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Happy 56th birthday soprano Anne Schwanewilms
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“In over nine years you’ve never posted an opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,” no one has ever said.
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Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps
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Semyon Bychkov conducts the opening performance of the 2024 Bayreuther Festpiele with Andreas Schager, Camilla Nylund, Günther Groissböck, Christa Mayer, Olafur Sigurdarson, and Birger Radde
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John Brancy, Deepa Johnny, Anthony León, Mariana Flores, and Alex Rosen lead a recent performance from Aix-en-Provence conducted by Leonardo García Alcarón
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This July, Munich played host to hordes of football fans in town for the European Championship—and arguably the two finest working sopranos today.
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Born on this day in 1921 tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano
Raphaël Pichon conducts Pene Pati, Karine Deshayes, Marianne Crebassa, Lea Desandre, Emily Pogorelc, and Nahuel di Pierro in a recent performance from Aix-en-Provence
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Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Susan Graham
Federico Maria Sardelli conducts Cecilia Molinari, Teresa Iervolino, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Theodora Raftis, and Manuel Amati in a live broadcast from the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca
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Born on this day in 1909 soprano Licia Albanese
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Fabio Luisi conducts Jacquelyn Wagner, Valentina Farcas, Airam Hernández, and Goran Juric in a live broadcast from the Festival della Valle D’Itria in Martina Franca
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Born on this day in 1936 soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen
Antonio Pappano conducts Christopher Maltman, Christopher Purves, Sean Panikkar, Marina Prudenskaya, Kiandra Howarth, and Wiebke Lehmkuhl in a performance recorded in London last fall
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Gábor Takács-Nagy conducts Peter Mattei, Golda Schultz, Tommaso Barea, Anna El-Khashem, and Rebecka Wallroth in a live performance from the Verbier Festival
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Philippe Jordan conducts Federica Lombardi, Emily D’Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, and Christopher Maltman in a performance from last month in Vienna
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