The CBC Virtual Orchestra will release a world premiere performance of Vivian Fung’s “Prayer.” The online recording, created in isolation with musicians from 28 different orchestras throughout Canada, will be led by Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Audiences will get a chance to experience the world premiere globally on July 1, 2020 via CBC Music. “’Prayer’ is, in essence, {…}
(Credit: Ken Howard / Met Opera) In continuation of the 2019-20 Great Performances Series, PBS will present the Live in HD broadcast of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” from the Metropolitan Opera on Sunday, May 3, 2020. The broadcast will kick off at 12 p.m. EDT. The cast includes baritone Peter Mattei in the title role with Elza van den Heever as {…}
(Credit: HANS VAN DER WOERD) The Orchestre Metropolitan de Montreal has announced its 2020-21 season. For this article we will only include highlight vocal performances. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mendelssohn’s “Elias” with Lucy Crowe, Karen Cargill, Andrew Staples, and John Relyea. Performance Dates: Dec. 5 & 6, 2020 Simone Young conducts Adrianne Pieczonka in Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6. Performance Dates: April 9-10, 2021 {…}
The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of important soloists. For this article we will focus on vocal performances. Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is set to be conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with a cast that includes Jennifer Rowley, Karen Cargill, Rodrick Dixon, and Eric Owens. Joe Miller directs Refik Anadol’s Visually striking designs. Performance Dates: Oct. 9-14, {…}
(Credit: Jiyang Chen/Javier del Real/ Simon Pauly) The Festspielhaus Baden Baden has announced its 2020-21 season. For this article we will only highlight vocal performances. The season opens with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and “Bluebeard’s Castle.” Rinat Shaham and Gerald Finley star in the later with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Performance Date: Sept. 20, 2020 Benjamin {…}
(Credit: Metropolitan Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has announced that the Met Orchestra will tour Europe in the summer of 2021 following its annual residency at Carnegie Hall. The Met’s Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct all five concerts which will include stops at the Barbican Centre in London on June 29, 2021, the Philharmonie in Paris on June 30 and {…}
(Credit: Marylene Mey) The Metropolitan Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music have announced a collaboration to present Missy Mazzoli’s “Breaking the Waves.” The opera will be performed starting on June 23- 30, 2020 with Sydney Mancasola as Bess McNeill, Wallis Giunta as Dodo, and Duncan Rock as Jan. The Metropolitan Opera announced that Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the opera with {…}
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced its 2020 Classical Season. While there will be a number of chamber concerts and movie screenings, for the purposes of this article we will only announce the vocal performances. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra, Albany Pro Musica and the Pro Musica International Festival Chorus in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The concert {…}
(Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera) The 2019-20 Metropolitan Opera New Year’s Eve gala started at 5:30 p.m and was scheduled to end around four hours later, leaving plenty of time for pre-midnight festivities. However, throughout the performance, you often wondered if the audience, despite witnessing three short Puccini acts from “La Bohème,” “Tosca,” and “Turandot,” might actually welcome the {…}
One could call the Met Opera’s new production of “Wozzeck” a collage. The opera itself undeniably brings this word to mind in how Alban Berg unites the dark tale of a misanthrope who murders his lover and drowns himself via numerous musical structures and forms. The entire first act features a suite, a rondo, a lullaby, and a passacaglia while {…}
Yannick Nézet-Séguin has been named the artistic director of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. The New York Times reported that the Metropolitan Opera’s newly appointed Music Director will take over the program first established by James Levine in 1980. Nézet-Séguin will help in nurturing the next generation of talent by leading the company’s prestigious young artist program.which helped foster {…}