The Bayreuth Festival has announced its 2024 season. The festival will open with Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” starring Andreas Schager, Günther Groissböck, Camilla Nylund, Olafur Sigurdarson, Birger Radde, and Ekaterina Gubanova. Semyon Bychkov conducts the production by Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson. Performance Dates: July 25-August 26 2024 Günther Groissböck, Klaus Florian Vogt, Markus Eiche, Olafur Sigurdarson, Jens-Erik Aasbø, and Elisabeth Teige {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” is set to return to the Met for four performances. The opera, which is set to be performed between May 30 to June 10, will be shown in a production by François Girard, which premiered in 2020. German conductor Thomas Guggeis will make his Met debut leading a cast that {…}
The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2023-24 season featuring a wide array of repertoire. Opera Maria Agresta, Saioa Hernández, and Maria Pia Piscitelli star in Cherubini’s “Medea“ alongside Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Silvia Tro Santafé, Jongmin Park, Alexander Vinogradov, Sara Blanch, Marina Monzó, Enea Scala, and Francesco Demuro. Ivor Bolton conducts the production by Paco Azorín. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2022-23 season featuring six new productions, all of which are themed around Mahler. Premieres Lorenzo Viotti conducts “Von Der Liebe Tod” which includes Mahler’s “Kindertotenlieder” and “Das klagende Lied.” Calixto Bieito directs the production which stars Vera-Lotte Boecker, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Daniel Jenz, and Florian Boesch. Performance Dates: Sept. 29, 2022-May 16, 2023 Philippe Jordan {…}
The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its 2022-23 season with 12 new productions and numerous revivals. Premieres Eric Cutler, Christof Fischesser, Tomasz Konieczny, Katie van Kooten, Patricia Bardon, and Camilla Nylund star in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” The new production by Andreas Homoki will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Performance Dates: Sept. 18-Oct. 29, 2022 Offenbach’s “Barkouf” will see Jérémie Rhorer conduct the {…}
The Bayreuth Festival has announced a cast change for its upcoming production of “Die Walküre.” The company announced that Tomasz Konieczny will sing the role of Wotan in “Die Walküre” on July 29, August 3, and 19 replacing Günther Groissböck. Konieczny made his Bayreuth debut in 2018 in “Lohengrin” and had a big break out at the Metropolitan Opera in 2019 {…}
The Spain National Orchestra and Chorus has announced its 2021-22 season featuring world-class soloists and some of the greatest masterworks in the repertoire. For this article, we will only focus on the vocal and operatic performances. David Afkham conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with soloists Julia Kleiter and Karen Cargill. Performance Dates: Oct. 8-10, 2021 Miguel Ángel García Cañamero conducts {…}
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced the streaming program for the week featuring Wagner, Beethoven, Puccini, Mahler, and Verdi. The week begins with Wagner’s “Siegfried” conducted by Adam Fischer and starring Christian Franz, Linda Watson, Tomasz Konieczny, and Jochen Schmeckenbecher. The production comes from a run in 2016. Streaming Date: March 30, 2021 Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” will be streamed from a 2016 {…}
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its weekly streams for Nov. 30 through Dec 6, 2020. The week is set to begin with a production of Mozart’s “The Abduction of the Seraglio.” The production by Hans Neuenfels stars Lisette Oropesa, Daniel Behle, Regula Mühlemann, Michael Laurenz, and Goran Juric. Streaming Date: Nov. 30, 2020 Camilla Nylund stars in a recent production {…}
This weekend is Valentine’s Day so we tried to choose works with great love stories. Here are this weekend’s top five operas to see! Don Carlos – Opera Royal de Wallonie, Belgium Gregory Kunde sings the final performance of Verdi’s epic in the title role. He is joined by Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Kate Aldrich, Lionel Lhote, and Roberto Scandiuzzi. Paolo Arrivabeni {…}
(Credit: Moritz Schell Fotografie/Catherine Ashmore/Yasuko Kageyama / TOR) Three rarely performed works highlight the international weekend with three other repertory staples. There are also two new productions opening with one company premiere. Here is a look at what we recommend. Halka – Theater an der Wien, Austria Łukasz Borowicz conducts a new production of Moniuszko’s masterpiece. Mariusz Treliński directs the {…}