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Kiandra Howarth, Charlotte Bowden & Hanna Husáhr Headline OperaVision’s January 2022 Streaming Lineup

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(Credit: Chris Christodoulou) OperaVision has announced its streams for the month of January. Polly Graham’s production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” from the Royal College of Music kicks off the streaming slate. The opera features Jamie Woollard as Sarastro, Michael Bell as Tamino, Charlotte Bowden as Pamina, and Clara Barbier as Die Königin der Nacht. The cast also includes Dafydd Allen, {…}

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Ravenna 2024 Review: ‘Hail! Bright Cecilia’ & ‘Dido and Aeneas’

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(Photo: Zani-Casadio) Following on from the previous day’s performance of Monteverdi’s “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria,” Ravenna’s Teatro Alighieri continued with a production of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” coupled with “Hail, Bright Cecelia,” presented by the same cast under the musical direction of Ottavio Dantone. The fact that Pier Luigi Pizzi, who had been responsible for the lackluster staging {…}

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Ravenna 2024 Review: Il Ritorno Di Ulisse In Patria

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(Photo: Zani-Casadio) In his program notes, the director, Pier Luigi Pizzi, writing about “Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria,” stated that “the opera speaks for itself,” adding, “we must not induce or force its interpretation… It is up to the audience to confront it, to think about it, and to decide for themselves whether or not it is worthwhile.” Even {…}

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Ravenna Festival Announces 2024 Season

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Italy’s Ravenna Festival has announced its 2024 season. Here are the vocal performances. The season will include the summer program which runs from May 11 through July 9 and the opera trilogy which runs from Nov. 15 to 21. Ottavio Dantone conducts the Accademia Bizantina and the Philharmonia Chor Wien in Haydn’s “The Creation.”Soloists include Charlotte Bowden, Martin Vanberg, and Andre Morsch. {…}

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Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2023-24 Review: Don Giovanni

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© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Trigger warning: Mozart aficionados, look away now. One might think Wolfgang Amadeus to be somewhat overrated, and the fact that he was hugely prolific, widely acknowledged to be a prodigy and is almost globally asserted to have been a genius, does little by way of endearing his music to my ear. I {…}

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Mozartists to Present ‘1773 – An Opera Kaleidoscope’

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The Mozartists are set to present “1773 – An Opera Kaleidoscope” on Nov. 2, 2023 at Cadogan Hall. The event, which is part of the MOZART 250 series, will feature Mozart’s 26th symphony alongside music by Paisello, Berezovsky, Mysliveček, Haydn, and Schweitzer. Per the official website, the 26th Symphony’s original intention is questioned by many musicologists who wonder whether it {…}

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Mezzo-Soprano Mathilde Ortscheidt Wins Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 14th Cesti Competition

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© Die Fotografen French mezzo-soprano Mathilde Ortscheidt has been named the winner of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music’s 14th Cesti Competition. Ortscheidt wowed the jury with arias “Dille, che nel mio seno serbo” from “Arianna in Creta” by Georg Friedrich Handel and “Ferri, ceppi, sangue, morte” from the opera “L’incoronazione di Dario” by Antonio Vivaldi. British soprano Charlotte Bowden came {…}