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Italian opera to close Shanghai Spring International Music Festival

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The Italian opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia will be the closing production for this year"s Shanghai Spring International Music Festival on April 14. Jointly produced by Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Teatro Sociale Como in Italy, the production of Gioachino Rossini's comic opera features an international cast, conducted by Carlo Goldstein, and directed by Ivan Stefanutti. "This collaboration has provided a precious opportunity for our students […]

todayApril 13, 2024 4

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Fred Again Creates Frenzy With Surprise Show at Sydney Opera House

Fred Again has done it again, dropping a surprise performance on Australians and selling it out in next-to-no-time. The British producer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist used the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a prop for a social post Tuesday morning (Feb. 27), which doubled as the big reveal for his pop-up show later that evening at the Sydney Opera House. The performance at the 2,679-capacity Concert Hall “immediately sold out,” according […]

todayFebruary 27, 2024 4

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Yankovskaya departs Chicago Opera Theater. What’s next for the company?

“The Nose” wasn’t planned as Lidiya Yankovskaya’s swan song from Chicago Opera Theater, the company she’s led as music director since 2017.But Dmitri Shostakovich’s absurdist political satire, composed when the composer was in his early 20s, is as fitting a farewell as they come for the conductor. Yankovskaya — named the Tribune’s 2020 Chicagoan of the Year in Classical Music — has raised the profile of COT immensely, her interpretations […]

todayDecember 5, 2023 5

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Chicago Opera Theater Music Director Steps Down

The Board of Directors of Chicago Opera Theater has announced that Lidiya Yankovskaya will step down from her position as Morse and Genius Music Director at the end of the company’s 2023-24 50th Anniversary season. Yankovskaya will continue to lead Chicago Opera Theater’s Vanguard Initiative, the immersive training and residency program for first-time opera composers which she created for the company in 2018. In a statement, the conductor said, “It […]

todayOctober 24, 2023 3

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Sydney Opera House launches special musical tribute via The Monkeys and Revolver to celebrate 50 years of bravery, creativity and wonder

The Sydney Opera House has just released a special musical tribute via The Monkeys and Revolver to mark 50 years of bravery, creativity and wonder at the world’s most celebrated cultural landmark. The musical tribute by Tim Minchin features a cast of Australian artists reminding us of the endless possibilities when you don’t Play It Safe   Made in partnership with creative agency The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song, directed […]

todayOctober 18, 2023 4

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AROUND TOWN: Opera Theatre of the Rockies honors Martile Rowland with music and tributes | Lifestyle

How best to honor 25 years of Opera Theatre of the Rockies? Fittingly, with a full concert including special guest stars singing Mozart, Verdi and Strauss, a reception for donors at Patty Jewett and a gala celebration at Penrose House Garden Pavilion with performances of Puccini, Donizetti and even “Tonight” from “West Side Story.”But there was an even more emotional focus as beloved founder Martile Rowland was stepping down as […]

todaySeptember 10, 2023 3

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Met Opera Musicians Perform at the US Open Men’s Final 

Baritone Will Liverman and the Met Opera’s music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will perform live before the tennis match on September 10, 2023   This event will mark the first time GRAMMY Award-winning opera baritone Will Liverman, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will perform at the US Open. Alongside the Met Opera’s music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on piano, the musicians will play an arrangement of “America the Beautiful/Lift Every Voice and […]

todaySeptember 9, 2023 2

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Central Florida Vocal Arts artistic director Eric Pinder discusses ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Cocaine Bear: The Opera’ | Arts Stories + Interviews | Orlando

click to enlarge image courtesy CFVA The cast of "A Little Night Music," Central Florida Vocal Arts' 11th season opener When Live Active Cultures last checked in with performer-director Eric Pinder in October 2022, Orlando’s most ardent opera and ice hockey enthusiast was in the midst of bringing to life Central Florida Vocal Arts and Opera Del Sol’s post-pandemic production of Hansel & Gretel at the Dr. Phillips Center. Nearly a […]

todayAugust 16, 2023 5

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Cairo Opera Announces Cairo Arab Music, Singing Competition

Sun 06 Aug 2023 | 10:45 PM The Egyptian Minister of Culture Neivin El-Kelany announced that Cairo Opera House is accepting entries from contestants wishing to participate in the upcoming edition of the Cairo Arab Music and Singing Competition, an event which will take place in Cairo from 21 October to November 1.According to Khaled Dagher, the new song competition, accompanied by an instrumental performance, accepts contestants from 18 to […]

todayAugust 6, 2023 2

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