Lise Davidsen, Jonas Kaufmann, Angel Blue, Aigul Akhmetshina & Bradley Cooper Lead Metropolitan Opera’s Summer HD Festival

The Metropolitan Opera has announced its annual Summer HD Festival, which will return to Lincoln Center Plaza. The festival will run between August 22 and September 1. THE 2025 MET SUMMER HD FESTIVAL SCHEDULE The festival opens with “Maestro” starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan. The Academy Award–nominated biopic tells the story of the legendary American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein {…}

Jun 23, 2025

Piotr Beczała, Lise Davidsen, & Freddie De Tommaso Perform in the 2025-26 Season at BroadStage

Los Angeles’s BroadStage announces its 2025-26 season. This article only features classical vocal works. First up is the GRAMMY® Award-winning Los Angeles Master Chorale presents “English Cathedral Christmas.” Performance Date: December 13, 2025 The Celebrity Opera Series welcomes the return of famed tenor Piotr Beczała. Performance Date: December 19, 2025 Lise Davidsen and Freddie De Tommaso close out the season {…}

Jun 18, 2025

Lise Davidsen, Nadine Sierra, Sara Banch, Bruno de Sa & Christiane Karg Lead Auditori de Girona’s 2025-26 Season

Spain’s Auditori de Girona has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. Sara Blanch and Vanessa García Diepa perform Donizetti, Rossini, Bellin, Tosti, De Curtis, and Mazzucchi e Di Capua. Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2025 Cor Maragall will perform music by Antonio Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, Enric Morera, and Duke Ellington. {…}

May 29, 2025

Lise Davidsen & Pretty Yende Among 2025 Royal Academy of Music Honorees

The Royal Academy of Music has announced the 2025 honors. The Academy noted that each year it celebrates the contribution of today’s leading musicians, including performers, composers, educators and artists. The list of honorees includes a range of distinguished people across the profession. Among the honorees this year is pioneering musician, producer, and visual artist Brian Eno, who will receive {…}

May 20, 2025

CD Review: Decca’s ‘Der fliegende Holländer’

Drawn from two live performances in 2024, the Decca release of “The Flying Dutchman” arrives with no small sense of occasion. Its cast alone—Lise Davidsen, Gerald Finley, Stanislas de Barbeyrac—promises one of the most congenial pairings in recent memory. “The Flying Dutchman” has always occupied a somewhat ambivalent place in the Wagnerian discography: too early to be “Tristan,” too compact {…}

May 12, 2025

Lise Davidsen, Quinn Kelsey, Marigona Qerkezi, Gevorg Hakobyan & Santiago Ballerini Lead Royal Danish Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Royal Danish Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Daniele Squeo and Lukas Beikircher conduct Puccini’s “Tosca” with Francesca Tiburzi and Marigona Qerkezi sharing the title role. Matteo Lippi, Carlos Cardoso, Johan Reuter, and Daniel Luis de Vicente also star. Kasper Holten directs. Performance Dates: August 31, 2025-Jan. 24 2026 Evan Rogister conducts George Benjamin’s “Written on Skin” in a stage production by Katie Mitchell. Daniel {…}

Apr 21, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Lise Davidsen, Magdalena Kožená, Gerald Finley, Anita Hartig & Sonia Prina Lead CD/DVD Releases

Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, two of the most famous divas release new albums, both from important concert performances. There are also some world premiere recordings, a Puccini work, and a baroque video recording. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Deutsche Grammophon continues its joint label Verbier Festival Gold. {…}

Apr 4, 2025

Lise Davidsen Honored by Metropolitan Opera Club

Lise Davidsen has been named an honorary member of the Metropolitan Opera Club. The soprano took to social media and said, “So lovely to become an honorary member of the Metropolitan Opera Club when they invited me to one of their members’ evenings in March. Wonderful to meet you all, and thank you so much for having me.” The club {…}

Mar 6, 2025

Metropolitan Opera 2024-25 Review: Fidelio

(Credit: Karen Almond / Met Opera) A man speaks out against a tyrant and gets dragged off to jail. That’s at the core of the plot of “Fidelio.” Unsurprisingly, as the Met Opera was reviving Beethoven’s lone operatic work, this very script played out in a different theatrical arena – the U.S. Congress – hours after the “leader of the {…}

Mar 4, 2025

Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Fidelio’ Live in HD

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season will continue with Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” The production will be shown in more than 700 theaters nationwide on Saturday, March 15, 2025. Soprano Lise Davidsen sings the role of Leonore, a role she has sung to great acclaim at the Royal Opera House. She will be joined by David Butt Philip as Florestan, {…}

Feb 21, 2025

Decca Classics to Release Lise Davidsen’s ‘Der Fliegende Holländer’

On April 18, 2025, Decca Classics will release a new recording of “Der Fliegende Holländer,” marking the first full-length opera recording on the label from Lise Davidsen. The recording was captured live over two nights at the opera house in Oslo during the summer of 2024. The live recording of “Der fliegende Holländer” will also mark Davidsen’s only-ever performance as {…}