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NEWS RELEASES

  • Houston Grand Opera announces its 2012-13 season
    Published: January 26, 2012

    Houston Grand Opera, with Music Director Patrick Summers and Managing Director Perryn Leech, announces its 2012-13 season, headlined by four new productions. The first of these is Puccini’s La bohème, which launches the new season with a new staging by award-winning British director John Caird. To honor 2013’s joint bicentennials of Wagner and Verdi, the coming season juxtaposes Tristan und Isolde – starring Ben Heppner and Nina Stemme in a new contemporary staging by Christof Loy – with a revival of Steven Lawless’s unforgettable take on Il trovatore. British conductor Trevor Pinnock leads a strong international cast in Mozart’s ensemble masterpiece Don Giovanni, while Francesca Zambello’s new production of Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat brings together stars of Broadway and the opera house in a celebration of America’s own contribution to the art. For a more intimate experience, Daniela Barcellona and Lawrence Brownlee star in Rossini’s dramma giocoso, The Italian Girl in Algiers.

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  • NYC Opera funders gift $25 seats for BAM productions
    Published: January 20, 2012

    New York City Opera kicks off a new year and a new era of city-wide productions with La traviata at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Feb. 12-18. The Jonathan Miller production of Verdi's masterpiece is the season's first NYC Opera staging at BAM, and is followed by the US premiere performances of Rufus Wainwright's Prima Donna from Feb. 19-25. As a gift to the City of New York, The Reed Foundation and The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation have bought the remaining seats for all NYC Opera performances at BAM and will offer these seats at a special $25 price to celebrate NYC Opera’s new beginning.

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  • Thomas Hampson tours with “Song of America” & sings in Pittsburgh
    Published: January 19, 2012

    After his successful first-time collaboration with Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic earlier this month, baritone Thomas Hampson takes to the road with a recital program based on his “Song of America” project, featuring music by American composers including Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Charles Ives. Accompanied by pianists Vlad Iftinca and Warren Jones, Hampson sings at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Jan 22), and in Clinton, MS (Jan 24), Nashville, TN (Jan 26), and Sarasota, FL (Jan 30). He then teams up with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Brahms’s A German Requiem and Dvorák’s Biblical Songs (Feb 3–5).

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  • See Gil Shaham’s impromptu Bach recital at NPR Music
    Published: January 18, 2012

    On January 12, master violinist Gil Shaham – Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year – gave an impromptu recital of J.S. Bach’s exuberant solo Partita No. 3 at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Announced only on local classical station WETA and Twitter earlier that same day, the event nonetheless attracted a crowd sufficient to pack the exhibit room in which it took place. And for the majority who were unable to attend, NPR Music captured this live performance with a field recording, now available as a video clip. This reveals the violin superstar momentarily becoming part of the art, bathed in the projections of a multimedia installation during his commanding performance.

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DATEBOOK

  • SatJanuary 28:

    LUCA PISARONI is part of the starry cast in the world premiere of The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche featuring works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others.  [Met; Dec 31, Jan 4, 7, 12, 14, 17, 21, 25, 28, 30]

  • MonJanuary 30:

    LUCA PISARONI is part of the starry cast in the world premiere of The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche featuring works by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others.  [Met; Dec 31, Jan 4, 7, 12, 14, 17, 21, 25, 28, 30]

  • TueJanuary 31:

    DEBORAH VOIGT sings Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung for the first time in her career, in the final installment of the Met’s new Robert Lepage production of Wagner's "Ring" cycle.  [Met; Jan 27, 31, Feb 3, 7, 11]

  • WedFebruary 1:

    Reprising a role that won her huge acclaim at the Vienna State Opera last season, superstar soprano ANNA NETREBKO makes her company role debut as Donizetti's Anna Bolena, the doomed Tudor Queen, in the Met’s season-opening production. Fast-rising Philadelphia-born tenor STEPHEN COSTELLO performs the role of Lord Percy in the new production by David McVicar.  The October 15 performance will be transmitted to movie theaters worldwide as part of the “Met: Live in HD” series.  [Met; Sep 26, 30, Oct 3, 6, 10, 15, 18, 21*, 24*, 28*, Feb 1, 4; *Netrebko not performing]

  • WedFebruary 1:

    SUSAN GRAHAM returns to Carnegie Hall for a solo recital with her frequent collaborator pianist Malcolm Martineau in a program that includes Bizet’s “Chanson d’avril”. [CH]

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