Piotr Beczala makes his debut as Andrea Chénier at the Salzburg Festival. The concert performance under the direction of Marco Armiliato takes place on August 25, 2025.
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Rolando Villazón graces Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, with a piano recital on August 23, 2025. Alongside his regular pianist and collaborator, Sarah Tysman, Villazón presents Serenata Italiana, a program of Italian vocal music ranging from the early masters to the soulful canzoni, including works by Scarlatti, Bellini, Tosti among others.
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Tenor Stanislas de Barbeyrac will perform the role of Siegmund in Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre at the Salzburger Festspiele on August 24 and 25, 2025. He will be joined by soprano Elza van den Heever as Sieglinde and bass-baritone John Relyea as Hunding. The Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will also present […]
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Athanasia Zöhrer steps in at short notice to take on the leading role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata at the Chemnitz Opera House on August 20, 2025. This performance is a revival of the production directed by Anja Kühnhold, which premiered on May 31, 2025, and in which the soprano already made […]
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Serena Sáenz can be seen as Violetta in a concert performance of excerpts from La Traviata at Copenhagen's Tivoli. Together with the Tivoli Copenhagen Phil, tenor Leonardo Capalbo and baritone Mattia Olivieri, she presents the best moments of Verdi's masterpiece. Henrik Schaefer conducts. The event takes place on August 21, 2025.
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Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo makes her first appearance at the Edinburgh International Festival in a recital with pianist Sophia Muñoz. The program consists of works by Mahler, Bartók, Tesori among others and takes place at The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, on August 22, 2025, at 11:00am.
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Baritone Thomas Hampson steps into the role of Giorgio Germont in Verdi’s La traviata, set against the stunning backdrop of the Schlossberg stage in Graz. He shares the spotlight with soprano Nicole Chevalier as Violetta and tenor Xabier Anduaga as Alfredo. The summer production, part of the celebrated open-air opera tradition at the Kasematten, will […]
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Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson leads the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra on this year’s Summer Tour, uniting musicians in support of Ukraine’s resilience and cultural identity. The tour begins in Warsaw at Teatr Wielki on August 14, followed by Wrocław on August 16, Lucerne Festival on August 18, Vilnius on August 20, and Jūrmala on August 22. The orchestra continues with two performances at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest on August 25 and 26, followed by a concert in the esteemed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on August 27, and concludes at London’s Cadogan Hall on August 29. This summer’s program includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Dvořák’S Symphony No. 8 alongside works by Ukrainian composer Kolomiiets, Wagner, Strauss and Bruch.
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Rolando Villazón is the star guest at the Night of Opera at the historic moated castle of Raesfeld on August 9 and 10. At the open-air concerts, he joins festival:philharmonie westfalen and the festival:chor under the direction of Michael Zlabinger to present a program ranging from the dramatic sounds of Verdi to the lyrical masterpieces of Mozart.
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