In July 2023, the Teatro Regio in Turin will celebrate 50 years of the historic opening of the theatre building. Back in 1973 the fist opera presented on the new stage was a new production of I vespri siciliani staged by Maria Callas. On July 6, this opera will be played again in a concert version under the baton of maestro Riccardo Frizza. Bass Amin Ahangaran will take over the role of Lord of Bethune.
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This July, Saioa Hernández returns to Teatro Real in Madrid to take on the lead role in Puccini's Turandot. The opera's production is directed by renowned stage director and set designer Robert Wilson. The soprano will be on stage on the following dates: July 5, 8, 11, 15, 18 & 21.
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On the 8th and 9th of July Judit Kutasi will perform with the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester Hannover at the Staatstheater Hannover. The mezzo-soprano will sing Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah and Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D major. Tomáš Hanus will conduct.
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Congratulations to Cameron Shahbazi on winning the Opus Klassik Award in the "Innovative Concert of the Year" category for the Woman.Life.Freedom. benefit concert in support of human rights in Iran, which has been initiated and produced by the artist. The event took place on December 12, 2022 at the Oper Frankfurt. All the raised money went to the non-profit organization Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre, which has been campaigning for more democracy in Iran for many years and documents the human rights violations committed there. The recording of this concert is currently available as a stream on IDAGIO and Deutsche Grammophon's STAGE+.
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Cameron Shahbazi performs in a new opera Picture a Day Like This  from the acclaimed partnership of George Benjamin and Martin Crimp at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. The production is directed by Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma. The premiere takes place on July 5 at the Théâtre du Jeu de Paume. The composer himself conducts the singers and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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Olga Kulchynska makes a reappearance as Natasha Rostova in a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's monumental opera War and Peace at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, the performance will be conducted by musical director Vladimir Jurowski on July 2 and 7.
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Mojca Erdmann Erdmann sings two concerts with Elena Bashkirova under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in Bonn and Bad Honnef on July 1st and 2nd. The programme includes works by W. A. Mozart, Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn and others.
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After her recent role debut as Sœur Constance in Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Dialogues des Carmélites at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Emily Pogorelc returns to the opera house to sing Xenia in Boris Godunov, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. The performances take place on July 4 and 6 as part of the Munich Opera Festival 2023.
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Rolando Villazón will perform two concerts in the series "Les Grandes Voix" on June 27 in Brussels and on June 29 in Paris.
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