The Sinfónica de Castilla y León has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances for the Spanish orchestra. Olivia Boen joins Mark Wigglesworth for a program of music by Britten and Shostakovich. Performance Dates: Feb. 6 & 7, 2025 Pablo Garcia Lopez, Helene Walter, and Gerard Farrera are soloists in Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella.” The program also includes Beethoven’s Symphony {…}
Spain’s Festival Castell de Peralada has announced its 2024 season. Here are the vocal performances. Piotr Beczala opens the season with Sarah Tysman in a program of songs by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and opera arias. Performance Date: July 19, 2024 Soprano Sonya Yoncheva and Ismael Jordi team up with Rubén Fernandez Aguirre for a program dedicated to zarzuela. Performance Date: {…}
The Orquesta de Córdoba has announced its 2023-24 season. Here are the vocal performances of the season. Pablo García López interprets music by Toldrá, Mozart, and García Leoz for the Christmas Concert. Luis Miguel Méndez conducts. Performance Date: Dec. 22, 2023 Isabella Gaudí, Mar Campo, Juan Sancho, and Javier Povedano lead a concert that includes Mozart, Villa-Lobos, and Beethoven. Julio Garcia {…}
Opéra de Lausanne has announced its 2021-22 season. Here is a look. Mozart‘s “Le Nozze di Figaro” opens the season. The opera stars Phillip Addis as Count Almaviva, Valentina Naforniţa as Countess Almaviva, Arianna Vendittelli as Susanna, and Robert Gleadow in the title role. The cast also includes Lucia Cirillo, Ruben Amoretti, Léa Desandre, Pablo Garcia Lopez, François Piolino, Sophie {…}
(Credit: Opera Australia official website) The Baluarte auditorium in Pamplona has announced a second cast change for its upcoming semi-staged performances of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” The Spanish opera house announced that tenor Walter Fraccaro will take over the role of Des Grieux, replacing Roberto Aronica. This marks the second high-profile replacement after soprano Ainhoa Arteta was forced to cancel due {…}
Opera Arias is organizing a takeover festival showcasing a number of opera stars in their living rooms. The festival will be held every Saturday and will begin with Brian Jagde on April 4. He will be followed by Spanish tenor and rising star Pablo Garcia-Lopez on April 11. On the third week of April Jennifer Rowley will take over on {…}
The Teatro Real is teaming up with a number of star singers to create the #OperaFest The festival will begin on March 21 and run through March 22 with each artist performing digitally via Instagram Live. The artists will perform songs and arias from a diverse array of repertoire. Among the singers who are scheduled to join the concert include {…}
(Credit: Catherine Ashmore-Royal Opera/ Jochen Quast-Deutsche Oper Am Rhein) This weekend is all about the repertory staples and intriguing casts that currently performing them. Here is a look at what we think you need to see. Un Ballo in Maschera- Narodni Diavdlo, Czech Republic Jennifer Rowley continues her run of Verdi’s middle period masterpiece. She sings the role of Amelia {…}
(Credit: Javier Del Rey) Pablo García-López is one of today’s rising stars in the opera world. Throughout the past few years the Spanish tenor has performed with some of the most prestigious Spanish theaters in the world and has made some appearances internationally that have brought him acclaim. He has also specialized in the work of Mozart and has worked {…}
The Teatro Cervantes de Málaga has announced its 2019-20 season featuring four staged productions and a concert performance. Berna Perles, César Gutiérrez, Roman Ialcic, Beatriz Díaz, Pablo García López, Luis López, and José Antonio López star in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” with José Carlos Plaza directing and Manuel Hernández Silva conducting. Performance Dates: Nov. 1 & 3, 2019 Javier Camarena performs a concert with music García, Rossini, and Zingarelli with {…}
Opéra de Lausanne has announced its 2019-20 season. Beate Ritter, Vannina Santoni, Géraldine Chauvet, Jean-François Borras, Nicolas Courjal, and Marina Viotti in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” with Jean-Yves Ossonce conducting. Performance Dates: Sept. 29–Oct. 9, 2019 The season will present the final of the Kattenburg competition. Performance Date: Oct. 17, 2019 Lenneke Ruiten stars in a concert entitled “Gli amori di Teolinda” featuring music {…}