The Aspen Music Festival and School has announced its 2021 summer season. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be squarely on opera or vocal concert performances. Julia Bullock will appear alongside the Aspen Chamber Symphony in a program that features music by Bologne, Mozart, Delage, and Haydn. Nicholas McGegan conducts. Performance Date: July 9, 2021 Julia Bullock {…}
Cal Performances’ “At Home” is set to present recitals by Christine Goerke and Renée Fleming. On April 1, Goerke’s recital will be presented from an Art Factory in New Jersey. The program will include music by Handel, Schumann, Brahms, and R. Strauss as well as a special selection of Italian songs celebrating the soprano’s heritage, musical-theater songs by Cole Porter {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next two weeks of streams, which will be dedicated to two themes. The first week will be dedicated to Myths and Legends and the second will be dedicated to Love Triangles. Here is a breakdown. Week 54 – Myths and Legends Monday, March 22 – Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice Starring Danielle de Niese, Heidi {…}
Renée Fleming is set to perform at The Shed as part of the hall’s reopening schedule. The soprano will perform at the New York City Arts center on April 21 for a live audience at 8 p.m. Last week The Shed announced “An Audience with…,” a five-night indoor performance series from April 2 to 22 produced in accordance with New {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 53rd straight week of nightly streams, which will feature a program dedicated to viewers’ choice winners. Here is a round-up of the operas that audiences will be able to stream throughout the week. Monday, March 15 – Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann Starring Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Kim, Ekaterina Gubanova, Kate Lindsey, Joseph Calleja, and Alan Held, conducted {…}
PBS has announced that it will be broadcasting the Met Opera’s “Met Stars Live in Concert series” throughout 2021. All performances will be presented on PBS (check local listings for more details). Kicking off the year-long series will be Renée Fleming’s concert from Washington D.C., in which she performed music by Puccini, Massenet, Korngold, and Handel, among others. Broadcast Date: {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next two weeks of streams, which include a plethora of famed opera stars. There will also be some premiere streams of classic telecasts. The first week of March will be dedicated to celebrating Women’s History Month while the second will focus on Verismo works. Here is a breakdown. Week 51 – Celebrating Women’s History {…}
As February draws to a close, audiences will get a chance to engage with some of the major companies from around the world as they showcase a slew of unique concert experiences ranging from live performances to some streaming classics. Without further ado, here are our top 10 operas to stream this week! Verzauberte Welt – Staatsoper Stuttgart (NOW) The {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced the next two weeks of its streaming slate. One week will be dedicated to iconic productions of director Franco Zeffirelli with the second week dedicated to baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky who passed away back in 2017, leaving behind a legacy of Met HD recordings. Week 49– Franco Zeffirelli Week Monday, February 15 – Puccini’s La Bohème Starring {…}
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced the NY PopsUp festival, which is slated to take place across New York between mid-February and through Labor Day. Starting on Feb. 20, artists from across the state will put on a wide range of artistic events led by producers Scott Rudin and Jane Rosenthal in coordination with the New York State Council {…}
Renée Fleming performed at the Mass of Thanksgiving to commemorate the inauguration of President Joe Biden. During the mass, the soprano sang “Ave Maria” and “America the Beautiful” Fleming released a statement to the New York Times stating, “I knew it would be intensely emotional, after the frightening divisions we’ve all witnessed, to sing ‘Ave Maria’ and ‘America the Beautiful’ {…}
