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Lavinia Dames: Debut as Woglinde
On 9 March 2025, the soprano Lavinia Dames will make her debut as Woglinde in Richard Wagner‘s Das Rheingold at the Deutschen Oper am Rhein/Theater Duisburg. The production has been directed by Dietrich W. Hilsdorf and will now return to the stage in a revival series. The chief conductor Vitali Alekseenok will lead the Duisburger Philharmoniker. Further solo parts will be sung by Cornel Frey (Loge), Anna Harvey (Fricka), Stefan Heidemann (Donner), Jussi Myllys (Froh), Ramone Zaharia (Erda), Oliver Zwarg (Wotan) and David Stout (Alberich).
Upcoming performance dates are: 12/28 March 2025 and 4 April 2025.
In summer, Lavinia Dames will return to the Bayreuth Festival as Blumenmädchen/1. Knappe in Wagner‘s Parsifal zu.
(published on 10 February 2025)

Vanessa Porter: RSO-debut in Hamburg
On 13 February 2025 the percussionist Vanessa Porter will return to the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg making her debut with the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Vienna under the baton of Bas Wiegers. She will interpret Francesca Verunelli‘s From Scratch, a piece she already has premiered at the Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik in 2024.
Further pieces of the programme will be Mark Andre‘s Vier Echographien for orchestra and Bernhard Gander’s Blood Beat. The concert will take place in the context of the Elbphilharmonie Visions Festival – a biennale presenting music of the 21st century which will be presented in Hamburg in February. Vanessa Porter has been ECHO Rising Stars – Artist of the season 2022/23 and has been invited to the Elbphilharmonie already twice.
(published on 30 January 2025)

Sarah Maria Sun: Concerts in California
On 7 February 2025 the soprano Sarah Maria Sun will make her debut with the Camerata Pacifica in a concert at the Music Academy in Santa Barbara, California.
Further concert dates are:
9 February 2025, Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks
11 February 2025, The Huntington, San Marino
13 February 2025, Colburn School, Los Angeles
The programme presents Kurt Weill‘s Lied des Lotterieagenten from Der Silbersee, Die stille Stadt, Der Abschiedsbrief, It Never Was You and Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire
(published on 29 January 2025)

Holger Falk: USA concert tour
On 5 February 2025 the baritone Holger Falk will perform Lieder by Franz Schubert and Hanns Eisler with the pianist Steffen Schleiermacher at the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington D.C.. Subsequently, he will sing concerts presenting the unique baroque programme Il Gondoliere Veneziano together with the ensemble nuovo aspetto in Florida, NYC and Connecticut:
7 February 2025, Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville, Florida
9 February 2025, Music Before 1800, Corpus Christi Church, New York City
11 February 2025, Jorgensen Center, University of Connecticut, Connecticut
The gondoliere programme will be performed in the USA for the first time.
(published on 28 January 2025)