Elīna Garanča, Cecilia Bartoli & Thomas Blondelle Lead Lucerne Festival’s 2025 Summer Seson

The Lucerne Festival has announced its 2025 summer season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly perform Mahler with Elīna Garanča. Performance Date: August 15, 2025 The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and Keri-Lynn Wilson perform Strauss and Beethoven. Rachel Willis-Sørensen is the guest soloist. Performance Date: August 18, 2025 Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di {…}

Nov 6, 2024

Teatro Real 2024-25 Review: Sondra Radvanovsky & Piotr Beczala in Concert

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczala presented their recital on November 3rd (which is touring worldwide) at the Teatro Real. Before the beginning, there was a one-minute standing of silence in sympathy to the victims in the aftermath of the storm Dana which destroyed several locations in the Valencia area (in the name of all the artistic and technical {…}

Sep 9, 2024

Keri-Lynn Wilson Makes History as Second-Ever Music Director of Kyiv Camerata

Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson has been named to the position of music director of the Kyiv Camerata. She makes history as only the second music director in the organization’s 50-year history. The only other music director was Valery Matyukhin, who established the ensemble in 1977 and led it until his death in 2023. The ensemble has championed and commissioned Ukrainian works {…}

Aug 27, 2024

Keri-Lynn Wilson Receives Major Ukrainian Honor

(Credit: Keri-Lynn Wilson Twitter) Keri-Lynn Wilson has been awarded the Order of Princess Olga. The Ukrainian-Canadian conductor took to social media to announce the news and said, “I’m honored to have been awarded the Order of Princess Olga by President Zelensky on August 23rd for my work supporting Ukraine. Of course, the greatest honor of all will be achieved when {…}

Aug 8, 2024

Baltic Opera Festival 2024 Review: Turandot

(Photo: Krzysztof Mystkowski) What do you expect to find in a Polish forest? Chanterelles or blueberries, deer or foxes perhaps. But opera? That’s how it is in the forest of the seaside resort of Sopot, not far from Gdansk, on the shores of the Baltic Sea. And has been since 1909! Not continuously, but over and over, so much so {…}

May 1, 2024

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Announces Beethoven Ninth Freedom Tour

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, under conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson will head back on tour this summer. The ensemble will present Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at concert halls across Europe with amendments to reflect the geopolitical moment. “The decision to sing Schiller’s great text for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Ukrainian was an important artistic and wider cultural statement for us,” Wilson said in {…}

Oct 26, 2022

Anna Netrebko’s Management Speaks Out Regarding AP Corrections on Keri-Lynn Wilson’s Teatro Colon Statements

Following Keri-Lynn Wilson’s statements to the associated press regarding her upcoming performances at the Teatro Colon, Anna Netrebko’s management is speaking out. In an interview with the Associated Press, Wilson said that she had refused to perform with Netrebko because of the singer’s refusal to condemn Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine. The interview also noted that Wilson would {…}

Oct 9, 2022

Keri-Lynn WIlson Addresses ‘Tosca’ Performances at the Teatro Colon

Keri-Lynn Wilson did not want to conduct Anna Netrebko at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. The conductor, who was originally set to conduct the soprano in a production of “Tosca” told she the AP, “I said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t perform with Ms. Netrebko.” The theater then said, “‘Don’t worry, she’s bringing her own conductor.’ So it was fine. {…}

Jul 21, 2022

Ukranian Freedom Orchestra Arrives in Poland

The Polish National Opera has announced that the 74 musicians that make up the newly-established Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra have arrived at the Polish National Opera, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. The orchestra will take up a 10-day artistic residency that will conclude with the inaugural concert of its concert tour. In a joint statement, Peter Gelb, the General Manager of the {…}

Jun 28, 2022

Keri-Lynn Wilson Joins Centre Stage Artist Management

(Credit: Olivia Kahler) Keri-Lynn Wilson has joined Centre Stage Artist Management for General Management. Wilson is an international conductor whose career spans over 20 years and has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks as well as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Bolshoi Theatre, and the Wiener Staatsoper. This summer Wilson {…}

May 10, 2022

Deutsche Oper Berlin Announces Conductor Change for ‘Madama Butterfly’

The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced a conductor change for its production of “Madama Butterfly.” The company noted that Keri-Lynn Wilson will lead the opera on May 21, 25, and 29, 2022. Wilson is a well-known conductor who has performed at the Arena di Verona, Canadian Opera Company, Bolshoi Theatre, Washington National Opera, Teatro dell’opera di Roma, Wiener Staatsoper, and {…}