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Houston Grand Opera presents Jeanine De Bique: In Concert on May 14. Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique will join the HGO Orchestra, conducted by HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers, on the stage of the Brown Theater for an evening of works by Handel and Mozart. This marks De Bique's second appearance this season with HGO, as she also stars as Maria in HGO's live, socially distanced singalong My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music. Described as a "revelation" and "breathtaking from start to finish" (NRC, Netherlands), Trinidadian soprano Jeanine De Bique is recognized...

Live music will return to Aspen this summer. After a quiet 2020 amid the novel coronavirus pandemic and the historic cancellation of last summer’s in-person season, the Aspen Music Festival and School on Thursday announced a 52-day, 150-event lineup for July and August. With vaccines continuing to roll out, virus cases declining and public health restrictions loosening, the Aspen institution’s slate of summer concerts will return for its 72nd anniversary season. “We’re very excited,” festival president and CEO Alan Fletcher said Wednesday. “We truly believe in this season. And we ...

Love, jealousy and magic will be on stage during Palm Beach Opera’s first opera festival. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company moved its 2021 season from the Kravis Center to the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach to better allow for social distancing.  The company will perform Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme" on Friday and Wednesday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "The Magic Flute" on Sunday and Feb. 26, and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" on Tuesday and Feb. 27.  The Palm Beach Opera managed to book some of the major operatic artists fr...

Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and you've worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where you'll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers. But now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. The rewards are still the same — recognition, prize money, possible accepted into a respected training program — but t...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorgetta, and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Luigi. Suor Angelica has Ermonela Jaho in the title role of the nu...