Centre Stage Artist Management is thrilled to announce that critically acclaimed Russian-Swiss mezzo-soprano Nadezhda Karyazina has joined the roster for general management. Nadezhda Karyazina, winner of the Herbert von Karajan Prize 2025, is "one of the most significant singers and performers of our time." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). With a voice described by The Guardian as “resonant and strong at the top of her range, rich and potent in the contralto low notes”, the “outstanding” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) singer made her triumphant debut as Marfa in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina at the 2025 Salzburg Easter Festival, where she was the “star of the evening” (Austria Presse Agentur) and received rave reviews from press and audience alike.
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Olivia Smith makes her role and company debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Opera Philadelphia. The young soprano sings opposite Timothy Murray in the title role in the new production by Alison Moritz under the baton of Corrado Rovaris. Smith can be heard on April 25, 27, May 2 and 4, 2025.
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Kate Lindsey takes on the leading role of Adso da Melk in the world premiere of Il nome della rosa, an opera based on the novel by Umberto Eco and composed by Francesco Filidei. Lindsey shares the stage of Teatro alla Scala with Lucas Meachem as Guglielmo da Baskerville. Il nome della rosa, staged by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, can be heard on April 27, 30, May 3,6, 10, 2025.
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Soprano Serena Saénz returns to the Vienna State Opera in the revival of Barbora Horákovás production of die Zauberflöte under the baton of Adam Fischer. Once again Serena Sáenz takes the role of Queen of the Night and is joined on stage by Maria Nazarova as Pamina, Cyrille Dubois as Tamino and Franz-Josef Selig as Sarastro. The opera can be experienced on April 25 and 28 and May 2 and 5.
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At the same time in the same place: Exactly 250 years ago to the day, on 23 April 1775, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart conducted the concert premiere of Il re pastore at the Prince Archbishop's Residenztheater in Salzburg. On April 23, 2025 Rolando Villazón as Alessandro, Emily Pogorelc as Aminta and Serena Sáenz as Elisa sing a concert performance of the opera to celebrate this important anniversary at the original venue.
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Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo and conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson come together in a benefit concert for Ukraine with Kyiv Camerata on April 21st in Berlin Philharmonie. The concert presents a variety of works by Ukranian composers such as Zubytskyi, Kozarenko, Stankowytsch, Ljatoschynskyj, Karabits, Rodin and Almashi. Emily D’Angelo can be heard performing a new work by Victoria Vita Polevá “No Man is an Island”.
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On April 19, Mezzo-soprano Emily D‘Angelo sings a concert together with the Tonkünstler Orchester under the baton of Alessandro De Marchi in the Grafenegg Auditorium, Austria. The concert consists of works by Haydn such as pieces from the operas L'isola disabitata, Arianna a Naxos and from Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze.
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Soprano Mirjam Mesak will join the Flanders Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kristiina Poska to perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and Choral Fantasy in Tallinn and Pärnu on April 22 and 23, 2025. She will be joined by a stellar cast of soloists and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.
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Tenor Omar Mancini makes his anticipated house and role debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu as Elvino in La Sonnambula. The production by Bárbara Lluch is lead under the musical direction of Lorenzo Passerini. The tenor can be heard on April 16 and May 17.
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