Matthew Lee, Andrea Mingardi and Matia Bazar in Liguria
Matthew Lee, Andrea Mingardi and Matia Bazar in Ceriale, Liguria – three musical evenings by the sea.
music & opera
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Rossini Opera Festival 2024
As this year’s Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro closes, the programme for the Rossini Opera Festival 2024 is announced.
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A 131-CD collection to celebrate Maria Callas’ 100th birthday
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Maria Callas, Warner Classics will release La Divina: Maria Callas in all her roles on 22 September 2023.
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Renata Scotto dies at 89
Renata Scotto died during the night at the age of 89. Savona, 24 February 1934 – 16 August 2023.
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Olga Peretyatko answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition!
From daughter Maya to Che Guevara, from Hawking to Baryshnikov, from Carmen to Fight Club, soprano Olga Peretyatko reveals offstage passions and opinions.
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Countertenor David Daniels pleads guilty to sexual assault
Countertenor David Daniels and his husband Scott Walters have pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a young singer in 2010.
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Anna Netrebko sues the Met for $360,000
Anna Netrebko’s lawyers seek $360,000 in compensation from the Met where she received the company’s top fee of $17,000 a performance.
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San Francisco Opera’s free ‘In Song’ video portrait series
San Francisco Opera’s free ‘In Song’ video portrait series continues with its eighth episode: In Song: Daniela Mack filmed in Buenos Aires.
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[Interview] Cecilia Gasdìa – I replaced Caballé in Anna Bolena when I was 21… I was crazy
Cecilia Gasdìa talks about her colleagues, nerves, boos, and unintentionally becoming an opera singer.
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[Review] Carlo il Calvo – Fagioli, Lezhneva and Cenčić give explosive performances in Porpora’s opera
Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor/director) was shrewd to cast ‘rival’ countertenor Franco Fagioli to share the stage with him. Julia Lezhneva too was exquisite.
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Soirée Rachmaninoff – dance and music to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great composer
The double anniversary of Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), 150 years after his birth and 80 years after his death, is celebrated at the Nervi and Ravenna festivals.
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New production of Verdi’s Aida opens 100th edition of Verona Arena Opera Festival
Transparent pyramids feature in the new Aida with Anna Netrebko for the 100th edition of Verona’s Arena Opera Festival to be broadcast live worldwide.
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Italian conductor Speranza Scappucci to become Principal Guest Conductor at the Royal Opera
The Royal Opera House has announced that Speranza Scappucci will become Principal Guest Conductor of The Royal Opera from September 2025.
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Darell Moulton – piano expert and singing teacher – has died at the age of 79
Darell Moulton has died at 79. One of the UK’s top piano experts and singing teachers, he taught Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes et al, and tuned for Ashkenazy.
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Lawrence Brownlee’s new album, Rising, is out tomorrow
Rising, Lawrence Brownlee’s new album, sees the tenor commission six of today’s leading African American composers.
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The Florence opera house to sell its vast archive to avoid closure
The Maggio Musicale Theatre in Florence to sell off vast archive to raise €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt left behind after Alexander Pereira resigned.
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La Scala Opera Season 2023-2024
The 2023-2024 Opera Season of the Teatro alla Scala will present 14 productions, 10 of which are new, with a predominantly Italian repertoire.
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Gustavo Dudamel to leave the Paris Opera at end of 22/23 season
The Paris Opera has announced that Gustavo Dudamel will resign as Music Director at the end of the 2022/2023 season for personal reasons.
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news | dance | music & opera
Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 opera and ballet Cinema Season
The Royal Opera House has announced its next Cinema Season with 13 productions, eight of which will be broadcast to screens around the world.
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[Interview] Riccardo Frizza conducts the Verdi Requiem on the 150th anniversary of Manzoni’s death
In Milan’s Duomo on 22 May, Riccardo Frizza will conduct Verdi’s Requiem, exactly 150 years after Manzoni’s death, and 151 years after Verdi conducted the premiere.
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[Interview] Conductor Henrik Nánási – immersing himself in the music
Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási talks about music, composers, a travelling life, musical roots and Rusalka. And tennis.
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The bizarre story of Italian opera house musical chairs – Meyer, Fuortes, Lissner
Italian Opera House directors are being moved around like pawns in a chess game – a tale of government, television and theatre intrigue.
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[Interview] Russian baritone Aleksei Isaev: Music is not politics
Guest author Alisa Alekseeva talks to baritone Aleksei Isaev about being a Russian opera singer at this time.
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[Interview] Talking with soprano Eleonora Buratto about Hoffmann, perfume and spumante
While Eleonora Buratto is singing in Les contes d’Hoffmann in Milan, I talked to her about the opera, her perfume, her charity work, and New Year’s fizz.
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An interview with soprano Virginia Zeani, 1925 – 2023
When Virginia Zeani was 90, we enjoyed a long video call where she talked frankly about career, colleagues, loves, and life as an ‘eternally young’ old lady.
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[Review] Gian Carlo Menotti celebrated in Italy with The Medium and The Telephone
Manuela Custer shines as Madame Flora in The Medium, in a programme celebrating the Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti.
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Two new opera recordings to be released by Warner Classics/Erato
Two new opera recordings are to be released by Warner Classics/Erato later this month: Turandot conducted by Antonio Pappano and Roméo et Juliette conducted by John Nelson.
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LaScalaTv, La Scala’s new streaming platform, is now live
Competitive pricing for La Scala’s new streaming service with live performances and a catalogue of recorded operas, ballet and concerts.
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[Interview] In conversation with Italian tenor Piero Pretti as he returns to La Scala for another debut
I talk to Italian tenor Piero Pretti as he makes another role debut at La Scala. He sings Arrigo in I Vespri Siciliani and chats about the opera, food, and being Sardinian.
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Franco Zeffirelli – The La Scala Years: an exhibition in Milan
Franco Zeffirelli was born in 1923. La Scala anticipates the celebration of his centenary with the exhibition “Franco Zeffirelli – The La Scala Years”.
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