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Corona Serenades: Q&A with Rebecca Louise Dale, soprano (UK)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 26 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Rebecca Louise Dale soprano (UK), singer for Corona Serenades. Rebecca Louise Dale is a British vocal artist and opera director. She graduated as a soprano from Trinity College of Music. In 2011 she completed the opera course at the Advanced Performers Studio and has worked with leading directors, conductors and performers. Her operatic roles included Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Opera Vera), Adina in L’elisir d’amore and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (Opéra de Baugé), Ninetta in La Finta Semplice (Opera at Home), Lucy in The Telephone and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (Open Door Opera) and Frasquita in Carmen (Impact Opera,…

The Met to live-stream an all-star At-Home Gala on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT

By Newswire on 24 April 2020 Newswire, Opera

Update: April 25: Join La Scena Musicale staff on Facebook for our real-time comments. Visit metopera.org to see the Gala and go to this Facebook post to add your comments. Free concert to feature more than 40 leading Met artists performing live from their homes around the world via Skype New York, NY (April 13, 2020) —The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream what it is billing as an At-Home Gala on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT, featuring performances by many of the company’s most prominent artists, live from their own quarantines around the world. Hosted by General…

Corona Serenades : Q&A with Nadine Benjamin, soprano (Great Britain)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 23 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Nadine Benjamin, soprano (Great Britain), singer for Corona Serenades Hailed by Opera Now as one of “a new generation of sopranos who are destined to have impressive careers,” Nadine Benjamin won the inaugural Fulham Opera Robert Presley Memorial Verdi Prize in 2015. An English National Opera Harewood Artist, Nadine made her debut with the company in 2018 as Clara (Porgy and Bess) followed by Musetta (La bohème). Nadine’s roles include Aida, Cio-Cio-San, La Contessa, Nadia (Tippett’s The Ice Break), Desdemona, Violetta, Tosca, Ermyntrude (Mascagni’s Isabeau) and Amelia (Un ballo in maschera) and Rosalinde. In concert, Nadine has performed Berg’s…

Corona Serenades: Q&A with Erica Lee Martin, signer songwriter (Canada)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 22 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Erica Lee Martin, singer and songwriter (Canada), singer for Corona Serenades Erica Lee Martin is a singer, songwriter, actor and producer from Montreal. She attended the Université de Montréal where she received a master’s degree in music. She then moved to London, where she earned a master’s in classical acting from London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Currently living in London, Erica writes and produces music, videos, plays and online content. Among her albums and singles are “Joe,” “Out of the Playground,” “Queen of the World” and “I Push On.” How has the crisis affected you? I…

Anna Netrebko as Aida and Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris in Verdi's "Aida." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera

Met announces Week 7 schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams

By Newswire on 21 April 2020 Newswire, Opera

New York, NY (April 21, 2020)—The Met has announced the Week 7 schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure. Each opera streamed on Fridays is chosen by viewers; the May 1 Viewers’ Choice title is the Met’s classic 1985 telecast of Verdi’s Aida, starring Leontyne Price in the title role, Fiorenza Cossotto as Amneris, and James McCracken as Radamès. All Nightly Met Opera Streams begin at 7:30pm and remain available via metopera.org for 23 hours. The performance are also accessible on all Met Opera on Demand apps. “We’d like to provide…

Heartbeat Opera announces LADY M, an online fantasia of Verdi’s MACBETH (May 11–16)

By Newswire on 21 April 2020 Newswire, Opera

HEARTBEAT OPERA—the daring young indie opera company whose unconventional orchestrations and stagings of classic operas have been called “a radical endeavor” by Alex Ross in The New Yorker—concludes its sixth season with its first adaptation of Verdi: LADY M, a reimagined and re-orchestrated work-in-progress, envisioning the story of Macbeth through the eyes of Lady Macbeth. In light of COVID-19, Heartbeat Opera takes its LADY M rehearsals and performances online. Rather than cancel its production, the company launches a 10-day Remote Residency (April 20–May 1) with their artists rehearsing at home, followed by a series of intimate Virtual Soirées through Zoom video conferencing from May 11-16. The full production arrives in Spring 2021. Each 45-minute Soirée…

CORONA Serenades Concert Week 1

By La Scena Musicale Team on 21 April 2020 Art Song, Arts Industry, Classical Music, Employment, Musical Theatre, Opera, Popular Music

CORONA Serenades by La Scena Musicale La Scena Musicale is proud release CORONA Serenades Concert Week 1, a 30-minute compilation of the best performances after the service’s first full week. Click on the image to view the video on YouTube. SONG LIST / RÉPERTOIRE: La vie en rose (Édith Piaf, Louiguy) – Yara Zeitoun, soprano Lamma Bada Yatathanna (traditional Andalusian song) – Yara Zeitoun, soprano Près des ramparts Séville (Carmen / Georges Bizet) – Anne Marie Sheridan, mezzo-soprano Alma Mía (Bola de Nieve) – Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano Di provenza il mar il suol (La Traviata / Giuseppe Verdi) – Christopher…

Corona Serenades: Q&A with Kara Covey

By La Scena Musicale Team on 17 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Kara Covey, soprano (United States), singer for Corona Serenades Kara Covey’s 2019-2020 engagements include the title role of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with Texas Concert Opera, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) with the Varna Opera Festival, Micaëla (Carmen) with the Mediterranean Opera Festival, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) with Varna State Opera and Teatro Malinka, Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) with Texas Hill Country Opera, Billie in (Speed Dating Tonight!) with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana) with Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Mimì and Musetta (La Bohéme) with the Morelia Opera Festival and the Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Varna State Opera. She has been granted a position in the Fargo-Moorhead Opera’s Gate…

Giorgia Fumanti joins La Scena Musicale as a spokesperson for CORONA Serenades

By La Scena Musicale Team on 17 April 2020 Art Song, Arts Industry, Classical Music, Employment, Musical Theatre, Opera, Popular Music

Giorgia Fumanti, one of the top classical crossover artists in the world, will join the roster of singers participating in CORONA Serenades, an initiative of La Scena Musicale designed to bring the joy of music to people in a time of adversity. The service is free for front-line care workers and those infected by the Coronavirus. ABOUT GIORGIA | ORDER | MEDIA “This is a pivotal moment for people all over the world,” the Quebec-based soprano said. “The challenges are immense and we are all only human. And as humans we need music.” GIORGIA FUMANTI A native of Tuscany, Giorgia Fumanti discovered her…

Corona Serenades: Q&A with Hugo Laporte, baritone (Canada)

By La Scena Musicale Team on 15 April 2020 Interviews, Opera

Meet Hugo Laporte, baritone (Canada), singer for Corona serenades Acclaimed for his velvety timbre and outstanding stage presence, Hugo Laporte has won prizes at the Belvedere Competition, OSM Manuvie Competition, Canadian Music Competition, Prix d’Europe and Marmande competition and earned many grants and engagements through the Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques. In January he sang the title role of The Phantom of the Opera in its official French version in Montreal and Quebec City. Hugo will return to the Opéra de Montréal in the role of Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Opéra de Québec in a main role to be announced. Recent appearances include Albert…

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