At the end of February, start of March this year, the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe is presenting a Händel festival, ...
American soprano Jacquelyn Stucker will be performing in Philip Venables’ “We are the Lucky Ones” at Amsterdam’s Opera ...
Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi is described as possessing a “deeper dark voice” and has been predicted to be ...
First of all, the choice made to cast Buzza and Battistelli in the roles at all seem an odd choice given the amount of other young singers there who hold much higher competencies in both singing, ...
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The Berkshire Opera Festival announces its 10th anniversary season. A free family concert kicks off the 2025 season.
“Il Segreto di Susanna” is an operatic gem; and, in addition, stands as the only composition by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to boast some kind of posterity, however tepid. An opera intermezzo, it takes up ...
Diversity initiatives might be coming to an end in the United States’ Federal government and discrimination seems to be okay again, per the U.S. President’s latest decrees, but several opera companies ...
National Sawdust’s Sparks & Wiry Cries will present two events this February. On the 7th, the organization will showcase its ninth annual “songSLAM” which showcases the talents of 15 composers, ...
“Stinney: An American Execution” spotlights the agony of the injustice of the 1944 wrongful execution of George Stinney Jr., the youngest person to be legally executed in America. The opera was ...
It would be unrealistic to expect a new production of Bizet’s masterpiece to reveal anything that has not already been presented many times before. The best one can reasonably hope for would be a ...