Sarah Aristidou, Joel Prieto, Sidney Mancasola & Ramona Zaharia Headline Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur’s 2024-25 Season

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The Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur has announced its 2024-25 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. OPÉRA The season opens with “Festival Hip Hop’Era.” Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024 Hélène Guilmette, Valentine Lemercier, Enguerrand de Hys, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Matthieu Lécroart, Floriane Derthe, Antoine Foulon, Geoffrey Carey, and Matthieu Walendzik star in Charles Lecoq’s “La Fille de Madame Angot.” {…}

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London Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 Review: La Rondine

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(Photo: Mark Allen) Puccini called his work “La Rondine” a “commedia lirica,” effectively COMIC opera, but I consider it a TRAGEDY that this work isn’t performed more in the opera house. “La Rondine” comprises some of the most exquisite, emotive music the maestro ever penned. Alas, devoid of the dramatic impact and impetus of his more famous, regularly performed works, {…}

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Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes Announce 2024-25 Season

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(Credit: Tam Photography) Montréal’s Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes has announced its 2024-25 season celebrating its 10th anniversary. The season opens with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem in D minor. Conductor Francis Choinière leads soloists soprano Myriam Leblanc, mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy, tenor Andrew Haji, and baritone Geoffroy Salvas. Performance Dates: Nov. 15 & 16, 2024 The second concert {…}

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Charles Castronovo, Nadine Sierra & Bryn Terfel Highlight New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences get to hear a new album by one of opera’s leading tenors and watch a video of one of Donizetti’s comic gems featuring a leading soprano and a superstar bass-baritone. Voices from the Other Side The new work from composer {…}

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Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Celebrating 22 Years of Sir Antonio Pappano

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A truly packed house, a cast of operatic luminaries and a program of works chosen and compiled by Maestro Pappano himself; a Gala, fit for a KING, surely? Which is just as well because His Royal Highness King Charles III was in the audience as a truly surprise guest of honor, courtesy of a massive covert security operation that even {…}

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Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Carmen

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(Credit: Camilla Greenwell) At the very opening of Damiano Michieletto’s new production of “Carmen,” I was struck by a very vivid sense of déjà vu! Before the curtain rises, a very sombre, spectral lady enters the stage, dressed in black with lace mantilla. For a brief instant, I thought I was back, four days PREVIOUSLY in the same house, where {…}

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Aigul Akhmentshina Headlines the Royal Opera House’s ‘Carmen’ in Cinemas

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The Royal Opera House is set to present Bizet’s “Carmen” in cinemas on May 1, 2024. The company will showcase the new production by Damiano Michieletto and will star Aigul Akhmentshina in the title role. She will be joined by Piotr Beczala as Don José, Kostas Smoriginas as Escamillo, and Olga Kulchynska as Micaëla. The cast will be rounded out by Blaise {…}

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Pacific Opera Victoria Announces 2024-25 Season

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Canada’s Pacific Opera Victoria has announced its 2024-25 season. The season opens with Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” which will star Canadian Andrew Haji, and Jennifer Tarver. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-22, 2024 Rachel Portman’s “The Little Prince” will showcase Emma Parkinson, Ben Butterfield, and Melody Courage. The show will feature a partnership, with Principal Conductor and Chorus Master, Giuseppe Pietraoria {…}

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Aigul Akhmetshina & Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Lead Royal Opera House’s New ‘Carmen’

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The Royal Opera House is set to perform a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” directed by Damiano Michieletto. The opera will be performed between April 5 and May 31, 2024 and will be broadcast on May 1, 2024 in the cinema theatres of over 50 countries. Micheieletto has directed three other productions at the Royal Opera House including “Guillaume Tell {…}

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Sarah Aristidou, Joel Prieto, Sidney Mancasola & Ramona Zaharia Headline Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur’s 2024-25 Season

London Symphony Orchestra 2024-25 Review: La Rondine

Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes Announce 2024-25 Season

Charles Castronovo, Nadine Sierra & Bryn Terfel Highlight New CD/DVD Releases

Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Celebrating 22 Years of Sir Antonio Pappano

Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Carmen

Aigul Akhmentshina Headlines the Royal Opera House’s ‘Carmen’ in Cinemas

Pacific Opera Victoria Announces 2024-25 Season

Aigul Akhmetshina & Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Lead Royal Opera House’s New ‘Carmen’