Judit Kutasi returns to San Francisco Opera as Ulrica in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera in September 2024. This new production, directed by Leo Muscato and conducted by Eun Sun Kim, opens the 2024-25 season. Kutasi performs on September 6, 11, 15, 18, 21, 24, and 27. This production marks Music Director Eun Sun Kim's continued exploration of Verdi's operas.
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Elene Gvritishvili opens her season with Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 14 at Moscow Rassvel Hall on September 5, 2024. Gvritishvili takes on the soprano part and performs alongside bass Ilia Tatakov and im Spiegel chamber orchestra under the baton of Fedor Beznosikov.
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Tenor Jonah Hoskins takes the role of Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at Semperoper Dresden. The production by Grischa Asagaroff is lead under the baton of Daniele Squeo. The opera can be experienced on September 4, 7, 15 and 21.
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Tenor Omar Mancini performs Beethoven’s 9th symphony in Turin together with the orchestra and choir of Teatro Regio Torino under the auspice of the international music festival MITO Settembre Musica. Mancini is joined on stage by soprano Salome Jicia, mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino and bass Adolfo Corrado. The concert is lead under the baton of conductor Michele Spotti and takes place on September 6 at Piazza San Carlo in Turin.
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Rolando Villazón presents Serenata Latina recital with harpist Xavier de Maistre in Steinfurt on September 1. The program brings together vocal music from Villazón’s home continent, including a varied and extremely moving selection of Latin American canciones in new arrangements for harp accompaniment.
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Emily D’Angelo’s second solo album for Deutsche Grammophon, freezing, comprises seventeen songs drawn from the folk tradition, art song and beyond. The Canadian mezzo-soprano offers a personal take on music that spans five centuries, ranging from songs by John Dowland and Henry Purcell; Rebecca Clarke, Zoltán Kodály, W.C. Handy and Philip Glass; to recent works by Randy Newman, Jeanine Tesori, Cecilia Livingston, “Adrian Ira” Kramer and US band Ween. D’Angelo is joined on freezing by Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (electric guitar) and Jonas Niederstadt (bass guitar, synth, percussion). The album is released on August 30th on Spotify, Apple music, Tidal and other platforms.
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Rolando Villazón and the pianist Sarah Tysman present their Belcanto program in Kiel on August 30. As a part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the recital features arias and songs by Alessandro Scarlatti, Vincenzo Bellini, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernesto de Curtis and others.
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The bass Amin Ahangaran takes part in this year’s Salzburg Young Singers Project which is a high-powered platform for the promotion of young singers. Accompagnied by the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under the baton of Leo Hussain the participants of this year come together in a final concert which takes place in the House for Mozart in Salzburg on August 30th.
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Joseph Calleja performs at the 74th Dubrovnik Summer Festival on 25th August in front of the Cathedral in Dubrovnik. Joseph Calleja will be the featured soloist alongside soprano Sonya Yoncheva and bass Ante Jerkunica, accompanied by the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under conductor Ivan Repušić.
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