Christine Goerke, Nicholas Phan & Melody Moore Lead Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

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The Baltimore Symphony announces the 2023-24 season featuring Jonathan Heyward in his first season as Music Director. David Danzmayr conducts Christine Goerke in a program that includes Anna Clyne, Barber, and Sibelius. Performance Dates: Oct. 21 & 22, 2023 A baroque Christmas will include Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” Händel’s “Messiah,” and more with Baroque masters at their most irrepressibly joyful and {…}

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Francesco Meli, Melody Moore & Kevin Puts Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will get a chance to hear a debut album by one of the world’s great tenors, a recording of one of Puccini’s most beloved works, a world premiere recording of a great contemporary opera, and many more. Madama Butterfly Lawrence Foster expands his Puccini discography on PENTATONE with “Madama Butterfly,” together with the Coro & Orquestra Gulbenkian. {…}

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Ludovic Tézier, Melody Moore, Sasha Cooke & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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This week audiences will be able to hear a new recording of one of Puccini’s beloved operas, world premiere recordings, and one of the most acclaimed baritone in the industry. Here is a look at the new releases of the week. La Fanciulla del West PENTATONE releases Puccini’s “La Faniculla del West” conducted by Lawrence Foster. The new recording features {…}

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Melody Moore Headlines ‘Salome’ With Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

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(credit: Jiyang Chen) Bard College Conservatory Orchestra is set to perform a semi-staged rendition of Strauss’s famed “Salome” on April 3 and 5, 2020. The work, which was written by Lachmann, will be directed by R. B. Schlather with Leon Botstein conducting the Bard Conservatory Orchestra. Melody Moore will headline the production and will be joined by Jay Hunter Morris {…}

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Melody Moore, Xiaomeng Zhang Headline Opera Naples’ ‘Don Giovanni’ Cast

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(credit: Jiyang Chen) Opera Naples has announced its casting for its final production of the 2019-20 season. The company has revealed that Norwegian conductor Rune Bergmann will lead Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni” on April 29 and 30, 2002 at the Artis-Naples Center. In the title role, audiences will hear Xiaomeng Zhang. David Crawford will appear as Leporello with {…}

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Nicholas Phan, Melody Moore, Joélle Harvey Headline Emerging Voices At Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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(Credit: Arielle Doneson / Nicolas Phan Facebook / Jiyang Chen) Tenor Nicholas Phan has co-curated “Emerging Voices” with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The event kicks off on Jan. 13, 2020 and runs through the 24. The event features a total of six concerts as well as a number of world premieres by such composers as Nicolas Bacri, Iva Bittová, {…}

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Melody Moore & Carmela Remigio Showcase New CD/DVD Releases – July 22

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Three new releases will be seen this week featuring some rarely performed works. La Donna Serpente Piero Pretti, Carmela Remigio, Erika Grimaldi, Francesca Sassu, Anna Maria Chiuri, and Roberto de Candia star in a Alfredo Casella’s opera conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. Naxos releases the production from the Teatro Regio di Torino. Eduardo e Cristina Naxos releases the rarely performed Rossini {…}

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LA Opera to Present Live Simulcast of Verdi’s ‘Aida’ Starring Latonia Moore & Russell Thomas

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(Credit: Cory Weaver/Metropolitan Opera) The Los Angeles Opera will present simulcast for Verdi’s “Aida” on June 4, 2022. The performance stars soprano Latonia Moore, tenor Russell Thomas, bass Peixin Chen, baritone George Gagnidze, bass Morris Robinson, and soprano Melody Moore. The work will be conducted by James Conlon. Using nine HD cameras, the company will transmit the showcase live from {…}

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CD Review: Gordon Getty’s ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’

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The score of Gordon Getty’s “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” breathes all the unpretentiously sweet melancholy of its many predecessors – from James Hilton’s 1933 novella of the same title to subsequent adaptations as, among others, radio plays and lavishly cast movie musicals. Yet it is not exactly the feel-good opera advertised in Pentatone’s press release; rather, the eponymous Mr. Chips – {…}

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Christine Goerke, Nicholas Phan & Melody Moore Lead Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-24 Season

Francesco Meli, Melody Moore & Kevin Puts Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Ludovic Tézier, Melody Moore, Sasha Cooke & Jakub Józef Orliński Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Melody Moore Headlines ‘Salome’ With Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

Melody Moore, Xiaomeng Zhang Headline Opera Naples’ ‘Don Giovanni’ Cast

Nicholas Phan, Melody Moore, Joélle Harvey Headline Emerging Voices At Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

Melody Moore & Carmela Remigio Showcase New CD/DVD Releases – July 22

LA Opera to Present Live Simulcast of Verdi’s ‘Aida’ Starring Latonia Moore & Russell Thomas

CD Review: Gordon Getty’s ‘Goodbye, Mr. Chips’