The Teatro Villamarta de Jerez has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Manuel Penella’s “Don Gil de Alcala” will be directed by Emilio Sagi and conducted by Cecilia Bercovich. The cast will include Marc Sala, Sofia Esparza, Manuel de Diego, Zayra Ruiz, Carlos Daza, and Ruben Amoretti. Performance Dates: Nov. 21 & 23, 2025 Manuel García’s “I Tre Gobbi” will star {…}
The Festival de Ópera de Sevilla has announced its 2025 season, which will take place between September 25 and October 12, 2025. Opera Manuel Garcia’s “Il califfo di Bagdad” will be directed by Guillermo Amaya and conducted by Alessandro D’Agostini. Juan de Dios Mateos, Leonor Bonilla, Pepe Hannan, Alicia Naranjo, Nerea Berraondo, and Eugenio Maria Degiacomi star. Performance Dates: Sept. 25 & {…}
The Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Alicia Naranjo performs in an all-Mahler program with conductor Irene Delgado-Jiménez. Performance Date: Sept. 4, 2025 Lucas Macías conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Emőke Baráth and Emily D’Angelo. Performance Dates: Sept. 11 & 12, 2025 Leonor Bonilla joins conductor Teresa {…}
(Photo Credit: ©Gianni Cravedi) Emanuel Schikaneder, a prolific stage comedian, singer, and skilled impresario, proposed to Mozart the creation of a new singspiel–a form of German musical theater that alternates spoken dialogue without musical accompaniment–in response to the enduring hegemony of Italian opera, which had long dominated European stages. The entrepreneur’s brilliant insight, as highlighted by Mattia Marino Merlo in {…}
Spain’s Orquesta de Córdoba has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Enrique Parra and Alfonso Mujica lead Puccini’s “Messa di Gloria.” The program also includes music by Resphigi. Salvador Vázquez conducts. Performance Dates: Dec. 12 & 13, 2024 Leonor Bonilla and Salvador Vázquez headline a Christmas concert that includes music by Rossini, Gound, Strauss {…}
The ABAO Bilbao Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail.” The performances, which will take place between Jan. 20 and 29, 2024 at the Euskalduna Bilbao, will star Jessica Pratt in the role of Kostanze, Moisés Marín as Belmonte, Leonor Bonilla as Blonde, Mikeldi Atxalandabaso as Pedrillo, Wojtek Gierlach as Osmin, and Wolfgang Vater as Selim. {…}
The Gobierno de Aragón in Spain has announced the 2024 Lírica and Danza season. Originally scheduled for 2023, the new season will feature three operas. The first work will be “El Hilo Rojo” which will be presented by Tanzensemble Pfalztheater Kaiserlauten at the Palacio de Congresos de Zaragoza. Performance Date: Jan. 27, 2024 Bernstein’s “West Side Story” will follow at {…}
Spain’s Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE has announced its 2023-24 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Christoph König opens the season with music by Arriaga, Mozart, and Bruckner. The soloists are Marina Monzó, Štěpánka Pučálková, Airam Hernández, and Damián del Castillo. Performance Dates: Oct. 5 & 6, 2023 Marc Albrecht and Ekaterina Antipova lead a performance of music {…}
The Teatro Municipale di Piacenza has announced its 2023-24 season. The season opens with Verdi’s “Otello” starring Gregory Kunde, Luca Micheletti, Antonio Mandrillo, and Francesca Dotto. Leonardo Sini conducts the production by Italo Nunziata. Performance Dates: Dec. 11-17, 2023 Carmela Remigio sings the title role of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” alongside Arianna Vendittelli, Luigi De Donato, Ruzil Gatin, and Paola Gardina. Diego Fasolis conducts the {…}
The Teatro Cervantes in Malaga has announced its 2023-24 season featuring four operatic performances. Vives’ “Doña Francisquita“ will star María José Moreno, Mónica Redondo, Milagros Martín, Lucía Millán, Ismael Jordi, Santos Ariño, Jesús Álvarez, and Antonio Torres. Francisco López directs and José María Moreno conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 29 & Oct. 1, 2023 Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro“ will star Pablo {…}
Soprano Leonor Bonilla has joined the roster of GoDirect Management. Bonilla is a rising star who has won such competitions as the Tenor Viñas and Alfredo Kraus. She has also won such awards as the Best Revelation and Best Zarzuela singer at the Opera XXI and Teatro de la Zarzuela. She is a principal singer at the Teatro Real de {…}