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The Grand Rapids Symphony has announced the release of a new CD of the orchestra’s performances. Featuring music by Richard Strauss and Villa-Lobos, all the music was performed and recorded with live audiences at DeVos Performance Hall featuring the Grand Rapids Symphony conducted by Music Director Marcelo Lehninger.
Ken McConnell, General Director of Tulsa Opera, and Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of Tulsa Opera, announced today that the company’s new production of Mr. Picker’s opera Emmeline to be performed Friday, February 25 and Sunday, February 27 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center has been postponed.
San Francisco Opera has announced plans for the Company's 100th season. As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company's 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera's glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim's music directorship and a renewed commitment to innovation.
As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company’s 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera’s glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim’s music directorship and a renewed commitment to innovation.
On Tuesday, February 1st, Vocal Arts DC presents Will Liverman in concert with pianist Myra Huang.
Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony In the winter and spring of his second season as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi conducts and records Brahms's Second Symphony in a just-announced series of three free performances over two days in February and more.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, led by Music Director Jaime Martín, showcases works by award-winning contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery, Mozart and R. Strauss on Saturday, January 29, 2022, 8 pm, at Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium.
In the winter and spring of his second season as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi conducts and records Brahms's Second Symphony in a just-announced series of three free performances over two days in February (Feb 23–24), and helms a concert version of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin featuring baritone Etienne Dupuis and soprano Nicole Car (April 1–5).
Atelier scénographie autour d’Elektra : Pour la mise en scène d’Elektra présentée au Grand Théâtre en janvier 2022, le metteur en scène Ulrich Rasche a imaginé un dispositif monumental et impressionnant.
Theatro Sao Pedro announces its 2022 season. The lyrical series will include eleven titles: La Serva Padrona; Livietta and Tracollo; The Capulets and the Montechios, by Bellini; West Side Story; Lecture on Waterbirds; Threepenny Opera, by Weill; Ariadne in Naxos, by Strauss; Viva La Mamma, by Donizetti and El Barberillo de Lavapies, among others.
Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel is one of the most frequently performed operas in Germany. Inspired by the Grimm brothers’ popular fairy tale, the libretto was written by the composer’s sister Adelheid Wette, who modified the rather macabre story, adding the characters of the Sandman and the Dew Fairy, as well as the instrumental dream pantomime scene in the forest, and concluding it with the resurrection of the witch’s victims and the happy reunion between the children and their parents.
Electra is the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, king and queen of Mycenae. To avenge the sacrifice of Electra's sister Iphigenia, the queen murders the king who has returned victorious from Troy.
San Francisco Opera Center will showcase the talents of the 2021 class of Adler Fellows in The Future Is Now: Adler Fellows Concert on Friday, December 10. Held in the Herbst Theatre, the concert marks a return to this annual culminating concert of the Adler Fellowship Program following the cancellation of 2020 events due to the pandemic
San Francisco Opera Center will showcase the talents of the 2021 class of Adler Fellows in The Future Is Now: Adler Fellows Concert on Friday, December 10.
A colorful production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance sails into The Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre this January as The Atlanta Opera returns to the mainstage, featuring Atlanta favorite tenor Santiago Ballerini as Frederick and Curt Olds as Major General Stanley.
Conductors Daniele Rustioni and James Gaffigan will lead this season's Metropolitan Opera performances of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, replacing Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The 2022 Season of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo is dedicated to the thirty years since the Mafia massacres, and it's scheduled to open on 20 January with Giuseppe Verdi's Les Vêpres Siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers), conducted by the theatre's musical director Omer Meir Wellber and staged by Palermo-born director Emma Dante.
Emma McGrath, TSO Concertmaster, is the first of the TSO-featured soloists, performing Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 on 11 March 2022. Bruch's beloved concerto is a work that Emma knows intimately having first performed the solo part with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of only 14.
Bryce Davis and Cilliers opened their recital program with Richard Strauss' and John Henry Mackay's uplifting 'Heimliche Aufforderung' ('The Secret Invitation'). This joyous, celebratory composition was the composer's gift to his bride on their wedding day. Bryce-Davis sang it with exquisite vocal colors. Next was Robert Schumann 'Die Lotosblume' ('The Lotus Flower') in which the poet Heinrich Heine described the beauty of the love between the flower and the moon. Bryce-Davis showed the lyric tones of her voice as she told of this delicate love.
From rock to Rossini, Victorian Opera announces its Season 2022 with a year of undiscovered gems, thrilling epics and two world premieres. The state opera company presents eight productions, including three Australian operas.
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