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Siemens Arts Program

26th Annual Siemens Türkiye Opera Contest picks best rising opera stars

The Siemens Arts Program has been helping rising stars in Türkiye's opera world gain international exposure through its Siemens Türkiye Opera Contest for over a quarter of a century. This year, the 26th edition of the contest once again welcomed three of the country's finest talents to the podium: Güneş Uluçay (first place), Nazlican Karakaş and Berke Tükenmez (second place) and Emre Parlar (third place).

4. December 2024
Greek National Opera

New production in Athens: Fanny Ardant stages Rachmaninoff’s Aleko at the Greek National Opera, in a double bill with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle directed by Themelis Glynatsis

The Greek National Opera presents a double bill of two one-act operas from the turn of the century. Five years after her remarkable success with Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Fanny Ardant is this time directing Rachmaninov's Aleko.  The revival of the extremely successful production of Bluebeard's Castle bears the signature of Themelis Glynatsis. From November 12, the opera double bill will be staged for six performances in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the GNO at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center under the direction of Fabrizio Ventura. The production will be filmed and broadcast worldwide by Mezzo TV in December, with the support of a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.

18. October 2024
NEUE STIMMEN 2024

Magdalena Lucjan and Alejandro Baliñas Vieites win NEUEN STIMMEN 2024

Magdalena Lucjan from Poland and Alejandro Baliñas Vieites from Spain are the winners of the 20th edition of the NEUE STIMMEN International Singing Competition. In the final in Gütersloh, they convinced the jury composed of world-renowned opera experts. There were also awards for the second and third prize winners. Three exclusive special prizes were also awarded.

14. October 2024
Greek National Opera

Greek National Opera season opening: Iphigénie en Aulide & Iphigénie en Tauride by Dmitri Tcherniakov comes to Athens

The Greek National Opera opens the 2024/25 season with an international co-production with the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the Opéra national de Paris. As one of the highlights of this year's festival season, the production was staged in Aix-en-Provence in the summer and has already wowed the international press and audience there. The renowned Russian director, Dmitri Tcherniakov, will now present Gluck's two operas about the ancient world, Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride, for the first time in Athens in a double bill. The premiere evening is on October 10, 2024 with seven performances in the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the SNFCC. This production is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) [www.SNF.org] to increase the artistic reach of the Greek National Opera.

23. September 2024
NEUE STIMMEN 2024

FACTS – DATA – PEOPLE: NEUE STIMMEN AT A GLANCE

The International Singing Competition will be held for the 20th time in 2024.

4. September 2024
ARD Competition

73rd ARD International Music Competition

From September 3 to 20, 2024 in Munich in the categories Wind Quintet, Vocal, Oboe and Cello

28. August 2024
Greek National Opera (GNO)

“Surpassing limits”: The complete program for the 2024/2025 season

The GNO starts the new season with the first performance of Rachmaninov's Aleko in Greece, new productions of Turandot, Flira mirabilis, La forza del destino, Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride, a co-production with the Royal Opera House of Lucia di Lammermoor directed by Katie Mitchell and many other opera and ballet productions.

3. July 2024
Siemens Arts Program

Dayner Tafur-Díaz wins the Siemens Conductors Scholarship 2024-2026 to the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker

Culminating a selection process at the Berliner Philharmoniker concert hall, Dayner Tafur-Díaz has been chosen as the winner of this year's Siemens Conductors Scholarship. The 26-year-old conductor from Peru will begin working with the Berliner Philharmoniker Karajan Academy on October 1, 2024. The scholarship includes serving as project-based assistant to chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and guest conductors of the Karajan Academy and Berliner Philharmoniker.

10. June 2024
NEUE STIMMEN 2024

NEUE STIMMEN 2024: 20th competition with over 1,000 participants

After the first selection rounds, 627 singers now have the chance to prove themselves to the jury at the worldwide live auditions.

24. April 2024
Griechische National Opera (GNO)

April highlights at the Greek National Opera: Mahagonny and The Loser

Two German-language classics are in the spotlight at the Greek National Opera since the second week of April: Ektoras Lygizos has transformed Thomas Bernhard's novel "The Loser" into a fascinating new piece of music theater, which was first performed at the Alternative Stage on April 11. The exciting new production of "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill started on April 12, directed by Miltos Logiadis and staged by Yannis Houvardas, in the GNO's Stavros Niarchos Hall.

18. April 2024
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