Wolf Trap has announced its 2026 season which will include an Opera and Classical music program. Opera Rossini’s “La Cenerentola“ will be conducted by Louis Lohraseb and Joel Ivany. Angela Yam, Sophia Maekawa, Cumhur Görgün, Ziniu Zhao, Angel Gomez, and Korin Thomas-Smith star. Performance Dates: June 18, 21, 25, and 27, 2026; The Barns at Wolf Trap Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin“ will {…}
(Photo credit: Morgan Horell) Soprano Lydia Grindatto has won first place in the 2025 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition. Grindatto took home the top prize of $15,000. Coming in second place was tenor Ben Reisinger, along with mezzo-soprano Madeleine Lyon in third, baritone Paul Jang fourth, and soprano Sunwoo Park in fifth. Bass Michael Mensha took home the Encouragement {…}
The Gerda Lissner Foundation has announced that it will present a special concert in association with The Liederkranz Foundation. Set for April 30, 2025, the showcase will feature the winners of the Lieder / Song and International Vocal Competitions in 2024 and 2025. Participants include Magdalena Kuzma, Giorgi Guliashvili, Tatev Baroyan, Sofia Gotch, Shelén Huges, Amanda Batista, Erin Wagner, Michael {…}
The 53rd George and Nora London Foundation Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers has announced the winners. A total of $74,000 was Of 12 finalists, five were named winners with a prize of $12,000 each. The remaining seven singers were awarded the George London Encouragement Awards of $2,000 each. The winners included tenor Alec Carlson, soprano Shelén Hughes, {…}
(Photo credit: Marcin Zurawicz) The Kosciuszko Foundation has announced the winners of its 2024 Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition. Taking home first place was Polish-American soprano Magdalena Kuźma. She takes home $8,000 and a special performance award offered by the Gerda Lissner Foundation and the Connecticut Lyric Opera. The soprano made her mainstage Met Opera debut in 2023 as Giannetta {…}
Magdalena Kuźma is the winner of the 2024 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition. The soprano, who is a graduate of Yale University and is set to perform at the Aspen Music Festival, performed “Ha! Dzieciątko nam umiera” from Moniuszko’s “Halka” and “Deh vieni, non tardar” from “Le nozze di Figaro” on her way to a $15,000 first-place grant. “It is such {…}
Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera This year’s season opener of the Met’s “The Magic Flute,” on December 8th, 2023, was another high-energy holiday extravaganza. The family-friendly annual production by Julie Taymor was a familiar favorite to many; its rich fantasy world of magical symbolism dazzled and delivered. However, what set the bar for this year’s production apart from others, {…}
(Credit: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 2023-24 members of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This year the roster includes soprano Amanda Batista, bass-baritone Le Bu, tenor Matthew Cairns, mezzo-soprano Maire Therese Carmack, baritone Eleomar Cuello, soprano Juliana Grigoryan, mezzo-soprano Elmina Hasan, soprano Magdalena Kuźma, coach/pianist Juan José Lázaro, soprano Brittany Olivia Logan, tenor Daniel O’Hearn, tenor Jonghyun Park, baritone Daniel Rich, coach/pianist Deborah Robertson, {…}
On April 13, 2023, the Metropolitan Opera opened its April run of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.” Bartlett Sher’s 2012 production was met with new life thanks to a number of stunning debuts from the cast. The staging itself presents a view of Italy during unification which neither rebukes nor flatters the historical context of the work, leaving an authentic, if understated, {…}