Jonathan Tetelman is set to make his Semperoper Dresden debut. The company announced that Tetelman will sing Mario Cavaradossi in “Tosca” on Nov. 14, replacing Riccardo Massi. Tetelman is coming off a run of “Tosca” at the Teatro Regio di Torino and is set to sing the opera at the Malmö Opera in December. He also sings in a production {…}
(Credit: © 国家大剧院National Centre for the Performing Arts Davinia Rodríguez is one of Spain’s most acclaimed and beloved sopranos. She has sung in every major Spanish theater and around the world and has performed a range of repertoire that stretches from the great Bel Canto operas to the dramatic early Verdi roles, including her acclaimed Lady Macbeth. This week Rodríguez {…}
(Credit: Virginia Opera) Tosca is the ultimate diva role. It’s the role most sopranos dream of singing because of its demands both as a singer and actress. This week the Virginia Opera will see rising star Ewa Plonka make her company debut in her very first “Tosca” performances. Plonka, a prize winner of such prestigious competitions as the Marcello Giordani {…}
Chautauqua Opera has announced its 2020 season, which will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment with three main stage operas. “I’m thrilled that our 2020 season will feature such a unique trio of operas, each of which revolves around a powerful female figure who is fighting to forge her own path and have her voice {…}
The Verdi Chorus is set to showcase a new program “Sound and Fury” as part of its 36th season.The event, set for Nov. 16-17 at the First United Methodist Church in Santa Monica, California, will feature Alex Boyer, Shana Blake Hill, and Malcolm MacKenzie as guest soloists. The program will center on operatic sequences from Verdi’s “Otello” and “Il Trovatore,” {…}
Anna Netrebko is set to perform Puccini’s “Tosca” next summer at the Salzburg Festival. The summer announced via Facebook that she would be returning to the festival in the title role. Netrebko debuted the role of “Tosca” at the Metropolitan Opera during the 2017-18 season with OperaWire calling her interpretation a triumph. The soprano is set to reprise her interpretation {…}
(Credit: Festival d’Aix en Provence) On July 9, 2019, Mezzo TV is set to present Puccini’s “Tosca’ from the Festival D’Aix-En-Provence. The new production by Christophe Honore is set to star Angel Blue in the title role and her role debut and Catherine Malfitano as La Prima Donna. The cast is rounded out by Joseph Calleja as Cavaradossi and Alexey {…}
(Credit: Yasuko Kageyama / Teatro dell’Opera di Roma) What is it about “Tosca” that seems to provoke the most conservative impulses? It’s hard to think of another opera that, in the little more than a century since its premiere, has been so widely and frequently performed, yet in a spirit not of renewal or discovery, but of replication. Even “Parsifal,” {…}
(Credit: Michael Pohn/Wiener Staatsoper) Polish tenor Piotr Beczała, currently starring as Cavaradossi in Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Wiener Staatsoper, will receive the title of Kammersänger. According to Salzburger Nachrichten, the ceremony will take place on Jun. 23, 2019 following the final performance of “Tosca,” which will be broadcast live on Herbert von Karajan-Platz as part of “Oper live am Platz.” {…}
(Credit: Catherine Ashmore / Royal Opera House) At the tender age of 12, Jonathan Kent’s 2004 production of Tosca is among the fledglings of the Royal Opera roster. Visually simplistic and at times homogeneous, it eschews the archetypical velvet red and gleaming gold numerous incarnations of the opera take in favor of a dusky navy that enrobes the Sant’Andrea church, {…}
(Credit: Elena Nezenceva) Kristine Opolais has canceled tonight’s performance of “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House. The soprano announced via social media that she was ill and would not be able to sing. The soprano stated, “Dear friends, I am sorry to let you know that I have to cancel tonight’s performance of ‘Tosca’ at the Royal Opera House and apologize {…}