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It is difficult to imagine a better team than conductor Gustavo Dudamel and director Peter Sellars to allow Wagner’s score to freely and mystically float through the Walt Disney Concert Hall uninhibited by stage mechanics and repurpose every inch of the space to paint reverberating aural images.
The Power of Destiny opens a series of operas that Giuseppe Verdi wrote for a foreign commission.
In October, the new production of Richard Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov and conducted by Christian Thielemann, celebrated its premiere at the sold-out Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Kevin Puts's The Hours, Saturday, December 10 at 12:55 pm ET. The Hours will be presented in the Warner Theatre's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.
The Zurich Opera House announced the extension of Gianandrea Noseda's contract as General Music Director through the 2027 - 28 season. Noseda began his tenure as General Music Director of the Zurich Opera House in September 2021.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Verdi's La Traviata, Saturday, November 5 at 12:55 pm ET.
The Warner Theatre has announced a series of lectures which will be presented before The Met: Live in HD Opera simulcasts. Lectures are complimentary with a Met Opera ticket purchase.
The Royal Opera House has announced the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as Music Director of The Royal Opera. Hrůša will assume the position of Music Director Designate with immediate effect and will begin his tenure as Music Director in September 2025.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 16th season with the company premiere of Cherubini's Medea on Saturday, October 22, at 12:55 pm ET.
The Warner Theatre has announced a series of lectures which will be presented before The Met: Live in HD Opera simulcasts. Lectures are complimentary with a Met Opera ticket purchase.
Distinguished international maestro Anthony Negus has arrived from the UK to conduct Wagner's Siegfried in Concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre, on 25 September. Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, one of the biggest productions in all the performing arts and the greatest challenge for any opera company.
The Canadian Opera Company's 2022/2023 season kicks off with an early masterpiece from one of the world's greatest composers, The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner.
Seattle Opera will continue its 2022/23 season with Richard Wagner’s sensual epic, Tristan and Isolde. Building on the proud tradition of Wagner productions in Seattle, Tristan and Isolde brings Wagner to the McCaw Hall stage for the first time since 2016.
Both compositions by Krzysztof Pastor, each in their own way, play on our moods and emotions with a pure choreographic form, the art of neoclassical dance, the colors of space and the play of lights, to the music of the great masters: Schnittke, Górecki and Wagner.
NYU Skirball presents John Jasperse Projects, in the world premiere of Visitation, a new dance that is part seance and part exorcism, on Friday, September 9 and Saturday, September 10 at 7:30 pm.
The Cape Symphony has an exciting slate of new performances scheduled for the upcoming 2022-23 season, designed to inspire joy among audiences. Guests at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center will 'tour' Australia with the ongoing Passport series; drop in on the Roaring '20s and the Romantic era; and revisit musical moments from childhood.
Parsifal is the last music drama written by Richard Wagner. Its final act may very well feature the master’s most powerful piece of music. Now you can experience it as a concert – complete with brilliant soloists, the Norwegian National Opera Chorus and the Norwegian National Opera Orchestra!
Between October 2023 and February 2025, La Monnaie presents a new production of Wagner's tetralogy, conducted by music director Alain Altinoglu and directed by Romeo Castellucci.
After two years of online academy activities, the Orchestre de la francophonie (OF) is returning to its in-person educational mission from July 4 to July 29. This season, exceptionally, the OF is proposing a chamber music academy, with a progressive return to in-person events leading to a full orchestral academy in 2023.
After two years of online academy activities, the Orchestre de la francophonie (OF) is returning to its in-person educational mission from July 4 to July 29. This season, exceptionally, the OF is proposing a chamber music academy, with a progressive return to in-person events leading to a full orchestral academy in 2023.
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