(Photo credit: Suzanne Vinnik) Palm Beach Opera has announced its 2025 season. The season opens with Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette,” under the baton of Palm Beach Opera’s Ari Rifkin Music Director, David Stern. The title roles will be shared across performances. Friday/Sunday Long Long performs Romé alongside Amina Edris as Juliette. Eric Taylor and Lydia Grindatto will each make their {…}
(Credit: Fotos von Bernd Uhlig, Kontakt: [email protected]) Often after watching a perplexing rendition of “Das Rheingold“, critics and public alike might proclaim: “Let’s see what will happen tomorrow night. Let us hold our judgement until then, to see where all of this is going.” And then, Herheim’s “Die Walküre” began, proving to be the worst of the cycle. The First {…}
(Photo by Bernd Uhlig) I’m back in Berlin, a city I favor and enjoy so much, ready for yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper, a large, comfortable 1850-seat theatre boldly designed in the Modernist style and simply ideal for large-scale productions. And none comes much larger than those penned by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner Therefore, with {…}
The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced a cast change for the production of “Il Trittico.” The company noted that American contralto Lauren Decker will take over the role of La Zia Principessa in “Suor Angelica” on Dec. 9 and 14, 2023. Decker is an American mezzo-soprano who was a quarterfinalist at the 2019 Operalia Competition in Prague and recently received the {…}
The Toledo Opera has announced its 2022-23 Season. The company will return to Valentine Theatre and will celebrate its 64th season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Maestro Geoffrey McDonald conducts the double bill with stage director Keturah Stickann helming. “Suor Angelica” stars soprano Jill Gardner as Angelica and contralto Lauren Decker as the Principessa while {…}
The Aspen Music Festival and School has announced a series of concerts that will be livestreamed around the world. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be strictly on operatic and vocal performances. First up will be a presentation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Robert Spano and starring Jeanine De Bique, Lauren Decker, Lawrence Brownlee, and Will {…}
(Credit: Simon Pauly / David Lack) The Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is set to present “Rising Stars in Concert” on Jan. 19, 2020. The concert will feature music of Bellini, Berlioz, Bizet, Debussy, Donizetti, Rossini, R. Strauss, and Verdi, among others, with the aim of spotlighting the artists of the 2019-20 Ryan Opera Center Ensemble. These artists {…}