The North Carolina Symphony has announced its 2018-19 season. The new season will feature some of today’s greatest instrumentalists as well as some of today’s greatest singers. As with the past season announcements, we will only focus on the vocal events that this has to offer. The season opens with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Choral Fantasy with pianist Andrew {…}
The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2018-19 season filled with numerous stars and new music. The new season marks the first for music director Jaap van Zweden. For this article, we will concentrate on the vocal events of the season and the singers who will headline important concerts. Matthias Goerne Artist in Residence Matthias Goerne, one of today’s leading {…}
It was 1980, and Hildegard Behrens was at the Metropolitan Opera singing “Fidelio” with Jon Vickers. Gastón Ormazábal was but a student at Columbia University, where he is today a Senior Research Scientist. The two were about to meet for the first time. Neither knew that they would develop a friendship that would transcend Behrens’ lifetime. As Ormazábal, now the {…}
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s has announced its 2018-19 Carnegie Hall series. The season will include two concerts featuring some of the world’s greatest singers and another featuring one the world’s greatest pianist. The season kicks off on Oct. 25 when the orchestra performs Haydn’s “Nelson Mass” and the Mozart Requiem. The concert will be conducted by Bernard Labadie and {…}
This summer, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City will begin the first of what will be an annual summer event. The Chamber Music Festival, to be held this June and every June hereafter, will highlight a single composer. “Facets of Schubert” kicks-off the new tradition with three different performances throughout the month, where the organization will explore {…}
May is Asian Heritage Month in the United States and in honor of cultural diversity, OperaWire will look at honoring the Asian opera stars making major headlines at this very moment. Yonghoon Lee There are few tenors at this moment who can truly dominate the spinto tenor repertoire like Yonghoon Lee does. The South Korean tenor has established himself as {…}
Opera Philadelphia’s has announced that it will conclude its 2016-17 season with a new production Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The company will get five performances at the Academy of Music from April 28-May 7, all of which will be conducted by Corrado Rovaris, Opera Philadelphia’s celebrated Jack Mulroney Music Director. The new co-production, which premiered in November at Lyric {…}