Joseph Calleja, Javier Camarena & Ramón Vargas lead Opera Naples’ Festival Under the Stars

As part of the Verdi Chorus’ 39th season, the Fox Singers will present a concert entitled “A Serenade To Music” at Santa Monica’s First Presbyterian Church on February 25 at 7:30 p.m. Selections by Debussy, Fauré, Copland, and sequences from Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Puccini’s “Tosca,” and...

Opera Parallèle is set to present the West Coast premiere of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s opera “The Shining.”. Based on the iconic novel by Stephen King, the opera will be presented from June 2 to 4 in a new production The opera will also be presented in a new chamber orchestration created by the composer, at the Blue Shield of California Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

(Credit: Mart Sohl/ Metropolitan Opera ) Fathom Events is set to present encore screenings of Verdi’s “La Traviata” from the Metropolitan Opera on Feb. 15, 2023. The opera stars Nadine Sierra, Stephen Costello, and Luca Salsi with Daniele Callegari conducting Michael Mayer’s production. Renée Fleming hosts the performance.

Italian conductor Michele Spotti has been nominated as Music Director of Marseille’s Opera House and Philharmonic Orchestra. Marseille’s Mayor Benoît Payan and the General Manager of the Opéra de Marseille Maurice Xiberras announced the news and noted that Spotti will start in his new role during the 2023-24 season, succeeding the current Musical Director, Lawrence Foster.

The TENET Vocal Artists, led by Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, is set to present TENEbrae: Lassus’ Lagrime di San Pietro. The sacred motets, which are among Orlando de Lassus’ finest compositions, will be presented on Feb. 25 and held at St. Paul’s Chapel at Trinity Wall Street. TENET’s singers will be joined by brass ensemble Dark Horse Consort in a special performance featuring the Flemish composer’s entire collection of motets from the late Renaissance.

Guild Opera Company has announced that it will present Puccini’s “Tosca” on Jan. 27 and 28, 2023 at River of the Valley in Canoga Park, California. The opera will be headlined by Emma Berggren as Floria Tosca, Felipe Prado as Mario Cavaradossi, Carlos Oliva as Scarpia, Haocheng Sun as the Sacristan, Adam McCrory as Cesare Angelotti, Carlos Gomez as Spoletta, Alexei Helmbock as Sciarrone, and Lily Berthold as the Shepherd.

The National Children’s Chorus is set to launch an opera division and the new VAIL OPERA CAMP Initiative. The organization announced that it would appoint Jonathan McCullough as its Opera Program Director with Dylan F. Thomas set to take on the role of Opera Program Coordinator. McCullough is a...

Glyndebourne has announced that three artists will be part of the organization’s Jerwood Young Artists Programme in 2023. The three singers include mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy, bass-baritone Michael Ronan, and bass Jamie Woollard. Ronan performed with Glyndebourne in a production of “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” and covered roles in “La...

Juan Diego Flórez has canceled his recital at the Kennedy Center. The tenor took to social media and said, “I am so sorry to announce that regrettably, I have to cancel my concert tomorrow at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC due to a sudden throat infection. We are already looking for a replacement date, and I hope to be back in Washington very soon. Now I need to rest and I hope to get better for my upcoming concerts. Thank you for your understanding!”

(Photo credit: Prudence Upton) The stories on which Puccini based his much-loved opera “La Bohème” (Henri Murger’s “Tales from Bohemian Life”) were set in Paris in the 1830s. Puccini and his librettists distilled from Murger’s diverse and diffuse vignettes of life amid the crowded echelons of poorer Parisian society a throughline of love and dying among four young struggling artist-friends and the lovers of two of them.

The Jette Parker Artists are set to present Händel’s “Arminio” this April. The work will open on April 20 at the Linbury Theatre. Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol will direct a production starring Gabrielė Kupšyte in the title role; Sarah Dufresne as Tusnelda; Josef Jeongmeen Ahn as Segeste, Michael Gibson as Varo, and with guest artists, Isabelle Peters as Sigismondo, Kamilla Dunstan as Ramise, and Kamohelo Tsotetsi as Tullio. André Callegaro conducts the Early Opera Company.

Toledo Opera and Toledo Spirits are set to host “Get Into the Spirit of Opera” on Jan. 31, 2023. The showcase will shine a spotlight on the opera company’s upcoming production of “The Merry Widow.”. “Toledo Opera is excited to be producing this comedic operetta –...

Vladimir Gorokhov, Deputy Artistic Director of Moscow’s Helikon Opera, has died at the age of 47. According to Opera Magazine, Gorokhov died of a heart attack. Born in the city of Yasny on June 7, 1976, Gorokhov entered the Orenburg Musical College in the vocal department and went on to be a radio host, editor of youth programs of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Orenburg. He was also a correspondent for the Orenburg regional newspaper New Generation.

On Jan. 22, 2023, baritone Enric Serra died at the age of 83. The Gran Teatre de Liceu announced the news writing, “it is with great sadness that we say goodbye to baritone Enric Serra (83). He made his debut in the 1966/67 season with ‘Carmen’ and was followed by dozens of operas, zarzuelas, concerts… in an almost uninterrupted way exceeding more than 300 performances.”