Jan 1, 2025 · The curtain rose on Egyptian tombs. In the center, a rope came down and with it an archeologist. As he reached the bottom to get off the rope, he fell to the ground, the sound of his body crashing over the delicate violins that opened the prelude to Verdi’s Aida.”

Dec 28, 2024 · By Jennifer Pyron. MANAGING EDITOR & WRITER. Jennifer Pyron is Managing Editor & Writer for OperaWire. Her work covers a wide range of opera performances and festivals in NYC and Europe. She’s been with OperaWire since 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Nov 12, 2024 · In a recent interview with director Damiano Michieletto at the Venice production of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” he said: “At its heart it is a journey into fantasy. It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by the intrusion of supernatural elements into the realistic ...

Dec 23, 2024 · It is time to wrap up the year and look back at our favorite moments and performers. After releasing our favorite performances of 2024 and showcasing our rising stars of the year, it’s time for OperaWire’s annual tradition of naming our top 11 singers of the year, performers that we thought stood out.Performers who had major breaks, headlined major productions or simply had some of the ...

Dec 30, 2024 · Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s “The Listeners” is one of the most anticipated operatic events of the 2024-25 Season. The work will tell the story of a schoolteacher, Claire, who is driven nearly mad by an unending, low-frequency hum that she hears.

Dec 7, 2024 · Navasard Hakobyan. The Armenian baritone has been the toast of the competition circuit over the past two years. In 2023 he won the third Prize and Don Plácido Domingo Ferrer Prize of Zarzuela at the Operalia World Opera Competition and in 2024 he won the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and the Dallas Opera’s National Vocal Competition. He also participated in the Queen Sonja ...

Dec 6, 2024 · (Photos: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s “La Bohème” celebrated a new season of success thanks to Kensho Watanabe at the podium and a stunning cast of favorites, including Ailyn Pérez, Dmytro Popov, Boris Pinkhasovich, Bogdan Talos, Emily Pogorelc, Gihoon Kim, and Donald Maxwell. Conductor Kensho Watanabe’s Midas Touch Conductor Kensho Watanabe, who made his Met ...

By David Salazar. Prior to creating OperaWire, DAVID SALAZAR, (Editor-in-Chief) worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he interviewed major opera stars including Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Vittorio Grigolo, Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazon among others.

This season’s premiere of Met Opera’s “Tosca” features Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, in the titular role, marking her 100th Met performance.Her Met debut was in 2004 as Olympia in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” and her performances leading up to this season have all been unforgettable, especially Kurzak as Tosca.

Nov 5, 2024 · Vero Beach Opera has announced its 2025 season. First up is “La Traviata” starring Meryl Dominguez as Violetta Valéry, Matthew White as Alfredo Germont, Nelson Martinez as Giorgio Germont, Pascale Spinney as Flora Bervoix, Charise Courtney as Annina, Anthony (Tony) Capizzi as Gastone de Letorières, Adam Partridge as Barone Douphol, Nicholas Dieux as Marchese d’Obigny, and Chancelor ...