Javier Camarena News

Well, no one can say that the Met doesn’t have guts. After the tepid response that subscribers gave its Las Vegas version of Verdi’s RIGOLETTO by Michael Mayer, no one would have suspected that they’d come up with a version of Donizetti’s LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR that made anything else it’s produced look tame. And while the new LUCIA isn’t something that will send every Met attendee into quivers of excitement--I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many pros and cons discussed at an intermission before--it also won’t send them to sleep either.

The Metropolitan Opera will present an audacious new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which moves the bel canto masterpiece from 18th-century Scotland to a present-day town in the American Rust Belt, with nine performances April 23–May 21, 2022.

The 2021-22 season of The Met: Live in HD will continue with Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor on Saturday, May 28 at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.

Lucia di Lammermoor is undoubtedly, together with L’elisir d’amore, the most famous opera by Gaetano Donizetti and the most performed throughout the world. Thanks to a 1985 donation by the Perolari family, the city of Bergamo was able to acquire the autograph score of this opera, which was first performed at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples in 1835. The score is preserved in the Mai Library. In a few weeks this precious manuscript will travel across the ocean for the first time to be exhibited at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York directed by Fabio Finotti on the occasion of the new, highly anticipated production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. The production will be conducted by Riccardo Frizza, who is also the music director of the Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo .

The Metropolitan Opera will present an audacious new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which moves the bel canto masterpiece from 18th-century Scotland to a present-day town in the American Rust Belt, with nine performances April 23–May 21, 2022.

La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional interpretará un variado repertorio compuesto por la Sinfonía No. 39 en Mi bemol mayor, K. 543, de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Divertimento, de Jacques Ibert, y tres rags, de Scott Joplin, bajo la batuta de Jesús Medina, director huésped, el viernes 8 y el domingo 10 de abril, a las 20:00 y 12:15 horas, respectivamente, en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes, en el marco de la estrategia #VolverAVerte de la Secretaría de Cultura federal y del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal). 

The Dallas Opera will welcome world-renowned tenor Javier Camarena to the Winspear Opera House stage on Saturday, March 26, at 7:30pm. The recital, with pianist Ángel Rodríguez, will include beloved Neapolitan and Latin songs, and famous arias by composers including Verdi and Donizetti, for which Camarena has become known.

One of the premiere singers of our time, superstar Mexican tenor Javier Camarena returns to LA Opera for a pair of recitals with Cuban-born pianist Ángel Rodríguez.

The Metropolitan Opera today announced its 2022–23 season, which features seven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Opening Night is September 27 with the company premiere of Cherubini’s Medea, starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role alongside tenor Matthew Polenzani in David McVicar’s new staging, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organizations, has announced tickets are on sale for the II Festival Under the Stars. Conducted by Artistic Director Ramón Tebar and featuring the Naples Festival Orchestra, the II Festival Under the Stars will take place March 11-20 with performances at Cambier Park and the Wang Opera Center.

After the successful first half of the 2021–22 season and a planned February break, the Metropolitan Opera will return with a slate of three new productions and 12 classic revivals for its spring season that runs February 28–June 11.

The Season opens with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, directed by Oliver Mears – his first as Director of The Royal Opera. This production sees Verdi’s masterpiece as a modern morality play that pits power against innocence, beauty against ugliness, in a pitiless world of luxurious decadence, corruption and social decay.

Mexican tenor Javier Camarena has withdrawn from all Rigoletto performances. The role of the Duke of Mantua will be performed by Italian tenor Francesco Demuro. 

Soprano Sonya Yoncheva performed a live concert on Saturday, February 27, 2021 from the Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. 

La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) interpretará la Sinfonía núm. 36, Linz, de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; el Tríptico botticelliano, de Ottorino Respighi; la versión de cámara de Sensemayá, de Silvestre Revueltas, y los Tres bosquejos latinoamericanos, de Aaron Copland, bajo la batuta del director huésped Jesús Medina, el domingo 7 de noviembre a las 12:00 horas en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes. 

The excitement of the Peterborough Players Grand Restart continues with the return of the Arts on Screen series, featuring the Met: Live in HD. At long last, the Met's celebrated series of high-definition simulcasts returns with a lineup of ten dazzling performances.

The Dallas Opera has announced four new additions to its 2021-22 lineup. Check out the new additions here!

Fathom Events is partnering with the Metropolitan Opera to bring The Met: Live in HD, the Met's award-winning series of high-definition live cinema transmissions, to movie theaters nationwide for its 15th season.

The Royal Opera's 2021/22 Season opens with a new production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, directed by Oliver Mears – his first as Director of The Royal Opera.

El tenor mexicano Javier Camarena regresará el próximo 30 de septiembre a la Sala Principal al Palacio de Bellas Artes para ofrecer el recital Tiempo de cantar, acompañado de los pianistas Ángel Rodríguez y de la joven revelación mexicana María Hanneman, destacada estudiante del Conservatorio Nacional de Música.