Requiem with soloists Krassimira Stoyanova, Dmytro Popov, Rihards Macanovskis, and Olesya Petrova. Performance Dates: Sept. 21, 2023 Elina Garanca, José Antonio López, María José Moreno, and Ismael Jordi lead “Luisa Fernanda” with Karel Mark Chichon. Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2023 Karel Mark {…}
The Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the vocal performances. David Afkham opens the season with Rachmaninoff and Elgar. Soloists include Frank Peter Zimmermann, Anush Hovhannisyan, Pavel Petrov, and Anatoli Sivko. Performance Dates: Sept. 22-24, 2023 Juanjo Mena conducts Brindley Sherratt in a program of music by Mussorgsky, Inés Badalo, and Tchaikovsky. Performance {…}
Barcelona’s BCN Classics has announced the 2023-24 season featuring a number of stars. For this article, we will focus on the sole vocal performance. Josep Vicent conducts the ADDA Simfònica Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Xavier Montsalvatge’s Spiritual song. The concert will star Erika Grimaldi, Teresa Iervolino, Airam Hernández, and José Antonio López. The concert will also feature {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) The LA Philharmonic has announced its star-studded and diverse 2021-22 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances to be offered throughout the season. Gustavo Dudamel conducts Golda Schultz in Strauss’ Four Last Songs. The program also includes the composer’s Death and Transfiguration and Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night. Performance Dates: Oct. 14-17, 2021 Gustavo Dudamel will conduct {…}
(Credit: Opera Australia official website) The Baluarte auditorium in Pamplona has announced a second cast change for its upcoming semi-staged performances of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” The Spanish opera house announced that tenor Walter Fraccaro will take over the role of Des Grieux, replacing Roberto Aronica. This marks the second high-profile replacement after soprano Ainhoa Arteta was forced to cancel due {…}
(Credits: Lars Andreas Kristiansen / Andrey Uspensky / Adam Ulrich / José Antonio López official website) The Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Sep. 19, 2020 at the Teatro Real de Madrid. The ensemble will replace the famed Mahler Chamber Orchestra, who is unable to travel due to Spain’s travel restrictions imposed by COVID-19. The {…}
(Credits: Lars Andreas Kristiansen / Andrey Uspensky / Adam Ulrich / José Antonio López official website) La Sinfónica de Galicia will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on Sep. 18, 2020, as a tribute to the civil society faced with COVID-19 pandemic. The concert will take place at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. The initial plan by the {…}
The Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain has announced its 2020-21 season. The season will include 15 performances with a number of vocal concerts. Here is a local of the operatic and vocal concerts in the season. The season opens with an all-Mahler program that includes the composer’s “Rückert Lieder” performed by José Antonio López and Symphony No. 10. The concert {…}
The Sinfonia Nacional de Galicia has announced its 2019-20 season. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the vocal or opera-related concerts. Here is a look: The Compania Nacional is set to present “Carmen” in a ballet version using the music of Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin. Performance Dates: Nov. 22 & 23, 2020 Gian Battista Pergolesi/Johann {…}