The Staatsorchester Hamburg has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Omer Meir Wellber conducts a program of music by Beethoven and Unsuk Chin with Wei Wu as the soloist. Performance Dates: Jan. 31 & Feb. 1, 2027 Anja Bihlmaier conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with Sarah Wegener and Jess Dandy. Performance Dates: Feb. 28 {…}
Oper Köln has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres The first new production of the year will be Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” with Magdalena Hinterdobler, Ann-Beth Solvang, Patrick Zielke, Martin Summer, Bianca Andrew, KS Miljenko Turk, Giulia Montanari, Elsa Benoit, Young Woo Kim, and Dmitry Ivanchey. Marie-Ève Signeyrole directs and Felix Bender and Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 27-Dec. 20, 2026 {…}
(Credit: Kiki Liu) German mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff has joined the Intermusica’s Vocal & Opera roster for worldwide management. Eickhoff is the winner of the 2024 Opus Klassik New Talent of the Year and was the subject of Juliane Sauter’s documentary film “Primadonna or Nothing,” alongside Renata Scotto and Angel Blue. The mezzo has performed at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Danish {…}
(Photo: Miklos Szabo) It is well known that the premiere night of “The Barber of Seville” was a resounding failure. A series of onstage mishaps, boos from the audience, and even a black cat crossing the stage forced Gioachino Rossini to flee the theater to avoid, in his own words, “being killed by the audience for their unbridled passion.” Yet {…}
LIFE Victoria is set to present a performance featuring mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff, on May 21, 2024. This marks the mezzo’s debut after winning the Premio Victoria de los Ángeles at the Concurso de Canto Tenor Viñas. For the occasion, she will present a program alongside pianist Eleonora Pertz that features music by Debussy, Duparc, Mahler, Britten, Korngold, and Weill. Eickhoff {…}
The Semperoper Dresden has announced its 2024-25 season. Premieres Arrigo Boito’s “Mefistofele” is conducted by Andrea Battistoni and directed by Eva-Maria Höckmayr. The production will star Krzysztof Bączyk, Bekhzod Davronov, Marjukka Tepponen, and Martina Gedeck. Performance Dates: Sept. 28-Oct. 24, 2024 Richard Strauss’s “Intermezzo” will be conducted by Patrick Hahn and directed by Axel Ranisch. The cast will include Maria {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will be able to hear newly released archive recordings, a world premiere opera, debut albums, and some great baroque works. Erinnerung St. Florian Abbey Singers releases an album with an homage to Bruckner. Invocazioni Mariane: Andreas Scholl, Alessandro Tampieri & {…}
Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week, audiences are in for a treat with two solo highly anticipated solo albums and a complete opera with an all-star cast. Sea Songs Bryn Terfel’s new album “Sea Songs” presents a rich and diverse repertory of traditional music with sea shanties, {…}
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein has announced its 2022-23 season. New Productions Michael Thalheimer directs Verdi’s “Macbeth.” Stephen Blunier conducts a cast starring Hrolfur Saemundsson, Ewa Plonka, Bogdan Talos, Ovidiu Purcel, and David Fischer, among others. Performance Dates: June 12 – Sept. 18, 2022 Vasily Barkhatov directs “Der Fliegende Holländer” with Patrick Long conducting. The opera stars Gabriela Scherer, James Rutherford, {…}
Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff has won the 2022 Südwestrundfunk Junge Opernstars Competition. She took home the audience prize, the Emmerich Smola Prize, as well as the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Orchestra Prize, which is chosen by members of the orchestra. As the winner, Eickhoff will now have the opportunity to appear in a concert, studio production, and radio, television, and online programs {…}
Promethean Artists has announced that mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff has joined its roster of performers. A graduate with honors from Robert Schumann University, Eickhoff has recently made her role debut as Rosina in “Barber of Seville” with Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and will debut this summer at the Tiroler Festpiele Erl as Die Stallmagd in Humperdinck’s “Konigskinder.” The 2021-22 season will {…}
