It was a Jonas Kaufmann special. At least in Munich. At least in Kaufmann’s home opera house. The place was packed. The outfits were designer specials and tee shirts, “Herren,” even in highly colorful shorts, and “Damen,” in extravagant lamé skirts with high slits and gilded shoes. Kaufmann, and Helmut Deutsch, reknowned pianist and accompanist, walked onto the stage in {…}
(Photo credit: Richard Termine) The Juilliard School is set to present “Juilliard Songfest” on March 28, 2024. The showcase will feature soprano Abla Benzemroun, soprano Song Hee Lee, mezzo-soprano Tivoli Treloar, soprano Jasmin Ward, and bass-baritone Jared Werlein. Brian Zeger accompanies the performers. The first part of the program, entitled “LOVE,” features music by Liszt, Mahler, and Wagner. Following an {…}
The University Musical Society at the University of Michigan is set to present Renée Fleming and Inon Barnatan in concert. The recital, which is set to take place on Sept. 28, 2023 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, will be based around the soprano’s 2023 Grammy Award-winning recording “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene.” The showcase will feature music by Caroline {…}
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama has announced their 2023 season of summer events. Among the events is “Sāvitri & Blond Eckbert,” a double bill of chamber operas that come from opposite ends of the 20th century. The former, by Holst, is based on a Sanskrit epic, and explore themes of love and devotion in the face of death, with {…}
(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical) Famed tenor Jonas Kaufmann will give a recital at Teatro Real de Madrid on Jan. 14, 2021. For this occasion, Kaufmann will be accompanied by his long-term collaborator, pianist Helmut Deutsch. The program for the concert includes music by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Dvořák, among others. The {…}
(Credit: Timothy White for Decca) Wearing a shiny taupe gown that reflected minimized images of the lights above, soprano Renée Fleming and pianist Gerald Martin Moore entered to applause that showed they have fans in this desert city. They opened with a Valentine befitting February 14th: George Frideric Handel’s enticing “Bel Piacere è Godere.” Fleming followed its fast, tricky coloratura {…}
The Brooklyn Art Song Society will open its 10th season with “Roma” at the Brooklyn Historical Society on Oct. 4, 2019. The performance will feature soprano Tami Petter, mezzo-soprano Kristin Gornstein, baritone Michael Kelly, and violinist Stanichka Dimitrova. Pianists Michael Brofman and Nana Shi will accompany at the piano. The central theme of the showcase will be the “Gypsy” culture {…}
Joyce El-Khoury is quickly rising the ranks of the opera world for her versatility and artistry. She has also gained a reputation for bringing newly discovered and rarely performed works to life, collaborating with Opera Rara, and performing them with numerous important companies. She has also performed in many of the great theaters in the world bringing an immense repertoire. {…}
Vincenzo Bellini isn’t the most revolutionary of opera composers. In fact, his work is rather simple and his operas, most of them featuring questionable libretti, are not necessarily the most complex dramatic works (with the exception of “Norma”). And yet, the composer, born on Nov. 3, 1801, is among the most beloved in the opera world and even earned the {…}
Franz Liszt is not a composer that you would usually associate with opera. In fact, the composer only completed one such work, his “Don Sanche, ou Le château de l’amour.” That work was lost for a long time before it was rediscovered in 1903 and given its first modern performance 74 years later. Now another Liszt opera is getting a {…}
