Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days.
7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s
Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.
8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents
The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Opera s upcoming season featuring special guests and a performance by tenor, Lawrence Brownlee, who got his start in Seattle Opera’s young artist program.
The Big Opera Show is hosted by actor, director, and emcee Rebecca M. Davis with performers including Kenneth Kellogg and Karen Vuong. No fee to attend but donations made during the event will allow Seattle Opera to keep singing until it is safe to gather again. Register and view here.
Dutch National Opera Presents DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN
This is the first time Die ersten Menschen is being performed in the Netherlands.by BWW News Desk
This June, Dutch National Opera will present a new production of Die ersten Menschen by Rudi Stephan. The German composer (1887-1915) was only 28 years old when he died at the front in the First World War. He had just completed Die ersten Menschen at the time. The opera was given its posthumous world premiere in 1924 and has only been staged sporadically over the past century (the last time was in 1988). It can now be seen in the Netherlands for the first time. With his staging of Die ersten Menschen, Spanish theatre and opera director Calixto Bieito makes his debut at Dutch National Opera. François-Xavier Roth will conduct the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Dutch National Opera will perform Die ersten Menschen as part of the Holland Festival. This production will replace La damnation de Faust, a project that proved too large-scale un
The winners of ICMA 2021 20/01/2021
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) today announced the Awards for 2021. German soprano Edita Gruberova is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado is Artist of the Year, Turkish pianist Can Cakmur is Young Artist of the Year. The Discovery Award is awarded to 14-year-old German violinist Maya Wichert.
Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings is the Label of the Year. A Special Award is conferred to Drazen Domjanic, General Manager of the Sinfonieorchester Liechtenstein as well as founder and Manager of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and to violinist Ingolf Turban.
And the bands played on: the best classical releases of 2020 Andrew Clements
Opera and concert life has been forced into suspended animation for much of this year, but the classical recording industry has pressed on regardless, with little obvious slowing in the rate of new releases. By and large, the trends of the previous few years continued: the proliferation of smaller niche labels continued to come up with the more interesting repertoire while the output of leading brands became steadily less adventurous.
Studio recordings now tend to be much rarer than those taken from live performances for opera. The re-emergence of Naive’s survey of Vivaldi’s operas will have pleased baroque enthusiasts, but the year’s most notable mainstream releases were Britten’s Peter Grimes conducted by Edward Gardner (studio-made), and Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten under Christian Thielemann (from the Vienna State Opera). The most hyped new opera set of the year, Verdi�