The Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the Opera productions. The season opens with Schumann’s “Genoveva” with Lukas Beikircher conducting and Johannes Reitmeier directing. Premiere Date: Sept. 24, 2022 Tommaso Turchetta conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” with Thilo Reinhardt directing. Premiere Date: Oct. 1, 2022 Hansjörg Sofka conducts Jason Robert Brown’s “Songs for a New {…}
Toledo Opera will present Verdi’s “La Traviata” in its return to the Valentine Theatre. The opera will be presented for the first time in 10 years and will be showcased on April 22 & 24. Toledo Opera will also host a free Pre-Opera Talk one hour before each show in the Grand Lobby of the Valentine Theatre. “La Traviata” will {…}
Toledo Opera is set to host “Sempre Libera: Finding Freedom and Feminism in ‘La Traviata’” on April 12, 2022. The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Angela Fitzpatrick, director of the Catherine S. Eberly Center for Women at The University of Toledo, with such panelists as Dr. Naomi André – Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, {…}
(Credit: https://www.myrtopapatanasiu.com/gallery/portrait/) The Lugano Arte e Culturala is set to open Verdi’s “la Traviata.” The production, which is set to be presented from Sept. 2 to 8, 2022, will be conducted by Maestro Markus Poschner and directed by Carmelo Rifici. The production will star Myrtò Papatanasiu as Violetta Valéry, Airam Hernández as Alfredo Germont, Giovanni Meoni as Giorgio Germont, Sofya {…}
(Credit: Todd Rosenberg) The Teatro San Carlo has announced a cast change for its production of “La Traviata.” The company said, “We inform our audience that Rosa Feola, due to her pregnancy, will be replaced in the role of Violetta by Claudia Pavone for the performances of ‘La Traviata’ scheduled in July 2022.” Pavone is well-known for her interpretation of {…}
Toledo Opera is set to present “Get Into the Spirit of Opera” on March 24, 2022. The celebratory event aims to spotlight the upcoming opening of “La Traviata,” which is set to open on April 22, 2022. “Toledo Opera is excited to be producing a new opera after several months of hiatus following the postponement of ‘Blue’ in February. We are especially {…}
The Canadian Opera Company is set to showcase Verdi’s “La Traviata” starting on April 23, 2022. The production will feature Amina Edris, Matthew Polenzani, Simone Piazzola, Jamie Groote, Jonah Spungin, Gregory Dahl, Midori Marsh, and Vartan Gabrielian. The creative team will include conductor Johannes Debus, director Arin Arbus, set designer Riccardo Hernández, puppet and costume designer Cait O’Connor, lighting designer {…}
(Credit: Elena Cherkashyna) The Royal Opera House is set to present a live broadcast of “La Traviata” on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. The opera, which was directed by Richard Eyre, will star Pretty Yende as Violetta with Stephen Costello taking on the role of Alfredo. Rounding out the trio will be Dimitri Platanias as Germont. Other cast members include Kseniia {…}
Toledo Opera is accepting applications for first-time opera attendees to be guest critics for the company’s “View Then Voice” focus groups. If chosen, attendees would receive two tickets to the final dress rehearsal of the company’s “La Traviata” on April 20, 2022. Following that, participants would come together for a focus group session at the ProMedica Ebeid Center. The company {…}
(Credit: Gerard Collett) Theater St. Gallen is set to showcase Verdi’s “La Traviata” starting on March 19, 2022. The showcase, which will be presented in the UMIBAU venue, will be directed by Nina Russi who has no intention of setting the opera in its original 19th-century milieu. Instead, she will present the opera in a newer time period noting in {…}
“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features “Mes Frères et {…}