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highlights of the upcoming 2023/24 season

7/25/2023

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As I pack my bags to get back on the road, I am thrilled to put out some information and highlights about where I'll be going this upcoming season.

- Prague, CZ where we remount our critically successful new production of Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana, directed by Ondřej Havelka and conducted by Andriy Yurkevych.
- Orlando, FL A new production of Tosca directed by Josh Shaw and conducted by Eiki Isomura. This will be my first time singing in their new world class opera house.
- Baltimore, MD A debut I've waited a long time to make. Eugene Onegin will be performed in concert, in the beautiful Engineers Club.
- Fort Worth, TX After the critical success of Glyndebourne's La bohème last summer, I return to the role of Marcello in my debut with the Fort Worth Opera, which will be directed by Chuck Hudson
- Santiago, Chile I am excited to make my debut with the Teatro Municipal de Santiago as the villainous Baron Scarpia. Details will be announced at a later date.
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A lot of travel, a lot of Puccini, and several other exciting projects which will be announced when they are ready. This season will be quite the experience, and I hope to see many of you there!

#opera #operasinger #baritone #seasonannouncement #puccini #leoncavallo #mascagni #pagliacci #cavalleriarusticana #laboheme #tosca #eugeneonegin #tchaikovsky
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New gallery items!

6/11/2023

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New photos from the new production of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci at the State Opera Prague.

Photo Credits: ​Jan Hromádko
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Daniel Scofield joins the Prague state opera in their new production of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci

4/23/2023

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Daniel Scofield will join the Prague State Opera in their new production of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci where he will portray Alfio/Tonio in a production directed by Ondřej Havelka and conducted by Andriy Yurkevych.

For over 120 years, Pagliacci (Clowns) and Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry), the most famous operas of Italian verismo, a genre that brought to the stage contemporary characters, portraying the life of country folk and low social classes, have been extremely popular among audiences all over the world as magnificent dramatic spectacles featuring impressive chorus scenes, prepossessing arias and ensembles, as well as Mascagni’s beautiful symphonic intermezzo. When, in 1888, the Italian music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno announced a competition for young composers to submit a one-act opera, he could not have had the slightest inkling that the victorious work would become an immortal hit. The 25-year-old Pietro Mascagni sent to the jury his brand-new piece Cavalleria rusticana.  The premiere of the opera, in 1890 in Rome, was a resounding success, which would secure him global fame. Ruggero Leoncavallo, six years older than Mascagni, wrote his debut opera, Pagliacci, in the verismo spirit too. Its premiere, in 1892 in Milan, earned the virtually unknown composer great acclaim. In 1893, Rome saw Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci performed as a double bill, which has ever since been customary worldwide. Pagliacci depicts the tragedy of Canio, an ageing principal of a travelling troupe who, driven out of his mind with jealousy, kills his unfaithful young wife Nedda and her lover on stage during a performance. In Cavalleria rusticana, the frivolous Lola begins an adulterous affair with her former lover Turridu, who, in line with the age-long Sicilian vendetta tradition, is murdered by Lola’s husband. The two operas end identically – with a homicide motivated by jealousy. The new production pairing the two operatic gems has been undertaken by Ondřej Havelka, a versatile artist, renowned as a stage director, actor, singer and musician alike.


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Last minute schedule change

3/25/2023

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Hi everyone! I return to Europe a bit early, as I've been called in to take on a couple weeks of rehearsals as Wotan in Naples for the Teatro di San Carlo's April production of Die Walküre.
Richard Wagner shaped the general thrust of Die Walküre, the opera that he recognised as “the most beautiful thing I have ever composed”, with a very unique speed (only six months!). Actually, this “hurry” is the result of a creative urgency, the same being the basis for the monumental Der Ring des Nibelungen of which Die Walküre is part. It results as an opera with a dramaturgical structure crystallized in the hieratic poetry of the tragic that is very distant from domestic dynamics of the middle-class drama of the 19th century. Die Walküre – through the journey of Wotan with his self-discovery and his showdown, with the extraordinary representation of his interior decline and the incipient twilight of Gods – shows us Wagner in his most extreme and lyric form. Teatro di San Carlo proposes again the legendary staging suspended between Theatre and Image by Tiezzi/Paolini and which won the Abbiati Prize in 2006.
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daniel scofield awarded grant by olga forrai foundation

3/22/2023

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Please join us in welcoming Daniel Scofield, Baritone as one of our newest Olga Forrai Foundation Grantees! Daniel has a busy 2022-23 season, including engagements with Glyndebourne, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Upcoming contracts at the Teatro San Carlo and The State Opera (Prague) are still to come. Follow us to find out more details. Congratulations, Daniel. We are excited to be a part of your musical journey!
Photo Credit: Fay Fox

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LA BOHÈME IN THEATERS STARTING SEPTEMBER 11TH

6/16/2022

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YOU CAN WATCH OUR NEW FESTIVAL 2022 PRODUCTION OF LA BOHÈME IN SELECTED CINEMAS AROUND THE COUNTRY FROM 11 SEPTEMBER 2022.

Additional cinema venues will be added soon. Tickets are on sale from Wednesday 22 June 2022.

More information can be found at 
https://www.glyndebourne.com/events/la-boheme-in-cinemas/
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