Opera 2023

Pedro Lavirgen Gil (born on July 31, 1930 in Bujalance, Andalusia; died on April 2, 2023 in Madrid) was a Spanish operatic tenor. He was one of the greatest singers of his time.

Pink Floyd was an English rock band formed in 1965. With her music and the visual design of her records and stage performances, she created a new style. The unusual name goes back to the blues musicians Pink(ney) Anderson and Floyd Council, who were still alive at the time the band was founded.

Ljiljana Molnar-Talajić (Bosanski Brod, 30. December 1938. - Zagreb, 17. September 2007 she was a Bosnian and Croatian opera singer, soprano and music educator.

I GIVE YOU MY HOME is a site-specific chamber opera inspired by Rose Standish Nichols and the Nichols House Museum in Boston MA that premiered June 3, 2022.

In the last decade, a number of important manuscripts have been discovered in the archives of Genoa, including the Messa solenne by Saverio Mercadante.

Archipel presents a beautiful and captivating legacy recording of Brahms Symphonies 2 & 4.

Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka is one of the leading opera singers of our time. Since her international breakthrough at the Salzburg Festival in 2009 under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Rebeka has been a regular guest at the world's most prestigious concert halls and opera houses, including the Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Opera National de Paris, the Metropolitan Opera (New York), the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London), the Bavarian State Opera (Munich), the Vienna State Opera and the Zurich Opera House. She has worked with leading conductors including Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Valery Gergiev, Fabio Luisi, Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Daniele Gatti. Their repertoire ranges from baroque, bel canto and Verdi to Tchaikovsky and Britten.

Today, Krassimira Stoyanova is one of the leading singers in her field, celebrated by the public and the press alike.
Born in Bulgaria, she studied singing and violin at the Plovdiv Conservatory.

Tenor Bryon Grohman has received international recognition for his performances of opera, oratorio, and ensemble repertoire.

At the time I am writing this review, the coronation of Charles III as monarch of the United Kingdom, succeeding his deceased mother, Elizabeth II, is just a few weeks away. It is very likely that part of the coronation ceremony will be a performance of Zadok the Priest, one of the four Coronation Anthems that Handel composed in 1727. This piece has been part of each coronation ceremony since then.