Canada’s Pacific Opera Victoria has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” which will star Canadian Andrew Haji, and Jennifer Tarver. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-22, 2024 Rachel Portman’s “The Little Prince” will showcase Emma Parkinson, Ben Butterfield, and Melody Courage. The show will feature a partnership, with Principal Conductor and Chorus Master, Giuseppe Pietraoria {…}
Opera Australia is set to open its 2024 season with the Sydney premiere of”La Traviata.” The production, directed by Sarah Giles, will open on Jan. 2, 2024. The opera is presented in co-production with Opera Queensland, State Opera South Australia, and West Australian Opera. Headlining the cast will be soprano Samantha Clarke in her Opera Australia debut. She is joined {…}
(Credit: Brescia e Amisano ©Teatro alla Scala) The Teatro alla Scala’s opening night production is always a major event. But this year’s “Don Carlo” had particular high expectations to fulfill. The major reason for this was undoubtedly the A-list cast, headlined by two of the world’s most famous divas Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča. But they were also flanked by {…}
Credit: Meg Goldman Verdi’s “Rigoletto” was staged by Regina Opera Company in Brooklyn, New York, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help on Nov. 18, 2023. Impressive vocalists in the cast included Peter Hakjoon Kim in the title role, Veronica Mak as Gilda, and Christopher Trapani as the Duke of Mantua. Scott Jackson Wiley was on the podium, conducting the Regina {…}
IN Series will present “The Promised End,” a unique exploration of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Verdi’s Requiem. The production is set for Nov. 18-Dec. 10 at the Source Theatre and Dec. 15-17, 2023 at the Baltimore Theatre Project. The work, which originally opened in 2018, will feature eight vocal artists, including Teresa Ferrara, Natalie Conte, Elizabeth Mondragon, Gayssie Lugo, Brian {…}
The Amman Opera Festival has postponed its previously announced production of “Aida.” Per the company’s official social media, “As most of you who we have had the chance to reach out to so far for a while now, know we have postponed the event, considering the unfortunate and extremely sad incidents that have been continuously occurring causing the death and {…}
North Carolina Opera is set to present “La Traviata” on Oct. 27 and 29, 2023. The production, which kicks off the 2023-24 season, will be conducted by Joseph Mechavich and directed by John Hoomes. The opera will star Vanessa Vasquez as Violetta with Jonathan Johnson as Alfredo. Andrew Manea will take on the role of Giorgio Germont. Rounding out the {…}
(© Laura Scaccabarozzi) When you talk about Verdi baritones in the modern era, few singers fit the bill quite like Amartuvshin Enkhbat. The Mongolian baritone possesses a potent voice with a confident upper range that can then transform into the most gentle of vocal caresses. His vast vocal palette has made him a go-to in the Italian composer’s iconic roles. {…}
The Belle Mehus Auditorium in Bismarck, North Dakota is set to present the “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín” on Oct. 20 and 21, 2023. The concert-drama, which commemorates Jewish prisoners of Theresienstadt Concentration Camp during World War II, will feature a performance of Verdi’s Requiem” interspersed with historic film and testimony from survivors. It showcases the Bismark-Mandan Symphony Orchestra under {…}
(Photo: Amati Bacciardi) Soprano Anastasia Bartoli is a rising star on the Italian and European opera scene. Over the course of this year alone, she has received a string of glowing reviews including her performance as Cristina in “Eduardo e Cristina” at the Rossini Opera Festival. In October she will be performing Lucrezia in Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” at Venice’s {…}
The Ravenna Festival is set to present “a trilogy according to Riccardo Muti.” From Dec. 16 to 22, Muti will lead his Cherubini Orchestra in the semi-staged performances of “Norma” and “Nabucco” and in an all-Verdi gala at the 19th-century Alighieri Theatre. On Dec. 16 and 19, Muti will conduct Bellini’s “Norma” with Klodjan Kaçani, Vittorio De Campo, Monica Conesa, {…}
