The Franz Schubert Filharmonia has announced its 2024-25 season, which will continue at the Palau de la Música Catalana. There will be one vocal performance in the season. Here is a look. Núria Rial and José Antonio López lead a program featuring the Fauré Requiem. The program also includes music by Cherubini, Faure, and Farrenc and is conducted by Laurence {…}
The Festival Castell de Perelada has announced its 2023 summer festival. The season opens with Freddie De Tommaso performing Verdi alongside Audrey Sain-Gil. Performance Date: July 28, 2023 Diana Damrau and Nicola Teste perform music by Ponchielli, Chopin, Bellini, Thomas, Strauss, Donizetti, and more. Helmut Deutsch accompanies on piano. Performance Date: July 29, 2023 Nuria Rial pays tribute to Victoria {…}
The Teatro de la Zarzuela has announced its 2022-23 season. Zarzuela The season opens with “La Celestina” by Felip Pedrell. The concert version will star Ketevan Kemoklidze, Miren Urbieta Vega, Andeka Gorrotxategi, Juan Jesus Rodriguez, Simon Orfila, and Sofia Esparza. Guillermo García Calvo conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 9 & 11, 2022 Barbieri’s “Pan y toros” will be conducted by Guillermo García {…}
(Credit: Merce Rial) The Palau de La Música València has announced an upcoming concert by the Spanish soprano Núria Rial scheduled for Dec. 22, 2021 at the Teatro Principal. Rial will be joined onstage by tenor Martin Mitterrutzner. Rial and Mitterrutzner will perform arias for soprano and tenor from operas by Mozart and Rossini. In the remainder of the concert, {…}
Spain’s Palau de la Música de Valencia has announced its 2021-22 season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on vocal performances. The Teatro Principal will present Nuria Rial and Martin Mitterrutzner in a program of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and J. Strauss. Alexander Liebreich conducts. Performance Date: Dec. 22, 2021 Anja Kampe, Norbert Ernst and Ain Anger perform {…}
Spain’s Orquesta Ciudad de Granada has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Lucas Macias conducts Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’été” with Catriona Morison. The program also includes music by Takemitsu. Performance Dates: Oct. 1 & 2, 2021 Joseph Swensen conducts a program of Bizet, Debussy, and Faure. Kathleen Balfe and the Coro {…}
The Festival de Granada, Spain has announced that Nuria Rial will replace Anna Caterina Antonacci in a concert on July 8, 2021. The festival announced that Anna Caterina Antonacci, who was scheduled to perform a concert at Patio de los Inocentes del Hospital Real, will be unable after being in contact with a positive COVID-19 case. As a result, Caterina {…}
The Grand Théâtre de Genève has announced its 2021-22 season with a variety of programs including opera, recitals and ballet as well as family events. For the purposes of this article, we will only focus on the opera and recitals. Opera Leonardo Marino and Pablo Jakob’s “Huit Minutes” will make its world premiere in François Renou’s production. The new opera will {…}
(Credits: Merce Rial / Sara Schöngen / Marco Borggreve) The Konzerthaus Berlin has announced that it will reopen its doors for live audiences in June 2021. For the purpose of this article we will focus only on vocal performances. Spanish soprano Núria Rial will perform Joseph Haydn’s “Berenice che fai” and Mahler‘s Symphony No. 4 alongside conductor Iván Fischer. Performance {…}
The Auditori de Barcelona has announced its 2021-22 season featuring a variety of music and soloists from around the world. Here is a look at the vocal highlights. Juliet Fraser joins the Plus-Minus Ensemble for music by Cassandra Miller. Performance Date: Sept. 30, 2021 Maria Hinojosa and Anna Alàs join Francisco Poyato, Anna Crexells, and the SEED Ensemble for songs {…}
The Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona has announced a star-studded 2021-22 season with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, soloists, and choruses. Here is a look at the vocal and choral performances. The Cor Lieder Càmera and Josep Vila i Casañasperformworksby Bach, Brahms, Duruflé, Gasull, Morera, Ollé, Vila i Casañas, and Vaughan-Williams. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2021 Joyce {…}