Opera do Castelo and Teatro São Luiz co-present the national premiere of Barber’s “Vanessa.” Soprano Catarina Molder takes on the title role. Tenor Ermin Ašćerić sings Anatol. Soprano Beatriz Volante, mezzo-soprano Alexandra Calado, and baritones Luís Rodrigues and Tiago Amado Gomes make up the rest of the cast. They are joined by the Coro Operafest. Hannah König is the costume {…}
Details of Operafest Lisboa’s fifth season have been released. The article only contains opera-centered events. Throughout the festival “Maratona Ópera XXI: New Dynamics for Today’s Opera” workshops take place. The New Libretto Awards are also presented during this time. Mainstage Opening the festival is a double bill performance of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” The casts include Rodrigo Porras Garulo, {…}
(Photo credit: ©EGEAC, José Frade – photographer ) An extraordinary new opera premiered last week at Lisbon’s historic Teatro São Luiz, called “Felizmente Há Luar!” (loosely translatable as “fortunately the moonlight still shines”) by the prolific Portuguese composer Alexandre Delgado. Commissioned by the Orquestra Filarmónica Portuguesa, this was the most significant national opera premiere in recent years, and perhaps the {…}