(Credit: Andreas Hechenberger) Rolando Villazón, the Artistic Director of the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, has announced that the organizers have canceled the famed Mozart Week 2021, which was supposed to take place from Jan. 21 – Jan. 31, 2021. “We are very sorry that we will not be able to hold the Mozart Week 2021. With a lot of optimism, we {…}
Ópera Studio Beckman is launching a new virtual platform that will host the Festival de Tequila. The Platform will launch on Nov. 30 with the festival showcasing masterclasses by some of the greatest opera singers in the world including Plácido Domingo, Javier Camarena, Nadine Sierra, Rolando Villazón, Olga Peretyatko, Sonya Yoncheva, Anita Rachvelishvili, Piotr Beczala, Nelly Miriciouiu, and Lucas Meachem. {…}
In collaboration with Dejan Vukosavljevic On the heels of its 2020-21 season cancelation, the Metropolitan Opera has announced its 2021-22 season. The company will present six new productions including three company premieres. Here is a look at the new season. New Productions The season opens with “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” by Terence Blanchard. The opera will be conducted by {…}
It’s going to be an exciting week with a combination of live streams and other performances being made available digitally for opera lovers worldwide. And while we are at it – get ready for more in coming weeks as opera companies around the world start to embrace digital opera as part of their 2020-21 seasons. Before we kick off our {…}
(Credit: Rolex) Rolex is organizing a trilogy of concerts starring Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez, Rolando Villazón, and Renaud Capuçon. The idea behind the concerts will be to stick to its long-standing “commitment to champion those who set the highest standard in the world of music.” The concerts will begin on August 21 and run through September. According to Rolex, {…}
(Image source: Pittsburgh Opera official website) Pittsburgh Opera has announced its 2020-21 resident artists. The roster will include sopranos Madeline Ehlinger and Véronique Filloux, mezzo-soprano Maire Carmack, bass Jeremy Harr, baritone Yazid Gray, tenor Angel Romero, and stage director Kaley Karis Smith. The Resident Artist singers will be the main cast for all Pittsburgh Opera’s productions in the new season, {…}
This week there will be a mix of live streams with older performances also shown on various streaming platforms. And just a reminder to not forget to check out important discussions taking place regarding issues of race and equality in opera. We continue to recommend checking out several online shows such as Karen Slack’s “KikiKonversations,” Kenneth Overton’s “Black Opera Live,” “The {…}
The Philharmonie Luxembourg has announced its 2020-21 season featuring several great orchestras, soloists, and the famed Orchestre Philharmonique Luxembourg. For this article, we will only focus on the vocal performances. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle“ with Rinat Shaham and Gerald Finley. Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2020 Oksana Lyniv and Rolando Villazón join the Orchestre {…}
Rolando Villazón is set to perform a recital with harpist Xavier de Maistre for an exclusive livestream on the Deutsche Grammophon Stage. The concert, which is set for July 16, will be entitled “Serenata Latina” and will feature the tenor and harpist from the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. The concert features a program of intimate arrangements of Latin American songs {…}
Rolando Villazón has published his latest novel “Amadeus auf dem Fahrrad (Amadeus on a bicycle).” The novel was published by Rowohlt and is intended to be a love letter to Mozart. The book is currently only available in German and tells the story of a Mexican adolescent Vian Maurer, who dreams of becoming an opera singer but failed due to {…}
(Credit: Jiyang Chen/Rabovsky) The Pierre Boulez Saal has announced its 2020-21 Season. The German hall will present some of the greatest soloists in the world, including numerous great vocalists. For the purposes of this article, vocal performances will be highlighted. Olga Peretyatko and pianist Elena Bashkirova perform a recital of Russian music by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff. Performance Date: Sept. {…}