Tenor Granit Musliu makes his house debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Cassio in Otello. The production by Vincent Boussard is lead under the musical direction of Timur Zangiev and can be experienced on October 2, 5, 11 and 19.
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Keri-Lynn Wilson begins her tenure as the musical director of the Kyiv Camerata with a concert tour through Ukraine. The concert program consists of works by Ukrainian composers performed by violin soloist Bohdana Pivnenko, violist Kateryna Suprun, pianist Dmytro Tavanets and Volodymyr Zubytskyi on accordion. The concerts take place on October 4 in the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv, on October 5 in the Philharmonic named after O. Kozarenko in Kolomyia and on October 6 at the Chernivtsi Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Olga Kobylyanska.
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Tenor Edgardo Rocha performs the North American premiere of Ferdinando Päer’s Leonora at the Chicago Opera Theater. Lawrence Edelson’s production under the baton of Dame Jane Glover will be the first fully staged production in the world to use the new critical edition of the score, recently prepared by Bärenreiter. Rocha takes on the role of Florestano and is joined on stage by Vanessa Becerra in the title role. The opera can be experienced on October 1, 4 and 6 at the Studebaker Theater, Chicago.
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Javier Camarena performs a recital with pianist Andrea Grant and the UBC Opera Ensemble in Vancouver on October 3. Organized by the Opera West Society, the performance is followed by Camarena's master class for young singers.
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Rolando Villazón and other musicians such as Daniel Hope, Albrecht Mayer, Daniel Müller-Schott and Charlotte Melkonian will perform classical masterpieces - from Mozart to Dvorák and Bach - with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Stephan Frucht on October 1, 2024 in Düsseldorf. The proceeds will benefit the Ukrainian Red Cross and the refugee work of the Red Cross-Düsseldorf.
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Emily Pogorelc takes the stage in Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana on September 28, 2024. The program features works by Wolf, Mahler, Schubert, and Reimann, including lieder based on texts by Goethe. She is accompanied by the String Quartet of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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Regula Mühlemann sings her Fairy Tales program at the Kempten ClassiX festival on September 28, 2024. The soprano and the Chaarts Chamber Artists perform together for the first time in Germany since they were awarded the OPUS Klassik together in 2023 and present arias from operas by Dvorák, Grieg, Offenbach, and others.
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Tenor Omar Mancini makes his house debut at Semperoper Dresden. He takes on the role of Wagner in Eva-Maria Höckmayr’s new production of Boito’s Mefistofele at Semperoper Dresden. The opera under the baton of Andrea Battistoni premieres on September 28. Further performances can be experienced on October 1, 6, 10, 13, 18 und 24.
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Kathryn Lewek makes her role debut as Micaëla in in Nashville Opera’s season-opening staging of Bizet’s Carmen directed by John Hoomes and conducted by Dean Williamson. Singing opposite her husband, tenor Zach Borichevsky as Don Jose and Marina Costa Jackson as Carmen, Lewek can be heard on September 26 and 28.
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