Richard Wagner News

Single tickets will go on sale exclusively ONLINE at www.sarasotaopera.org Thursday, August 1st, 2013for Sarasota Opera's 2013-2014 Fall and Winter Season. Celebrating its 55th consecutive Season, Sarasota Opera continues its tradition of assembling international talent to perform a mixture of classic favorites paired with rarely performed works of artistic excellence in the beautiful historic Sarasota Opera House.

Washington National Opera (WNO) opens its 2013-2014 season with a production honoring the 200th birthday of one of opera's most renowned composers: Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, September 15-27 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. This epic romantic drama stars Deborah Voigt as Isolde and Ian Storey and Clifton Forbis as Tristan, and will be seen in a production new to Washington directed by Neil Armfield in his WNO debut. WNO Music Director Philippe Auguin leads the WNO Orchestra in interpreting some of Wagner's most passionate and powerful music.

Simon Callow will perform a one-man show Inside Wagner's Head, inspired by the life of composer Richard Wagner, Sept. 3 at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre, with an official opening Sept. 6, for a run through Sept. 29.

Nach der Sommerpause startet das Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden am Samstag, 31. August 2013 ab 14.00 Uhr mit einem Theaterfest, zu dem große und kleine Theaterfans von den Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern aller Sparten und Werkstatten herzlich eingeladen sind.

The nominations for the 2013 Helpmann Awards have been announced simultaneously at events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth. This is the first time the Nominations events were held concurrently in 6 cities and a first for Adelaide, Hobart and Perth.

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) is pleased to announce initial details on its 2013-14 Mainstage Series of concert performances. Encompassing over 40 different concerts, this series begins with a concert production of Verdi's grand opera Don Carlos on Sept. 22, 2013, and concludes with the annual concerto competition-winners concert on April 11, 2014.

Kander and Ebb classic a well-performed redux at Playhouse on Park.

The Third Annual Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day at the Kimmel Center opens its doors at 11 a.m. and begins with a FREE Children's Hour with PNC Grow Up Great allowing youngsters to experience the King of Instruments.

On the brink of its 10th birthday, the ever-adventurous Peak Performances is daring its performers to step into new arenas during its 2013/14 season, September 19, 2013-June 15, 2014.

The Third Annual Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day at the Kimmel Center opens its doors at 11 a.m. and begins with a FREE Children's Hour with PNC Grow Up Great allowing youngsters to experience the King of Instruments.

The MET Orchestra concludes its 2012-2013 season at Carnegie Hall with the much anticipated return of Music Director James Levine leading the orchestra today, May 19 at 3:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Maestro Levine is set to conduct the prelude to Act I of Wagner's Lohengrin; Schubert's Symphony No. 9, 'Great'; and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, with pianist Evgeny Kissin. Maestro Levine last performed at Carnegie Hall with the MET Orchestra on Sunday, April 10, 2011 with Mr. Kissin.

He was a passionate art dealer. Countless interesting encounters and events coined a life during which he compiled a very exquisite art collection. Now this unusual collection of the Munich art dealer Harry Beyer, who passed away last fall, will be sold at Ketterer Kunst.

For Rhapsody in Blue (June 1 & 2), one of the most popular American concert works, conductor Bramwell Tovey will take to the piano to play Gershwin's beloved jazz-infused Piano Concerto. Before leading the orchestra in Elgar's Enigma Variations- a series of charming musical sketches about the composer's closest friends -Tovey, an eloquent host, will share some of the unsolved mysteries of the work's "secret" contents. The June 2nd performance is at the George Weston Recital Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts and also features Bernstein's "Overture" to Candide.

Indianapolis Opera is set to present Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, tonight, May 10 & the 12th, 2013 at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indianapolis. The Flying Dutchman, a three-act opera, captures legends of a ghostly ship and a cursed sea captain in search of true love. See director/designer Joachim Schamberger's stunning vision come to life through the use of cutting edge projection technology and world-class singing.

Sarasota Opera has announced its 2013 - 2014 Fall and Winter programming which will mark the company's 55th consecutive season of performing grand opera on the Florida gulf coast. Highlights will include the return of some of Sarasota Opera's most acclaimed productions, the Sarasota Opera premiere of Verdi's Jerusalem as part of the ongoing Verdi Cycle, and the debut of new concerts to the Sarasota Opera Concert Series.

The Flying Dutchman Overture by Richard Wagner (from the opera, Der fliegende Hollander 1943. Based on Heinrich Heine's retelling of the legend in his 1933 satirical novel The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski and a stormy sea crossing that Wagner made from Riga to London in July and August 1839).

Seattle Opera's 2012/13 season concludes in May with a double bill of compelling twentieth-century operas, both new to the company: La Voix Humaine, by Francis Poulenc, and Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica. Both these one-act operas follow fascinating women who must grapple with despair as they meet their fate; but the two works, like the composers who created them, are extremely different. In Poulenc's sensual monodrama, a woman stumbles through a minefield of emotions as she attempts to stay connected to her ex-lover over the telephone. Puccini's mystical tragedy tells the story of a young nun who learns of the death of the son she was forced to abandon. She kills herself yet miraculously passes into a state of grace. Performances begin tonight, May 4 and run through May 18.

Renowned soprano Renee Fleming completes her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series with two concerts in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, tonight, April 26 and May 4.