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“I accept full responsibility for my actions, and I have grown from this experience.”
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“American soprano Renée Fleming, one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, is donating her personal archives to Juilliard, her alma mater.”
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Opera Gems: The Art of Dramatic Voices
Presented by Grandi Voci Concerts, Matthew Laifer Artists Management, Jason Tramm, MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra. Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall, located at 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY. More information.
New productions of Aida, Die Zauberflöte, and Don Giovanni and Met premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020–21 season.
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
Renée Fleming—stylish dame with a stylish name—who lived by jungle law in a big city and clawed her way to where the money was…
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“Evgeny Nikitin will sing the Dutchman in all performances of the Met’s new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer, replacing Sir Bryn Terfel, who withdraw last week due to ankle surgery.”
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Bryn Terfel has just canceled his appearance in the Met’s new production of Der Fliegende Holländer.
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The Metropolitan Opera today announces two cast changes for its forthcoming production of Verdi’s La Traviata, opening January 10, 2020.
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Eun Sun Kim has been appointed the Caroline H. Hume Music Director of San Francisco Opera, effective August 1, 2021.
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Cecilia Bartoli has been named director of the Monte-Carlo Opera, with her incumbency to begin in 2023.
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La Cieca has only just noticed that the time for the announced first presentation of the New York City’s Opera’s 2019-2020 season has come and gone.
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“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.”
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Opera Lafayette Presents a Unique ‘Leonore’
Beethoven’s Leonore, the centerpiece of Opera Lafayette’s 25th-anniversary season, will be heard in a way no one has had the opportunity to imagine it since 1805. Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield has completed a score based on Beethoven’s extensive sketches for this performance. Monday, March 2.