The Oper Leipzig has announced its 2020-21 season featuring four new productions, a Wagner festival, and the Ring Cycle. Here is a look at the productions for the season. Premieres Ulf Schirmer conducts Katharina Wagner’s new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” The cast includes Michael Weinius in the title role, Jennifer Holloway as Elsa, Kathrin Göring as Ortrud and Simon Neal {…}
(Credit: Jiyang Chen / Marco Borggreve) The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2020-21 season featuring seven new operatic productions and a number of revivals. Here is a look at the operatic productions. Premieres The first new production of the season will be Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell,” written by de Jouy and Bis. The new production by Georg Schmiedleitner will star Christoph {…}
The London Philharmonic has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of important soloists around the world. For this article we will highlight the vocal performances. The season opens with a program entitled Fantastic Symphony with Edward Gardner leading a program of works by Tchaikovsky, Lutosławski, and Berlioz. Gerald Finley will be the featured soloist. Performance Date: Sept. 23, 2020 Edward {…}
(Credit: Rosie Hardie) The Vienna State Opera will live stream Richard Strauss’ “Salome” on Jan. 24, 2020. Taking on the title role will be Lise Lindstrom with Waltraud Meier as her mother Herodias and Herwig Pecoraro as the villainous Herodes. As Jochanaan, audiences will see Michael Volle. Mikko Franck is set to conduct the production directed by Boleslaw Barlog. The {…}
(credit: Rosie Hardy) The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées has announced a cast change for its upcoming performance of R. Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The company announced that Lise Lindstrom will replace Amber Wagner in the role of the Dyer’s Wife. Lindstrom is a recognized soprano known for her interpretation of Turandot. The soprano has also performed the roles of Brunnhilde, {…}
(Credit: Simon Jay Price) The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced that it will be performing two complete Ring Cycles this winter under the direction of Vladimir Jurowski. The two cycles are set to take place between Jan. 25-31 and Feb. 5-10, 2021 at the Royal Festival Hall. The cycles will be a culmination of a project that initiated back in {…}
(Credit: Teatro Regio di Torino/Royal Opera/Bilbao Opera This weekend is filled with new productions, season openings, role debuts and some of operas greatest masterpieces. Lolita – Prague State Opera, Czech Republic Rodion Shchedrin’s new opera gets another performance at the Estates Theatre with Pelageya Kurennaya in the title role, as well as Petr Sokolov, Alexander Kravets, Daria Rositskaya, Michaela Zajmi, {…}
(Credit: © A. Bofill) Iréne Theorin will take over the role of Turandot on Oct. 16, 2019. The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona announced that due to illness Lise Lindstrom will not sing tonight’s performance of Puccini’s final work. Theorin opened the Liceu’s 2019-20 season in “Turandot” and performed the title role yesterday Oct. 15 in a performance that {…}
This week, a slew of rarely performed works are set for release, including live recordings and some world premieres. La Nonne Sanglante Gounod’s rarely performed work gets a release from the Opera Comique. The new release, by Naxos, stars Vannina Santoni, Marion Lebègue, and Michael Spyres. Laurence Equilbey conducts the Insula Orchestra in David Bobee’s production from 2018. Jane Eyre Louis Karchin’s {…}
Lise Lindstrom has announced that she will sing the role of Brünnhilde in Wagner’s “Siegfried” at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The soprano announced via social media that she would be jumping in for a colleague this Sunday Feb. 3, 2019 and the following weekend. She said, “I am thrilled to be asked to sing Brünnhilde in Duisburg this Sunday and {…}
The Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2019-20 season which includes seven operas, including five new productions, one world premiere, and one company premiere. The season kicks off with Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in a new production by Tomer Zvulun. The famed Italian work will feature Brian Mulligan in the title role and Mané Galoyan and Arturo Chacón-Cruz as Gilda and the {…}