Wiener Staatsoper Announces 2020-21 Season
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its upcoming 2020-21 season.
The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its upcoming 2020-21 season.
In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis that is gripping the world--and keeping so many people in quarantine--the Metropolitan Opera managed to pull off a brilliantly executed music coup.
For all you lovelorn, “live opera”-lovers, the Met is coming to the rescue from COVID-19 this afternoon, Saturday April 25, at 1pm New York time, with a gala concert featuring over 40 artists performing direct from their homes around the world.
Launched in 1931, the Met's Saturday matinee broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical radio series in American broadcast history.
The Teatro alla Scala has announced its upcoming streams of opera productions.
It's never going to compete with the thrill of being part of the audience at a one-of-a-kind live performance, but there are a great many possibilities for enjoying filmed live opera performances that can be streamed for free online these days.
In these crazy days when no theatres are open to the public, the Live in HD series on PBS is a lifeline to the Met; last Friday, on PBS' Great Performances (on WNET in New York, at least) there was this fall's TURANDOT with a first-rate cast.
I admit this is an absolutely personal, totally one-sided view of what gave one man opera thrills last year and what I will look back on with delight.
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has selected the semifinalists for the 32nd annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers Concert of Arias, to be presented in the Wortham Theater Center on Feb.
I know it takes a leap of faith for the Met to schedule something outside the ABC operas--AIDA, BOHEME, CARMEN plus a TOSCA, TURANDOT and a few others--and go for something a little more off the beaten track.
Get a first look and check out reviews for the Met Opera's The Queen of Spades! Tchaikovsky's eerie thriller of imperial Russia has its first performances at the Met since 2011.
Yusif Eyvazov will sing Hermann in the performances of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades on November 29 and December 2 and 5, replacing Aleksandrs Antonenko, who has withdrawn due to illness.
After a successful first year, ARTE Opera embarks on its second season in October 2019.
Turandot begins performances at the Metropolitan Opera this week and we have a first look for you.
The Met launches its 2019a?"20 Live in HD season with Franco Zeffirelli's classic production of Puccini's Turandot on October 12.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, conducts Puccini's majestic Turandot, the maestro's first Puccini opera with the company, in performances beginning October 3, 2019.
The 2019-2020 season of The Met: Live in HD will open at the Warner Theatre on Saturday, October 12 with Puccini's TURANDOT at 12:55 pm in the Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.
The Hungarian State Opera Orchestra is the oldest theatre orchestra in Hungary.
Yusif Eyvazov will sing Calàf in the October 3, 6mat, 9, and 12mat performances of Puccini's Turandot, replacing Roberto Aronica, who has withdrawn for personal reasons.
With seven opera works, two ballet programs, a concert, two matinees as well as several special events, the Vienna State Opera will start the new season 2019/2020 in September 2019, the last season in which Staatsoper director Dominique Meyer and ballet director Manuel Legris are responsible.