The George and Nora London Foundation Competition has released updates regarding the 2025 final competition. This year, the final round of the competition for American and Canadian opera singers will be open to the public and will be made available via live stream. A dozen competitors will perform in the final round with pianist Lachlan Glen before a panel of {…}
(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}
The 2024-25 season of the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers will present the 53rd edition of the foundation’s annual competition. The final round of the competition, which is open to the public, takes place on Feb. 21, 2025, at the Morgan Library and Museum. Approximately a dozen singers compete for five George London Awards of $12,000 each. Those {…}
The Boston Baroque has announced its 2024-25 season. Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” is set to start Hera Hyesang Park, Paul Appleby, and Nicholas Newton. Performance Dates: Oct. 4 & 5, 2024 Handel’s “Messiah” will include Maya Kherani, Avery Amereau, Omar Najmi, and Jesse Blumberg, Performance Dates: Dec 7 & 8, 2024 Erin Morley performs a program of Beethoven and Mozart. Performance {…}
Clarion is set to present “Rachmaninoff @ 150: Songs and Romances” on Nov. 7, 2023. The showcase will feature baritone Aleksey Bogdanov, mezzo-soprano Megan Moore, and pianists Craig Ketter and Brian Zeger at the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City. Among the works on offer are selected songs and romances as well as Piano Works for Four Hands, {…}
The Orchestra Now has unveiled its 2023-24 season. “As we approach the ninth successful season of TŌN, I am exceedingly proud of all we have accomplished since the Orchestra was launched in 2015,” said Music Director Leon Botstein in an official press statement issued by the company. “I am delighted to continue that impressive record in the 2023-24 season with {…}
The San Diego Opera has announced its 2023-24 season. Productions The season opens with Javier Martinez and Leonard Foglia’s “El Milagro del Recuerdo.” The production will star Sishel Claverie, Vanessa Alonzo, Claudia Chapa, Héctor Vásquez, and Guadalupe Paz. Leonard Foglia directs. Performance Dates: Dec. 1 & 3, 2023 Germán Enrique Alcántara, Alexander McKissick, Ethan Vincent, Tasha Koontz, and Megan Moore star in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Yves Abel conducts. {…}
The Berkshire Opera Festival is set to open its 2023 summer season with “Breaking the Mold: Baroque, Bel Canto, and Beyond.” The concert will showcase arias and ensembles spanning 300 years, on July 22 at Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Audiences will get hear music that ranges from Händel to Heggie. The performance will feature a cast of some of BOF’s {…}
Young Concert Artists (YCA) revealed its 2023-2024 season, including debuts of four new artists in New York and a co-presentation with the New York Festival of Song. The season will feature YCA Auditions and a Winners Concert, both live-streamed, four noontime performances, and a grand finale at Carnegie Hall. Four YCA artists will also showcase their talent at the Kennedy {…}
The New York Festival of Songs has announced the lineup for the 2023-24 season. “100 Years of Broadway Love” is presented by soprano Kerrigan Bigelow, mezzo-soprano Sophia Baete, and baritone Shavon Lloyd, with Steven Blier as pianist following a weeklong residency in Orient, NY. Performance Dates: August 21-27, 2023 Kicking off its 36th season mainstage season is curators and co-pianists {…}
The Zenith Opera Competition has announced the winners of its 2023 edition. Taking home first prize was American singer mezzo Megan Moore. During the 2022-23 season, Moore was a cover at the Met Opera in “Dialogues des Carmélites” and was also covering at Opera Philadelphia in Rossini’s “Otello.” She also participated in the Operalia Competition in 2022. In second place {…}
