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Greer Grimsley to join Lise Lindstrom in Concert for “One Amazing Night” replacing René Barbera
San Diego, CA – Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley will replace tenor René Barbera for San Diego Opera’s One Amazing Night concert on May 5, 2018 at the Balboa Theatre. Greer will join soprano Lise Lindstrom for an evening of operatic favorites with the San Diego Symphony....
‘Tell me what traditional means’ – director Richard Jones on La Bohème
He put Rhinemaidens in fat suits, breathed life into Turnage’s Anna Nicole – now he is directing Covent Garden’s first new production of La Bohème for four decades. Richard Jones gives a rare interview Pink floorboards, yellow chairs, green cupboards and five...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin honoured with 2017 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance
Toronto, September 5, 2017 – Renowned conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the recipient of the 2017 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance. He will receive the award on Thursday, September 7 at 7:30 p.m., as he conducts the Orchestre Métropolitain’s...
A Prom of Transformation and Transcendence: Renée Fleming and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
‘We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child’, begins the lyrical prose-poem by James Agee from which Barber drew his text, and which the composer said, ‘reminded me so...
Opera Saratoga: The Racing City’s OTHER Season…
RETROSPECTIVE: of Opera Saratoga’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season (July 1 through 16) – Verdi’s Falstaff; Grétry’s and Marmontel’s Zémire et Azor; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. The end-days of summer are high horse-racing season in Saratoga, with turfites and...
Glyndebourne perform La clemenza di Tito at the Proms
Robin Ticciati conducted the Glyndebourne Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with Richard Croft as Tito, Alice Coote as Vitellia, Anna Stéphany as Sesto, Joelle Harvey as Servilia, Michèle Losier as Annio and Clive Bayley as Publio. Iain Rutherford’s...
Ariadne auf Naxos at the Berkshire Opera Festival: a Girl, a God, a Bunch of Gags
REVIEW: Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production at the Berkshire Opera Festival. It’s a backstage story as only Richard Strauss and his invaluable and (more or less) constant collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal could tell it. The Berkshire Opera...
Cadogan Hall and soprano Nazan Fikret present Grenfell Tower Benefit Concert
BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny presents a concert in two parts on 17 September at 6pm at Cadogan Hall. The first half will include solo songs by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Quilter, followed by the Super Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, accompanying Ailish...
10 Canadian Opera Singers making Canada Proud in 2017-2018
The 2017-18 opera season is nearly upon us and, yet again, Canadian singers will be out there, making us proud on stages around the world. We asked Toronto-based arts journalist Catherine Kustanczy, who regularly travels abroad to attend...
Edinburgh festival 2017: the shows we recommend
Plan your viewing with our list of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated throughout the festival Continue reading... Source: Opera News from the UK Guardian
Adelaide festival 2018 opera headliner is Brett Dean and Neil Armfield’s Hamlet
Following the success of Barrie Kosky’s Saul, Adelaide festival continues its Glyndebourne partnership with another Australian creative team Internationally renowned Australian opera talent will again headline Adelaide festival in the form of composer Brett Dean’s...
Tapestry Opera Presents the World Premiere of Bandits in the Valley at Toronto’s Historic Todmorden Mills
-A free, all-ages opera for the community, weekends in September- TORONTO, ON: Canada’s leading contemporary opera company, Tapestry Opera, in conjunction with the Toronto Arts Council and the Todmorden Mills Heritage Site, is pleased to announce the world premiere...