Kathryn Lewek signs Queen of the Night in the new production of The Magic Flute for the 2024 Mandel Opera and Humanities Festival in Cleveland. Lewek performs her signature role with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of its Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, featuring Julian Prégardien as Tamino, Ludwig Mittelhammer as Papageno and Christina Landshamer as Pamina. Performances take place on May 16, 18, 24 and 26, 2024.
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Rolando Villazón returns to the Salzburg Festival to take part in two opera galas. On May 18, 2024 Villazón sings in the staged opera pastiche Une Folle Journée based on the music from Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte to celebrate Mozart and his congenial collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte. On May 20, 2024 Plácido Domingo, who has been performing in Salzburg for 50 years, takes to the stage as part of a gala featuring numerous Operalia prize winners including Rolando Villazón.
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Javier Camarena performs Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona on May 18, 2024. Across the Mezzosoprano Maria Kataeva as Angelina Camarena also presents Rossini’s interpretation of Cinderella on May 21, 24, 29 and & 1 June 1, 2024. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts the production by Emma Dante.
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The soprano Eliška Weissová sings the opening concert of the Mahler Jihlava Music Festival – The Music of Thousands on May 18, 2024. Together with the Hradec Králové Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of David Giménez Carreras Weissová presents Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder and Isolde’s Death from Tristan and Isolde.
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The soprano Hanna-Elisabeth Müller returns to the Vienna State Opera as Eva Pogner in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Hanna-Elisabeth Müller is joined on stage by tenor David Butt in the role of the young knight Walther von Stolzing. The production by Keith Warner is performed under the baton of Philippe Jordan. The performances take place on May 19, 23, 26 and 30.
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"...excellently focused, bronze-colored shining, expressive tenor" - Süddeutsche Zeitung 25-year-old Kosovar Tenor Granit Musliu is among the most promising young singers of his generation. He received his vocal training at the University of Pristina and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. He is a former member of the opera studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper and is currently a part of the ensemble for the season 24/25.
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Centre Stage Artist Management is pleased to welcome Granit Musliu to the roster for general management. 25 year old Kosovar Tenor Granit Musliu is among the most promising young singers of his generation. He received his vocal training at the University of Pristina and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 2021 he became an opera studio member at the Bayerische Staatsoper, joining the ensemble in 2023/24. Roles in the 2023/24 season include: Roderigo (Otello), Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Flavio in Norma, Ruiz in Il trovatore and Festordner in a new production of Pique Dame. Musliu has received a number of awards including the Grand Prix of the Ars Kosova Music Competition, 2nd prize in the 2020 Hamburg Mozart Prize and 2nd prize in the Jorgjia Truja Competition with an invitation to a masterclass with Anna Pirozzi.
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On May 15, Maestra Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts a program consisting of great works by Shostakovich played by Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. The concert begins with the majestic Festive Overture followed by Shostakovich’s 10th symphony. The concert takes place in Auditorium de Bordeaux.
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Mirjam Mesak can be seen in Kirill Serebrennikov staging of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Vladimir Jurowski conducts. The performances take place on May 11, 14, 17, and 21, 2024.
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