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Renée Fleming, Béla Fleck to perform together at Carnegie Hall after dropping out of Kennedy Center

Renée Fleming, Béla Fleck to perform together at Carnegie Hall after dropping out of Kennedy Center

NEW YORK — Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, who both dropped out of Kennedy Center appearances after President Donald Trump took over the venue, will give a joint concert at Carnegie Hall as part of a 2026-27 season that also will include a Philip Glass symphony he withdrew from the National Symphony Orchestra. Renée Fleming, Béla Fleck to perform together at Carnegie Hall after dropping out of Kennedy Center The season also will feature the venue’s first complete performance of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Fleming and Fleck will present an evening of Appalachian folk music on Dec. 3, Carnegie announced Thursday. Plans for the program began in 2025, before they withdrew last month from Kennedy Center appearances. Fleming and Fleck also are scheduled to perform the program this May 23 at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and are discussing other possible cities. Gianandrea Noseda, whose National Symphony appears displaced by Trump abruptly shuttering the Kennedy Center for a two-year reconstruction, will lead the Zurich Opera orchestra in concert performances of the four-opera “Der Ring …

Soprano Asmik Grigorian to lead ‘Carmen’ and sing mezzo-soprano role this summer

Soprano Asmik Grigorian to lead ‘Carmen’ and sing mezzo-soprano role this summer

NEW YORK — Asmik Grigorian is reaching a new low – in a positive way — and doing it on one of the world’s top stages. Soprano Asmik Grigorian to lead ‘Carmen’ and sing mezzo-soprano role this summer A star soprano, she will sing the title role next summer in Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” a mezzo-soprano touchstone, at the Salzburg Festival. “I thought if I want to do ‘Carmen’ I need to do it now because I don’t want to do when I will be 54,” the 44-year-old Grigorian said ahead of a concert this weekend at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Maria Callas, Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman and Angela Gheorghiu all recorded Carmen but never sang the complete role on stage. Ana María Martinez and Danielle de Niese are the most notable sopranos in recent years to have sung live performances of the famous seductress, while Victoria de los Ángeles took it on late in her career in the 1970s, and Geraldine Farrar and Rosa Ponselle performed it decades earlier. Grigorian is to sing eight “Carmen” …