(Image Source: Official Website Opernhaus Zürich) Opernhaus Zürich has announced that it will start streaming operas on its official website starting on March 27, 2020. The service will last until June 1 with the company presenting operas between Fridays at 6 p.m. through Sunday at midnight. All works will be presented with subtitles in English, French, and German. “We now {…}
(Image Source: Opernhaus Zürich Official Website) Opernhaus Zürich has canceled its performances all the way through April 30, 2020. The company made the announcement via its official website with the following statement: “With immediate effect, the Zurich Opera House has to cancel all performances and events by April 30, 2020, due to the order imposed by the Federal Council as {…}
The Opernhaus Zurich has canceled the March 12 performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” The company announced that “Juan Diego Flórez canceled the 3 p.m. the performance of “La Bohème” tonight due to illness. Since we are unable to provide an adequate replacement in the short time available and in the current general crisis situation, this performance has unfortunately to be {…}
The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its 2020-21 season with 13 new productions and a number of international stars. Premiere Michael Volle sings the title role in a new production of Mussorgky’s “Boris Godunov” by Barrie Kosky. Lina Dambrauskaité, Irène Friedli, John Daszak, Konstantin Shushakov, Brindley Sherratt, Edgaras Montvidas, Oksana Volkova, Johannes Martin Kränzle, and Wenwei Zhang also star. Kirill Karabits {…}
Opernhaus Zürich and Grand Théâtre de Genève are set to go on with performances despite concerns over Coronavirus. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health orders on Friday stated that gatherings of more than 1,000 people were banned through at least March 15, 2020 in a bid to restrict the spread of the coronavirus. As a result, both theaters will limit {…}
(Credit: Opernhaus Zürich) Opernhaus Zürich will honor the memory of the late conductor Nello Santi by performing Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, according to the official statement on the company’s website. General Music Director of the Opernhaus Zürich Maestro Fabio Luisi will conduct the Zürich Philharmonic in the performance of Verdi’s masterwork that will star soloists soprano Hibla Gerzmava, tenor Benjamin {…}
Austrian mezzo-soprano Erika Wien passed away in Zürich at the age of 91 following a short illness. Born in Vienna in 1928, Wien spent a portion of her youth fleeing the Nazis in Poland and later the Soviet Union. After the War, she returned to her hometown to study voice at the Vienna Music Academy. According to Neue Zürcher Zeitung, {…}
Guatemalan soprano Adriana Gonzalez is the first musician in her entire family, making her meteoric rise in the opera world all the more essential to her and her loved ones. She has the potential to go even further this very week when she competes in the Operalia Competition, one month after appearing the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. {…}
The Zurich Opera has announced its 2019-20 season which will feature a whopping 11 opera premieres and 17 opera revivals. Premieres “The Makropulos Case” will be the first offering of the season with Evelyn Herlitzius starring as Emilia Marty. Other cast members will include Sam Furness, Kevin Conners, Deniz Uzun, Scott Hendricks, and Spencer Lang, among others. Dmitri Tcherniakov will direct while {…}
The Opernhaus Zürich has announced that Italian conductor Fabio Luisi, its General Music Director, has opted out of his role as musical director for the February/March performances of György Ligeti’s “La Grand Macabre.” As a result, Maestro Tito Ceccherini, “an acclaimed interpreter of the modern repertoire” according to Opera Musica, will stand in as musical director for the upcoming performances {…}
What endures of Zurich Opera’s performance of Lehár’s “Das Land des Lachelns” is Piotr Beczala. Never did we fail to hear the clear, clean line of his clarion sound; never did we fail to feel his full and steady presence on stage. While outside, swans and an array of boats dotted Lake Zurich and strollers savored assorted ice creams, inside, {…}