This, of course, would have lead to something of a panic, for Bayreuth and Yuval Sharon's new productions of Lohengrin. Thankfully, a much better prepared Lohengrin has been found at short notice, in the form of the very fine Piotr Beczala. Beczala made his role debut as Lohengrin in 2016 at Dresden, see video below. Besczala is having something of a good year having only this year being announced as the recipient of the International Opera Awards "Best Male Singer" award. The Bayreuth production will see him once again, reunited with conductor Christian Thielemann.
Young artists do Dido and Aeneas
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This week the Young Artists Studio at the Canadian Children’s Opera Company
gave two performances of Purcell’s classic Dido and Aeneas. The YAS is a
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