Tenor Joseph Calleja appears at the Staatsoper Hannover in a festive concert marking the opening of the new season. Calleja will perform arias and duets from Bizet’s Carmen, Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Massenet’s Le Cid, and Puccini’s La Bohème. He is accompanied by the Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover under the baton of General Music Director Francesco Angelico […]
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Bass Günther Groissböck appears as Orest in Richard Strauss’s Elektra at the Edinburgh International Festival. He is joined by Iréne Theorin as Elektra, Vida Miknevičiūtė as Chrysothemis, and Nina Stemme as Klytämnestra. The opera in concert is conducted by Karina Canellakis, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing. The performance takes place on August 23, […]
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Piotr Beczała and Kathryn Lewek sing in a gala concert at the 75th Festival Internacional de Santander. Accompanied by the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra under the baton of José Miguel Pérez-Sierra, the artists present a programme featuring operatic masterpieces by Verdi, Donizetti, Puccini and Bizet.
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Soprano Emily Pogorelc joins the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson during the orchestra’s European tour. Pogorelc performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder in a programme that also includes Bohdana Frolyak’s Gloria and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Performances take place on August 19 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, August 20 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and August 22 […]
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Regula Mühlemann joins the Bern Symphony Orchestra for the traditional Open-Air Concert on Bundesplatz, opening the Bühnen Bern 2026/27 season on 22 August 2026. Conducted by Killian Farrell, Mühlemann appears alongside Fabio Dorizzi in a festive programme featuring works by Edward Elgar, Eric Coates, and highlights from My Fair Lady, The Wizard of Oz, and Carousel.
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Tenor Magnus Dietrich appears as Count Hohenzollern in Hans Werner Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg at the 2026 Salzburg Festival. The concert performance is conducted by Ingo Metzmacher and features the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Georg Nigl in the title role. The performance takes place on 20 August 2026 at the Felsenreitschule in Salzburg.
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Rolando Villazón presents his acclaimed programme "Orfeo son io" together with L’Arpeggiata, soprano Céline Scheen, and Christina Pluhar, who conceived the programme and serves as musical director. Featuring arias and instrumental works by Claudio Monteverdi, Giulio Caccini, Luigi Rossi, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and other composers, the programme explores the enduring fascination of the Orpheus myth through music spanning from the early Baroque to the present day. Following its performance at Musikfest Bremen on 18 August 2026, the programme will be presented at the Rheingau Music Festival on 20 August 2026 in the historic Kloster Eberbach.
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On 16 August 2026, mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey returns to the Salzburg Festival with her acclaimed recital Thousands of Miles, together with pianist Baptiste Trotignon. The programme explores the rich musical worlds of Kurt Weill, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alexander Zemlinsky and Alma Mahler, tracing themes of exile, identity and belonging. Following acclaimed performances on international stages, Thousands of Miles brings together art song, cabaret and theatre music in a deeply personal programme that reflects Kate Lindsey's exceptional storytelling and expressive artistry.
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Piotr Beczała returns to the Grafenegg Festival for a special recital with pianist Sarah Tysman. The programme features songs by Mieczysław Karłowicz, Antonín Dvořák, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff, alongside operatic highlights from Rusalka, Eugene Onegin and The Haunted Manor.
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