The Academy of Vocal Arts has announced date changes for its upcoming productions. The company noted that due to the continued spread of COVID-19, it was forced to postpone its production of “Eugene Onegin” and outright cancel its intended version of “Mignon” altogether. The Tchaikovsky masterpiece was originally set to open on Jan. 22 and run through Jan. 29. Instead, {…}
(Credit: Wiener Staatsoper official website) The Wiener Staatsoper has announced the slate of operas that it will be presenting on its streaming platform over the next week. Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” from 2020 kicks off the slate. The opera spotlights Helene Schneiderman, Nicole Car, Anna Goryachova, Larissa Diadkova, Andrè Schuen, Bogdan Volkov, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Dan Paul Dumitrescu, Mykola Erdyk, and Johanna {…}
On November 19, 2021 Spotlight Artists Management presented a concert of beloved Russian works, titled “Russian Musical Masterpieces.” Held at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, this concert marked the beginning of an artistic partnership between the two entities, and came in celebration of the cathedral’s 120th anniversary, as well as the 75th birthday of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Primate of {…}
Soprano Viktoria Slobodina will join forces with pianist Yu Chen for a recital on June 19, 2021. The showcase, which will be streamed directly on the Online Music Guild, will feature music by Puccini, Verdi, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Tchaikovsky. Slobodina hails from Saint Petersburg and studied in Vienna. She received a special prize at the Vienna New Year’s Concert International {…}
(Credit: Oleh Pavluchenkov) The Opéra national de Paris has announced a series of concert performances set to take place between June 6-12, 2021. Conductor Oksana Lyniv will direct the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris for the very first time in a showcase that will star Étienne Dupuis, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Asmik Grigorian, and Ivan Gyngazov; Grigorian and Gyngazov will be {…}
(Credit: Ray Burmiston) Soprano Lise Davidsen will perform the concert at the Teatro alla Scala on May 10, 2021. The concert will be streamed on Raiplay from May 11, 2021 from 12 p.m. CET for a period of one week. The concert will be open to the audience within the limits of current Italian government’s COVID-19 legislation. Davidsen will present {…}
The Russian Opera Workshop has announced that it will continue its 2021 training program as a Virtual Role Study Workshop. The program will be divided into two sessions focusing on Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” and “Eugene Onegin.” Role studies for “Iolanta” will take place between June 7-18 with “Eugene Onegin” workshops set for July 5-16. “As we approach the end of the {…}
“Page to Opera Stage” looks at stories – real-life or fiction, old and new – that have inspired operas, and the ways these narratives have been edited and dramatized to fit a new medium. This week’s installment – the first one – looks at Alexander Pushkin’s and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin.” At the age of 26, the poet, novelist, {…}
(Credits: Ilia Korotkov / Bayerische Staatsoper official website) The Mariinsky Theatre will live stream a performance of Prokofiev’s opera “The Fiery Angel” on MEZZO TV on Jan. 31 at 5:30 p.m. CET. The opera will star Elena Stikhina, Evgeny Nikitin, Anna Kiknadze, Evgeny Akimov, and Mikhail Petrenko. Valery Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in the production by David {…}
(Credit: Gregor Hohenberg / Sony Classical) Famed tenor Jonas Kaufmann will give a recital at Teatro Real de Madrid on Jan. 14, 2021. For this occasion, Kaufmann will be accompanied by his long-term collaborator, pianist Helmut Deutsch. The program for the concert includes music by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Dvořák, among others. The {…}
(Credit: Fondazione Arena di Verona official website) The Teatro Filarmonico in Italy has announced that it will broadcast a series of events in collaboration with the Municipality of Verona, the Cariverona Foundation and the Verona Philharmonic Academy. The concerts focus on the relationship between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the city of Verona as their central theme. “Mozart, from Austria to {…}