The Cincinnati Symphony has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances on offer. Larisa Martínez and Peter Dugan join Joshua Bell for an evening of Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Puccini, and more. Performance Date: Oct. 6, 2024 Marin Alsop conducts the May Festival Chorus in a Shostakovich and Bernstein program. Performance Dates: Nov. 16 & 17, 2024 {…}
(Photo credit: Natalie Miller) The official opening of the new Perelman Performing Arts Center NYC (PAC NYC) is on September 19th with performances including “Watch Night,” an opera opening on Nov 3-18, 2023, co-conceived, directed, and choreographed by Bill T. Jones, libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composed by Brooklyn born and bred artist Tamar-kali. Prior to this opening, OperaWire {…}
The 92nd Street Y, New York is set to present “Voice and the Violin” with violinist Joshua Bell and soprano Larisa Martinez. The evening is set to be presented on Oct. 20, 2022 at the Kaufmann Concert Hall. Bell, Martinez, and Peter Dugan will open the season with an array of arias, solos, and duets specially arranged for them. The concert {…}
The 92YNY has announced its 2022-23 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on classical vocal performances. The season kicks off with a concert featuring soprano Larisa Martinez in her company debut alongside violinist Joshua Bell. Peter Dugan performs at the piano. Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2022 Eric Owens and singers from Curtis Opera Theater, {…}
Puerto Rican soprano Larisa Martínez will perform with violinist Joshua Bell and the Philadelphia Orchestra in a program of duets. “Voice and Violin” is scheduled for July 29, 2022, at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and will feature a broad range of music from Berlioz to Bernstein. Conductor Michael Stern will be on the podium. The complete program comprises the {…}
Festival Napa Valley has unveiled its 2022 festival, which is set to take place between July 9-23, 2022. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal events. Kicking things off will be the Novack Concert for Kids starring the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. Performance Date: July 14, 2022 The Young People’s Chorus of {…}
Lincoln Center will present the world premiere performance of Georgia Shreve’s “Courageous Women of Antiquity” at Alice Tully Hall on April 26, 2022. Shreve’s work comprises two semi-operatic oratorios, one celebrating Lavinia, a woman who defied kings and threats of war, to marry her love, Aeneus, and the other, Anna Komnene, author of the “Alexiad,” a chronicle of her father’s {…}
Famed violinist Joshua Bell and soprano Larisa Martinez will appear in a special PBS performance on August 16, 2020. The program, entitled “Joshua Bell: At Home With Music,” will air at 7 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. CT and will be available to stream for free for two weeks thereafter. The program will center around a musical soirée of intimate performances from {…}
California Wine Country’s premiere music festival, Festival Napa Valley, will present “One Night, Many Voices,” a free, global, virtual concert featuring a star-studded line-up of performers, including Soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Michael Fabiano. The concert will take place on Saturday, July 25, 2020. The opera stars share top billing alongside violinist Joshua Bell, soprano Larisa Martínez, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the {…}
(Credit: Jonathon Tichler) The REACH has announced its “inclusive, multi-genre, multidisciplinary” 2019 Opening Festival, which marks its first-ever expansion to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. For the purpose of this article, we focus on opera-related events. The Festival’s “Opening Day” will “illustrate the breadth of experience that the REACH is designed to foster,” according to the {…}
Soprano Larisa Martinez will showcase the power of Latin American classic music during a performance on May 1, 2018. Entitled “FIESTA!” the concert will feature the noted soprano and four cellists as they traverse the musical landscape of Spain, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina. Among the pieces showcased will be Piazzolla’s tangos, traditional Spanish pieces from De Falla, a Zarzuela from {…}