Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
A recent announcement on the OPERAWIRE website revealed that the voice contest in the upcoming 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition (beginning June 17) will offer a special new prize in memory of legendary operatic baritone and Delos Artist Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The prize will include an award of $15,000 USD and a performance in the Russian city…
On May 6, it was announced that “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, in partnership with the All-Star Orchestra (ASO) under the baton of prolific Delos recording artist Gerard Schwarz, had won this year’s Emmy® Award in the Special Event Coverage (Other than News and Sports) category. This was the seventh Emmy® won by…
On Monday, it was announced that the 2019 International Opera Awards had selected soprano Asmik Grigorian as Female Singer of the Year and tenor Charles Castronovo as Male Singer of the Year! Ms. Grigorian is the featured soprano in Delos’s audio recording, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow (DE 3517), with distinguished Maestro Constantine…
Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
KRCB Public Radio’s “A Novel Idea” program broadcast an interview with Carol Rosenberger about her new memoir, To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival. Listen below and in the KRCB “A Novel Idea” Podcast in iTunes: To Play Again 2019 Sarton Women’s Book Award Finalist 2018 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Explore…
The International Opera Awards announced their 2019 Nominees and four Delos artists have made the list! Soprano Asmik Grigorian was nominated in the Female Singer category, both Charles Castronovo and John Osborn were nominated in the Male Singer category, and Ildar Abdrazakov was nominated in the Readers’ Choice Award category (cast your vote)! Congratulations to all four…
April 1, 2019 UPDATE The winners have been announced and To Play Again has received a Silver Medal Finalist Award. The Story Circle Network has announced the 2018 Finalists for the Sarton Women’s Book Awards. The Story Circle Network is an international nonprofit community of women writers and the Book Awards are given annually to…
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator has a new interview with Constantine Orbelian in light of his third GRAMMY® nomination, “Best Opera Performance”, for Verdi’s Rigoletto. See his reason for wanting to do a recording of the work, and then read the full interview on mirrorspectator.com: First of all, I love opera and love Verdi. What appealed to…
Delos is proud to announce that the final recording by the late, lamented Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — Rigoletto (DE 3522) —has been nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Opera Recording category. The album was released just days before Hvorostovsky’s untimely death from brain cancer last November. During the great singer’s last two…
Voix des Arts names Stephen Costello’s upcoming Delos release, A Te, O Cara, their Best Vocal Recital Disc of 2018! The sounds that emerge from tenor Stephen Costello’s Delos recording A te, o cara provide bel canto lovers’ ears with copious reasons to rejoice, but it is heart—the hearts of the characters whose music is sung, the heart of the singer…
Mark Abel joined KING FM’s Dacia Clay on the Second Inversion program to talk about his new Time and Distance recording and more. Listen below and see the post on SecondInversion.org! Time and Distance In this spellbinding new album, Abel gives sensitive listeners food for thought, stimulates the ear with his signature fusion of classical,…
November 16 brings tenor Stephen Costello‘s solo recording debut in A te, o cara. The album will come just after his role debut as Don José in Bizet’s Carmen with the Dallas Opera. In celebration of the release, the Dallas Opera will present Stephen Costello in a special Artist Salon/Q&A event on October 25 where…
ICareIfYouListen.com interviews conductor Yuga Cohler about the Asia / America New Music Institute and their new Transcendent recording: “At a certain point, we realized that the music we were creating and performing was of a high enough caliber that it deserved to be documented, so we decided to make Transcendent. … Transcendent contains some of the…
Delos is excited to share that soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton will be joining forces in the San Francisco Opera’s September 8-27 performances of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux! Learn more about the performances, and get tickets at SFOpera.com! UPDATE: September 23 CD Signing Opportunity! What: Sondra Radvanovsky & Jamie Barton CD Signings! Where: Main Lobby, War…
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