iSING! Festival 2024 Review: Mason Bates’s ‘Spring River Flowers by Moonlight’

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For the first generation of singers who traveled to China in 2011, I SING BEIJING was something new and adventurous, but also a bit of a lark. That has changed over the intervening years. On November 2, 2024, the iSING! Festival, as it is now known, and the Philadelphia Orchestra performed under the baton of Marin Alsop at Beijing’s National {…}

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Jessica Pratt, Carmen Giannattasio, Anastasia Bartoli & Juliana Grigoryan Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2025 Season

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The Teatro Comunale di Bologna has announced its 2025 season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” with Riccardo Frizza conducting a cast that includes Carmen Giannattasio, Angelo Villari, and Claudio Sgura. Paul Curran directs. Another cast includes Ann Petersen, Amadi Lagha, and Gustavo Castillo. Performance Dates: Jan. 24-30, 2025 Jessica Pratt, Giovanni Sala, Marko Mimica, and Lucas Meachem lead Donizetti’s {…}

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Alice Tully Hall 2023 Review: iSing! Suzhou’s ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

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On Jan. 7, 2023, iSing Suzhou, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Asian Performing Arts Council presented “Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems” at Alice Tully Hall. The event, in celebration of the Lunar New Year, was the culmination of a compositional competition that initiated in 2020. The composition yielded competitions from around the world, and the winners got {…}

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iSING! Suzhou & The Philadelphia Orchestra to Present ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

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iSING! Suzhou and The Philadelphia Orchestra are set to present “Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems” in Celebration of Lunar New Year on Jan. 6 and 7, 2023. The showcase, compromised of settings to ancient Chinese lyrical texts, will feature by such composers as Huanzhi Li, Maishuo Luo, Sam Wu, Tomàs Peire, Xiao Su, Fernando Buide del Real, Conrad Asman, Cong {…}

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Opera På Skäret to Open with ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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Italian conductor Lorenzo Coladonato is set to appear at the Opera På Skäret in Sweden. The conductor first appeared at the Opera På Skäret opera festival in 2019 conducting a production of “Die Zauberflöte” and was expected to return in 2020 to conduct “Turandot.” However, the pandemic put that on hold. The conductor will now return on July 30 to {…}

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Catherine Hunold, Alessio Arduini & Anaïk Morel Lead Opéra De Saint-Étienne’s 2022-23 Season

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France’s Opéra De Saint-Étienne has announced its 2022-23 season. Here is a look at the operatic productions and the concert performances. Opera Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem is set to be conducted by Giuseppe Grazioli. Clémence Barrabé, Anne-Lise Polchlopek, Sébastien Droy, and Guilhem Worms star. Performance Date: Sept. 29, 2022 Giuseppe Grazioli conducts Mozart’s “Le Nozze {…}

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New York City Opera to Present Family-Friendly ‘The Magic Flute’

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New York City Opera is set to present a family-friendly version of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at schools in Great Neck and New York, NY. Performances will be held from May 3-5, 2022 and will feature a whimsical puppet production starring singers from University of California, Santa Barbara’s Opera Theatre Program, dancers and actors from the UCSB Department of Theater {…}

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Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli Announces 2022 Season

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The Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli in Cremona, Italy has announced its 2022 season. Opera The season opens with Puccini’s “La Faniculla del West” with Rebeka Lokar as Minnie, Angelo Villari as Dick Johnson, and Sergio Vitale as Jack Rance. The cast also includes Didier Pieri, Andrea Concetti, and Valdis Jansons. Pietro Rizzo conducts the production by Andrea Cigni. Performance Dates: Jan. {…}

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Anna Caterina Antonacci & Rebeka Lokar Headline Teatro Grande di Brescia’s 2021 Fall Season

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The Teatro Grande di Brescia, Italy has announced its fall 2021 season featuring four operatic productions. The season opens with Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” starring Rebeka Lokar as Minnie, Angelo Villari as Dick Johnson, and Devid Cecconi as Jack Rance. Valerio Galli conducts the Andrea Cigni production which also stars Andrea Concetti, Didier Pieri, Valdis Jansons, Marco Miglietta, Federico {…}

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iSING! Festival 2024 Review: Mason Bates’s ‘Spring River Flowers by Moonlight’

Jessica Pratt, Carmen Giannattasio, Anastasia Bartoli & Juliana Grigoryan Lead Teatro Comunale di Bologna’s 2025 Season

Alice Tully Hall 2023 Review: iSing! Suzhou’s ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

iSING! Suzhou & The Philadelphia Orchestra to Present ‘Echoes of Ancient Tang Poems’

Opera På Skäret to Open with ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

Catherine Hunold, Alessio Arduini & Anaïk Morel Lead Opéra De Saint-Étienne’s 2022-23 Season

New York City Opera to Present Family-Friendly ‘The Magic Flute’

Teatro Amilcare Ponchielli Announces 2022 Season

Anna Caterina Antonacci & Rebeka Lokar Headline Teatro Grande di Brescia’s 2021 Fall Season