Arts Empowering Life will present an “Opera Gala” at the Performing Arts Center in Brewster, MA on August 10 and 11, 2024. The showcase will feature excerpts from “The Barber of Seville,” “Don Carlo,” “They Merry Widow,” “Carmen,” “Tannhäuser,” “Pagliacci,” “Serse,” “Lakmé,” “The Magic Flute,” “La Traviata,” “Rigoletto,” and “Turandot.” Soloists on the program include Andrew Nolen, David Adam Moore, {…}
The Washington Chorus has announced its 2024-25 season. Dr. Eugene Rogers conducts Morris Robinson in music by Jessie Montgomery, Aaron Copland, and Carlos Simon/Dan Harder. rs. Performance Dates: Sept. 14, 2024 Dr. Eugene Rogers conducts Suzzette Ortiz. Performance Dates: Dec. 14-22, 2024 Dr. Eugene Rogers conducts Damian Norfleet and Monique Holmes-Spells in music by Leonard Bernstein, Nkeiru Okoye, Eugene Rogers, {…}
The Viennese Opera Ball in New York City is set to return on May 10, 2024, at the Plaza Hotel with several opera stars. This year the event will include American tenor Limmie Pulliam, American baritone and Grammy Award Winner Lucas Meachem, who will perform courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera, American soprano and Grammy Award Winner Leah Crocetto, and opera {…}
The Arizona Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Arizona Opera’s new “Beyond Downtown” program, the newest evolution of the company’s McDougall RED Series, which will bring operatic performances throughout Arizona, reaching beyond the walls of the theaters in which the company typically performs. Performance Dates: TBD Caitlin Gotimer, SeokJong Baek, Benjamin Taylor, and Emma Marhefka perform {…}
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montreal has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Bruckner’s “Te Deum” with Latonia Moore, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Limmie Pulliam, and Ryan Speedo Green. The program also includes Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 and Balfour’s Premiere for choir and orchestra. Performance Dates: Sept. 22, 2024 Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Candian soloists in Beethoven’s Symphony {…}
The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 2024-25 Season. Here are the vocal performances. Klaus Mäkelä and Jennifer Johnston perform Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. Performance Dates: Oct. 17-19, 2024 Franz Welser-Möst conducts Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and a new work by Bernd Richard Deutsch. Limmie Pulliam and Iurii Samoilov are the soloists Performance Dates: Nov. 21 -23, 2025 Fabio {…}
Welcome back for this week’s edition of the CD and DVD releases on offer in the opera world. This week is particularly crowded with releases of Maria Callas by Warner Classics to celebrate her centennial. There are also a number of debut albums as well as the second album to one of the biggest rising tenors of his generation. Audiences {…}
Credit: Wade Caldwell Master Chorale of South Florida has unveiled its 2023-24 schedule featuring music by Fauré, Beethoven, and Mozart. The season opens with Fauré’s Requiem, which will be preceded by Joshua Rist’s powerful “Invictus” and followed by Joel Thompson’s “Seven Last Words of the Unarmed,” an emotional contemporary work based on the final words of Black Americans killed by {…}
The Florida Grand Opera has announced its 2023-24 season with three renowned operas. The season opens with Verdi’s timeless classic “La Traviata.” The opera will star Cecilia Violetta López, Pavel Petrov, and Troy Cook. Chía Patiño directs and Joe Illick conducts. Performance Dates: Nov. 11 – Dec. 2, 2023 The second opera of the season will be Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci.” It {…}
The Madison Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the three productions. Michelle Johnson sings the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca“ with Limmie Pulliam as Cavaradossi and Craig Irvin as Scarpia. John DeMain conducts the production by Frances Rabalais. Performance Dates: Nov. 3 & 5, 2023 Joseph Bologne’s “The Anonymous Lovers” will star Keely Futterer, David Blalock, and Yazid Gray. {…}
The New World Symphony has announced its 2023-24 season, which will be the first by Artistic Director Stéphane Denève. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. Denève will lead music by Prokofiev, Lieberson, and James Lee III. Mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor performs. Performance Dates: Oct. 14 & 15, 2023 Mezzo-soprano Katalin Károlyi headlines a {…}