On July 13, 2024, Serena Sáenz joins opera star Plácido Domingo in an open-air concert as part of the International Music Festival Český Krumlov. The event, with Alessandro Crudele leading the Prague Philharmonia, promises a beautiful evening of zarzuelas and operatic masterpieces such as La Bohéme, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, and others.
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Serena Sáenz sings in an open-air gala concert with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC) and the Orfeó Català on Sant Sebastià beach in Barcelona on July 11, 2024. The soprano is joined on stage by great international voices such as mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham, tenor Freddie de Tommaso, baritone Josep Ramon Olivé, and Catalan singer and guitarist Arnau Tordera. She performs the last movement of the Ninth Symphony by L.V. Beethoven, an aria from La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi as well as the legendary song Barcelona, ​​composed by Freddie Mercury for Montserrat Caballé and the 1992 Olympic Games. Ludovic Morlot conducts.
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Festival Napa Valley kicks off its 18th summer season with a concert featuring Jonathan Tetelman on July 12. Together with South African soprano Pretty Yende he performs a selection of favourite opera arias and duets under the baton of Maestro Carlo Montanaro.
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Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson tours Europe and The United States with the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. This year’s program presents Beethoven’s 9th symphony and Puccini’s Turandot. Beethoven’s 9th symphony is performed in Eglise Saint-Eustache Church in Paris on July 12, in Teatr Wielki in Warsaw on July 14, in Gdynia Shipyard in Poland on July 23, in Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London on July 29, in Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York on August 1 and in John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. on August 4. Turandot is performed as a part of the Baltic Opera Festival in Gdańsk and can be experienced on July 20 and 25.
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In July Regula Mühlemann returns to Dresden to present Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Staatskapelle Dresden at the Semperoper Dresden next to soloists like Camilla Nylund, Michael Volle and Ricarda Merbeth. The concerts take place on 7, 8 and 9 July 2024 under the baton of Christian Thielemann.
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Emily D'Angelo, Olga Kulchynska and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller return to the Bavarian State Opera for the revival of Mozart’s Idomeneo on July 5 and 8. D’Angelo as Idamante sings across Pavol Breslik in the title role in the 2021 production by Antú Romero Nunes. Kulchynska portrays Ilia and Müller takes on the role of Elettra with Ivor Bolton conducting.
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On July 4, 2024, baritone Theodore Platt can be heard in a concert at Wigmore Hall in London, as part of the series “Johnson’s Dictionary: An A – Z of Song”.
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Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez sings a recital at Festival de Beaune accompagnied by orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under the baton of Jérémie Rhorer. The concert is titled « Amours » and the program mainly consists of love songs and arias by Mozart, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Berlioz, Donizetti. The concert takes place on July 5 in Notre-Dame Basilica in Beaune, France.
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Serena Sáenz joins the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča for a series of gala concerts in Austria and Latvia. The Spanish soprano will perform, among other pieces, “Je veux vivre” from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette and a duet from Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the highly acclaimed yearly events, Klassik unter Sternen (‘Classics under […]
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