Featured Artist
Giacomo Sagripanti
Winner of Opera Awards 2016 as best young conductor, he is considered one of the most interesting conductors of his generation among the international panorama. He began his conducting career in Italy and Germany with his debuts at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Associazione Lirica e Concertistica Italiana and the Lübeck Theatre. He soon caught the attention of houses throughout Europe and has conducted Semperoper in Dresden (Cenerentola), Teatro La Fenice di Venezia (Madama Butterfly) Opernhaus in Zürich (L'Elisir d'amore), Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (Don Carlo), Opéra de Paris (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, Capuleti e Montecchi) Teatro de La
Featured Artist
Carlo Montanaro
Music Director at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw from 2011 to 2014, Italian conductor Carlo Montanaro was discovered by Zubin Mehta, who recommanded him to the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, where he improved his skills under Leopold Hager, Erwin Acél and Yugi Yuasa for three years. Since 2001, Montanaro has conducted opera and concerts in major venues including Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Fondazione Arena in Verona, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Teatro Comunale in Florence, Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma and Teatro Verdi in Trieste (a collaboration which led to a Japanese tour with the Orchestra). Titles
April 6, 2020
Jessica Pratt on the cover of OperaLife
Our beautiful and wonderful Jessica Pratt is interviewed by Alessandro Bugno, talking about opera, her childhood, her family, her hobbies for this month's release of OperaLife magazine. You can read the full interview here: https://operalife.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=987&Itemid=607
March 6, 2020
Maria Agresta on the cover of OperaLife magazine
Maria Agresta is interviewed by Alessandro Bugno, talking about opera, her hobbies, her socia media, family, for OperaLife magazine. A beautiful image of our charming and gentle Maria. You can read in full here: https://operalife.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=961&Itemid=594
February 17, 2020
Aleksandra Kurzak's new album "Desire" to be released on 8th May on Sony Classical
Sony Classical has announced the forthcoming release of Aleksandra Kurzak's new album Desire on 8th May 2020. For her first solo album by Sony, Aleksandra celebrates the great romantic heroines of the operatic repertoire she loves, from Tosca to Leonora, Adriana or Tatiana... ❝ These heroines speak directly to my soul and to my heart, since I was a child.
February 6, 2020
Four GM's artists nominated finalists for Opera Award prizes
Four GM's artists nominated finalists for Opera Award prizes, in three different categories. Maria Agresta as Best Female Singer, Riccardo Frizza as Best Conductor, Zuzana Marková and Xabier Anduaga as Best Young Singer. The shortlist was compiled by an impressive international jury drawn from a range of backgrounds including critics, opera directors, conductors and designers, chaired by John Allison, editor
January 23, 2020
Track from Jessica Pratt's album Serenade has been used in an American series
The American series 'The Morning Show', with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, used a track from Jessica Pratt's album Serenade with pianist Vincenzo Scalera, for background music in a scene with Jennifer Aniston. The aria is Malinconia, ninfa gentile by Vincenzo Bellini. You can find the scene here: https://youtu.be/fCGf0fv0ccg
January 14, 2020
GM Art & Music signs Elizabeth DeShong for Management
GM Art & Music is delighted to announce the signing of the management for american mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong. Opera News wrote of Elizabeth DeShong's performance as Sesto in the Los Angeles Opera's production of La Clemenza di Tito: "Elizabeth DeShong took pride of place as Sesto. Completely unrecognizable in her beard and dingy armor, DeShong sang with the range, expressiveness
December 30, 2019
M° Nicola Luisotti Among the Winners in the Second Edition of the Opera XXI Awards
Nicola Luisotti is one of the winners of the Second Edition of the Opera XXI Awards. The jury chose to award M° Luisotti for Best Musical Direction for his Turandot at Teatro Real in Madrid in 2018. https://www.plateamagazine.com/noticias/8015-nicola-luisotti-sondra-radvanovsky-christof-loy-leonor-bonilla-opera-de-butxaca-o-la-casa-de-bernarda-alba-entre-los-galardonados-en-la-segunda-edicion-de-los-premios-opera-xxi
December 30, 2019
Airam Hernández wins Schaunard Award
Airam Hernández has won Schaunard Award, presented by magazine Place de l'Opera, for best individual performance of the year. Fifteen opera experts nominated twelve artists for the prize, this year for the seventh time. "It is a great honor for me to receive the Schaunard Award for this production, " Airam said. "It was a pleasure to sing this wonderful
December 2, 2019
Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna On the Cover of "Das Opernglas"
Aleksandra Kurzak & Roberto Alagna are pictured together on the front page of the December issue German magazine "DasOpernglas". The feature includes a 6-page illustrated joint interview by Ursula Ehrensberger. "A happy couple in life, experiencing dramatic relationships together on stage, as in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. A conversation about a singer life for two." The magazine (in German) is available in
November 26, 2019
GM Art&Music Signs Tenor Alessandro Liberatore for General Management
GM Art& Music welcomes on board tenor Alessandro Liberatore, who has just signed for General Management with Director Gianluca Macheda. Despite his your age, Liberatore has already made himself known on the most important stages in Italy and abroad, having appeared at Opéra de Paris, Opera di Roma, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Real, Teatro di San Carlo, to name