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[News] Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann & Cecilia Bartoli Headline Salzburg Festival

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The Salzburg Festival has announced its 2018 summer festival.

This season the festival will showcase eight operas in concert and staged performances.

Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri” will make an appearance as well with Cecilia Bartoli in the title role and Ildar Abdrazakov as Mustafa. Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier direct the production which is slated to premiere at the Whitsun Festival in May. 

Plácido Domingo will also headline a concert performance of Georges Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles.” The performances will also feature Aida Garifullina and Javier Camarena. Patrick Fournillier conducts. 

In recital, the festival will showcase Jonas Kaufmann alongside Helmut Deutsch and Rolando Villazón in a program of Songs from the Old and New Worlds. Christiane Karg,  Florian Boesch, Matthias Goerne and Philippe Jaroussky will also be featured in recitals. 

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Young Romanian Soprano Adela Zaharia Wins The First Prize of the Operalia

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Adela Zaharia

Young Romanian soprano Adela Zaharia has won the first prize of the Operalia opera competition, established by Spanish tenor Placido Domingo. She also won the section dedicated to the zarzuela, a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre similar to the operetta. The two awards total USD 40,000.

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[News] Plácido Domingo to Conduct Wagner Opera At Bayreuth in 2018

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Domingo is leading a Wagner opera in Bayreuth during the summer of 2018. The work of choice? “Die Walküre,” an opera he has performed previously in his career.

 In fact, the role of Siegmund remains his most beloved Wagner interpretation, followed by his take on “Lohengrin” and “Parsifal.” Domingo has recorded other Wagner staples including“Tristan und Isolde,” “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” and “Tannhäuser.”
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[News] Tenor Placido Domingo to Head Fort Worth Opera’s New Artistic Advisory Council

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International star tenor and conductor Placido Domingo will head a newly formed advisory council to the Fort Worth Opera, officials announced.

The Fort Worth Opera National Artistic Council will be composed of renowned artists, classical musicians and directors who will help support and guide the company in its artistic and educational efforts, according to a statement Friday.

“This extraordinary ensemble of creative minds and operatic entrepreneurs will keep FWOpera informed of larger trends within the opera world, as the company embarks upon its 72nd year and writes its next great chapter,” the statement said.

The artistic council will seek and evaluate suggestions from the community and serve as a resource and advocate for the opera company.

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Photo Credit: Bela Szandelszky

Plácido Domingo As Macbeth

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On September 22, 2016, Los Angeles Opera presented Darko Tresnjak’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Macbeth. Verdi and Francesco Maria Piave based their opera on Shakespeare’s play of the same name. 

They premiered it in 1847, a few years before the play appeared in Italian. A lifelong lover of the English Bard’s plays, in 1865, Verdi revised and expanded the opera with the help of Andrea Maffei for presentation in Paris. All of this was before Verdi wrote Otello, which he staged in 1887 or Falstaff, his last opera, which premiered in 1893.

In his program article on Macbeth, Music Director James Conlon notes, “It has been observed that Verdi’s opera is a tragedy for the royal couple but a comedy for the witches.”

 

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