Tenor Joseph Calleja appears in Croí na Féile, the 75th Anniversary Concert of Wexford Festival Opera, alongside soprano Ermonela Jaho, mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona, and bass Giorgi Manoshvili. The artists perform operatic arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Massenet, Rossini, and other composers, accompanied by the Wexford Festival Opera Orchestra under the baton of Daniele Callegari. The […]
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Jonah Hoskins returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Bevins in the world premiere of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo, with a libretto by Royce Vavrek based on George Saunders’s Booker Prize–winning novel. Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, the new production features Peter Mattei as Lincoln, Christine Goerke as the Reverend, Anthony Roth Costanzo as Miss Elise Traynor, Ryan McKinny as Vollman, Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Baron, Janai Brugger as Mrs. Francis Hodge, Joshua Blue as Thomas Havens, and Craig Colclough as Mr. Baron. Everett Sobers and Michael Hurst share the role of Willie Lincoln. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts, with Steven Osgood leading the performances on 31 October and 14 November.
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Cameron Shahbazi and Svetlina Stoyanova join the China Philharmonic Orchestra for a semi-staged performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare at the 29th Beijing Music Festival. Shahbazi takes on the role of Tolomeo, with Stoyanova as Sesto alongside Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen in the title role. Conducted by renowned Handel specialist Laurence Cummings and directed by Noa Naamat, the performance takes place on October 18 at the Poly Theatre in Beijing.
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