(Photo credit: Cooper) The Princeton Symphony Orchestra announces its 2026 Princeton Festival. This article only features classical vocal concerts. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Victor Starsky perform at the Princeton Symphony Orchestra gala. Rossen Milanov conducts. Performance Date: June 6, 2026 Handel’s “Aminta e Fillide,” HWV 83, is presented be the ensemble, Twelfth Night. Performance Date: June 11, 2026 Toni {…}
The Sarasota Opera is set to present Verdi’s “Il Trovatore.” The production, which is set to be presented between March 7 and 29, 2026, will be revived for the first time since 2014. The company has only performed the work twice including in 1993. In a statement Sarasota Opera General Director Richard Russell said, “It is ‘Il Trovatore’s’ music that {…}
The Sarasota Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look: Fall 2026 The season opens with Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” with Kerrigan Bigelow as Gretel, alongside returning Lisa Chavez as the Witch, and Lindsey Polcyn as Gertrude. Spencer Reichman will make his company debut as the Father. Anthony Barrese conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 30-Nov. 14, 2026 Winter 2027 {…}
This review of “Tosca” covers the June 17, 2025 production. On a warm June evening, the Princeton Festival staged “Tosca.” The setting didn’t match the material. A breezy night under a white tent, sipping wine, is incongruent with heinous assault, torture, and suicide. But maybe that’s the point. “Tosca” doesn’t need help being dramatic. And once the drama starts, it {…}
The New York City Opera is set to present a concert production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” The performance will be held at the Bryant Park Picnic presented by Bank of America on August 24, 2024, at Bryant Park, NYC. Audiences will be able to see it on a first-come, first-served basis and is designed to be enjoyed casually. The opera will {…}
The New York City Opera is set to conclude its Bryant Park summer series with Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” on Sept. 8, 2023. The opera will be conducted by Maestro Joseph Rescigno and accompanied by members of the City Opera Orchestra. Shayna Leahy will direct the production which will star Victor Starsky, Joanna Mongiardo, Alex Boyd, Amy Maude Helfer, Drew Seigla, {…}
The New York City Opera is set to present Romance in Opera on Sept. 12, 2022 at the Wollman Rink in Central Park. The concert, which marks the third of the Wollman Rink concerts, will feature stars of the New York City Opera in arias and ensembles from “La Bohème,” “Tosca,” “La Traviata,” “Roméo et Juliette,” “L’elisir d’amore,” “The Pearl {…}
The New York City Opera is set to present Milestones of American Opera on August 15, 2022, at the Wollman Rink in Central Park. The performance will feature excerpts from American operatic works by Carlisle Floyd, Ricky Ian Gordon, Douglas Moore, Tobias Picker, Robert Ward, and Iain Bell from such operas as “The Ballad of Baby Doe,” “Susannah,” “Emmeline,” “Stonewall,” {…}
The New York City Opera has announced casting for its upcoming production of “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis.” The Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie opera, which will be directed by Richard Strafford, is set to star Rachel Blaustein, Brian James Myer, Mary Phillips, Stephen Powell, and Victor Starsky. The work will open on Jan. 19, 2022 at the Edmond {…}