MyOpera is set to present Verdi’s “Attila” on May 17, 2025 from the Teatro Real. The performance will be broadcast live, starring Sondra Radvanovsky as Odabella, Christian Van Horn in the title role of Attila, Artur Rucinski as Ezio, and Michael Fabiano as Foresto. The cast is rounded out by Moisés Marín and Insung Sim. Nicola Luisotti conducts the concert {…}
The Palau de la Música Catalana has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Adolf Gassol conducts Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Performance Dates: Sept. 6 & Dec. 6, 2025 Puccini’s “Tosca” will be performed. Performance Date: Sept. 11, 2025 Julia Kleiter joins the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès and Andrés Salado for G. Ortiz and Tchaikovsky. Performance {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Bohème,” featuring Nicole Car, Yaritza Véliz, Charles Castronovo, Joshua Guerrero, Andrea Carroll, Étienne Dupuis, Xiaomeng Zhang, and Alexandros Stavrakakis. Domingo Hindoyan conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 12-Oct. 14, 2025 Cecilia Molinari leads Handel’s “Ariodante” alongside Luca Tittoto, Jacquelyn Stucker, Sabine Devieilhe, Rupert Charlesworth, Christophe Dumaux, {…}
(Photo: © Sondra Radvanovsky press) American and Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is widely regarded as one of the foremost sopranos of our time. She is renowned as a leading interpreter of bel canto and verismo, particularly works by Giuseppe Verdi, and appears at leading opera houses throughout the world. Winner of numerous awards, she has been widely recorded on CD and {…}
At the risk of repeating myself, opera should be all about the music and the voice. If I’m ever asked to quantify that statement, I readily proffer “Turandot” in support of my assertions. For here is a ridiculous, cruel, convoluted tale that is impossible to like and grasp, perpetrated by a pair of unpleasant, thoroughly dislikeable characters with, were it {…}
The Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced its 2025-26 season. The company will open with the Lyric Opening Concert & Gala. Performance Date: Oct. 10, 2025 The first production of the season will be Cherubini’s “Medea“ starring Sondra Radvanovsky in Sir. David McVicar’s production. She will be joined by Matthew Polenzani, Elena Villalón, Zoie Reams, and Alfred Walker. Enrique Mazzola {…}
The Festival de Granada has announced its 2025 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Luis Arance, Marcelo Solís, Łukasz Biela, Rocío Faus, Solomía Antonyak, Belén Herrero, and Gonzalo Ruiz star in Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” for kids. Performance Date: June 6, 2025 La Cetra performs Bach’s Mass in B Minor with soloists Jone Martínez, Lea Elisabeth Müller, Carlos Mena, Jakob Pilgram, {…}
(Credit: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera) For the third time this season, the Metropolitan Opera is reviving Sir. David McVicar’s “Tosca” production. The production has become one of the most successful for Peter Gelb’s tenure and one that has seen some of the greatest divas on stage. At the beginning of the season, the Met showcased a beguiling Aleksandra Kurzak {…}
The Opéra National de Paris has announced the streaming slate for Paris Opera Play during the months of January and February. First up is “Vissi d’arte – Gala Maria Callas,” starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Pretty Yende, Kate Lindsey, and Eve-Maud Hubeaux. Eun Sun Kim conducted the gala, which was be directed by Robert Carsen. The event took place in December 2023. {…}
(Photo by: Michael Cooper) Intermusica has announced the addition of soprano Sondra Radvanovsky to the organization’s roster for management. The famed soprano has been a major star at all of the world’s renowned opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real de Madrid, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro di San Carlo, Royal Ballet and Opera. At the {…}
Medici.tv is set to stream a Puccini concert starring Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczała. The concert will be streamed on Nov. 23, 2024 and will showcase the two soloists alongside the Würth Philharmoniker and Claudio Vandelli at the Carmen Würth Forum in Künzelsau. The concert marks the 100-year anniversary of the passing of verismo master Giacomo Puccini. and will showcase the the two soloists in {…}