The Sinfónica de Galicia has announced its 2024-25 season. Here are the vocal performances. Ian Bostridge and Nicolás Gómez Naval star in a program of music by Britten and Beethoven with Roberto González-Monjas conducting. Performance Dates: Nov. 1, 2024 Nikola Hillebrand and Roberto González-Monjas join forces for music by Mozart, Mahler, and Strauss. Performance Dates: Jan. 31, 2025 Raquel Lojendio {…}
The Palau de la Música in Valencia, Spain has announced its 2022-23 season. The president Gloria Tello, director Vicent Ros, and Artistic Director Alexander Liebreich announced the program which will consist of 30 concerts at the sala Auditori de Les Arts and the Teatro Principal in València. Raquel Lojendio and Josep Ramon Olivé perform alongside Miguel Á. Gómez-Martínez in a {…}
Spain’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances the season will offer. Marina Heredia and Perry So team up for a program entitled “Noche de Brujas.” The evening will include “Sorginen soinua” by Beatriz Arzamendi, the 1925 version of “El amor brujo” by Manuel de Falla, and Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie {…}
The Fundación Baluarte has announced its 2022-23 Season featuring ballet, theater, opera, and concerts. Here is a look at the vocal performances of the season. Emilio Arrieta’s “San Franco de Sena” will be performed in concert form with Alejandro Roy, Beatriz Díaz, Javier Franco, Frederic Jost, Julen Jiménez, Itsaso Loinaz, and Patricio Poncela. José Miguel Pérez Sierra conducts. Performance Date: {…}
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 {…}
Spain’s Orquesta de Extremadura has announced its 2022-23 season featuring two operatic performances and vocal highlights. Here are just the vocal performances for the season. Wagner’s “Parsifal” will star Christopher Ventris, Allison Cook, Derek Welton, and Noel Bouley. Pablo Heras-Casado conducts. Performance Date: Jan. 26, 2023 Raquel Lojendio and Javier Franco star in Menoitti’s “The Telephone” and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s “Il Segreto di Susana.” Andrés {…}
(Credit: Teatro Real official website) The Teatro Real has announced a completely new cast for the performance of Puccini’s “La bohème” on Jan. 3, 2022. Per the official statement, Francesco Demuro replaced Andeka Gorrotxategi as Rodolfo, Ailyn Pérez replaced Eleonora Buratto in the role of Mimì, Javier Franco replaced Andrzej Filonczyk as Marcello, and Gabriel Bermúdez replaced Manel Esteve in {…}
(Credit: Teatro Real official website) The Teatro Real in Madrid was forced to change a big part of the cast for the Dec. 29 presentation of Puccini’s “La bohème.” Per Platea Magazine, only two singers from the formerly announced cast have appeared onstage – Krzysztof Baczyk in the role of Colline, and Joan Martín-Royo as Schaunard. The company announced that {…}
The Malaga Philharmonic has announced its 2020-21 featuring 15 concerts and a number of internationally recognized soloists. Here is a look at the vocal performances for the season. José María Moreno conducts the Christmas concert which is set to include Rossini’s “Guillaume Tell” Overture and Puccini’s “Messa di Gloria” with soloists Eduardo Aladrén and Rui Silva. Performance Dates: Dec. 17 {…}
The Teatro de la Zarzuela in Spain has announced its 2020-21 season featuring several productions, concerts, and recitals. Productions The season opens with a double entitled “Granada.” The first work in the double bill will be “La Tempranica” starring Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Javier Franco, Rubén Amoretti, Gustavo Peña, Gerardo Bullón, and Miguel Sola. Meanwhile, Ainhoa Arteta and Virgnia {…}
Giuseppe Verdi had only written a single comedy: “Un giorno di regno” and 26 tragedies before deciding to put music to the comical Shakespeare’s character “Falstaff,” his last composition. Verdi had already started a musical development in his latest operas, more noticeable in his precedent work “Otello,” looking for different ways to create a perfect musical drama, breaking with the {…}