Jessica Pratt, Carmen Giannattasio, Anastasia Bartoli & Juliana Grigoryan Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2025 Season

The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2025 season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” with Riccardo Frizza conducting a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio, Angelo Villari, and Claudio Sgura. Paul Curran directs. Another cast includes Ann Petersen, Amadi Lagha, and Gustavo Castillo. Performance Dates: Jan. 24-30, 2025 Jessica Pratt, Giovanni Sala, Marko Mimica, and Lucas Meachem lead Donizetti’s {…}

Jun 25, 2024

Iván Ayón Rivas, Maria Josè Siri, Erika Grimaldi, Piero Pretti & Olga Peretyatko Lead Teatro Carlo Felice’s 2024-25 Season

Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the operas and concerts. Opera The season will open with a double bill featuring the play “Giro di vite” by Henry James and Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw.” Davide Livermore directs the production with Riccardo Minasi at the podium. The cast for Britten will {…}

Feb 4, 2024

Ramón Vargas Leads Palacio de Bella Artes’ ‘Giovanna d’Arco’

The Palacio de Bellas Artes is set to present Verdi’s “Giovanna d’Arco.” The performance will be held on Feb. 11, 13, and 15, 2024, and will star tenor Ramón Vargas in his return to the Mexican theater, Karen Gardeazabal in the title role, and Mihai Damian. The production will also star Alejandro López and Alberto Galicia. Félix Krieger conducts. The {…}

Dec 21, 2021

Maria Josè Siri, Clémentine Margaine & Luca Micheletti Lead Teatro Filarmonico’s 2022 Season

The Teatro Filarmonico announced its 2022 season featuring several new productions and rarely performed works. Here is a look. The company will present Wolf-Ferrari’s “Il segreto di Susanna” and Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” in a double bill. Gianna Fratta conducts the new production by Federica Zagatti Wolf-Ferrari and Giorgia Guerra. Vittorio Prato and Lavinia Bini star in Wolf-Ferrari’s opera while Donata D’Annunzio {…}

Sep 20, 2021

Artist of the Week: Karen Gardeazabal

On Sept. 23, the Ópera de Bella Artes will open a new production of Graun’s rarely performed masterpiece “Montezuma.” It will be a chance for audiences to hear an early masterwork alongside some of Mexico’s prominent and rising stars. Among them will be Karen Gardeazabal, who will be making a role debut and her house debut. The Mexican soprano, who {…}

Sep 16, 2021

Karen Gardeazabal Headlines Bellas Artes’ ‘Montezuma’

Soprano Karen Gardeazabal is set to make her Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on Sept. 23, 2021. The soprano will sing the “Montezuma” by Carl Heinrich Graun under Iván López Reynoso. It will be the soprano’s return to her home country since her tour in 2019 with Javier Camarena where she sang in Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Guanajuato. In {…}

Sep 8, 2021

Ópera de Bellas Artes Announces 2021 Season

Mexico City’s Ópera de Bellas Artes has announced its 2021 season. The season which takes place in the Palacio de las Bellas Artes reopened with a gala of operatic selections and will be followed by Graun’s “Montezuma.” “Montezuma” will feature a cast that includes Guadalupe Paz in the title role, Karen Gardeazábal, María Caballero, Akemi Endo, Arisbé de la Barrera, {…}

Nov 4, 2019

Rebeka Lokar, Roberta Mantegna & Mattia Olivieri Highlight Macerata Opera Festival 2020 Slate

The Macerata Opera Festival has announced its 2020 program. This season the festival will showcase three popular operas with renown casts starting on July 17 through August 9, 2020. The festival opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta and directed by Valentina Carrasco. The production will star Rebeka Lokar in the title role, Piero Pretti as Cavaradossi, and Roberto {…}

Jun 21, 2018

Aleksandra Kurzak, Nino Machaidze & Carmen Giannattasio Headline Teatro San Carlo’s 2018-19 Season

The Teatro San Carlo has announced its 2018-19 season. The season will include some of the biggest stars in opera as well as some rare gems. Here is a look at what San Carlo will offer operagoers next season. Productions Riccardo Muti conducts the opening night with a new production by Chiara Muti of Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte.” Alessio Arduini, {…}

May 9, 2018

Plácido Domingo, Maria José Siri & Juan Diego Flórez Headline Royal Opera House Muscat’s 2018-19 Season

The Royal Opera House Muscat has announced its 2018-19 featuring 40 new programs and a total of 69 performances. The season will include some of the best conductors and singers in the world leading the world’s finest orchestras, the concentration of orchestral talent appearing at ROHM this season is impressive. Here is a look at the operatic and vocal events {…}

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