The latest opera news, reviews, and production coverage from the Metropolitan Opera and companies around the world.
The Hungarian State Opera's 2025/26 season will feature 385 performances, world premieres by contemporary Hungarian composers, and works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Wagner, with appearances by Anna Netrebko and Joseph Calleja.
By definition, the historical view of the oratorio is that it’s typically religious in nature, performed unstaged and without costumes or scenery.
As the 2025 Summer Festival continues, director Garnett Bruce makes his Merola debut with a fully staged production of Rossini’s rarely performed comic gem, Le Comte Ory.
An evening of the myriad modes of music that constitute the American Experience was celebrated at the Kennedy Center’s production of American Rhapsody.
White Snake Projects will return to The Strand Theatre, June 28, 2025, for the world premiere of To The People Like Us, in a season dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through art.
A rich and lively production of an Ibsen classic--with Grieg's full instrumental music.
Finnish National Opera and Ballet is beginning the recruitment process for a new Chief Conductor, as the term of current Chief Conductor Hannu Lintu expires in July 2026.
The Lord of the Rings opera by Paul Corfield Godfrey, approved by the Tolkien Estate, is now available for pre-order.
It’s not so strange, really, that there’s a serious opera about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
Super show that lightens a very dark subject (corecive control), but does not diminish it
Playwright Peter Danish—a long-time writer and observer of the opera and classical music scene in New York and around the world—wrote LAST CALL, just finishing a limited run at Broadway’s New World Stages, as a love letter to two 20th century music giants, Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Kar
NO MAN'S LAND reunites composer/conductor WHITNEY GEORGE and stage director ATTILIO RIGOTTI for the first time since 2022 at Curiosity Cabinet.
As a non-recovering musical theater addict, Aisle Say has always stood in wonderment as to how iconic composers can write lyrics as well: cue Sondheim, Berlin and Porter.
This summer's festival will feature two different concert series at beautiful Saratoga venues, with delicious food and drinks.
Union Avenue Opera is preparing for its 2025 Festival Season, bringing a mix of beloved musical theater, historical drama, and grand opera to St.
Starring Klára Kolonits, Gabriella Balga, and Juraj Hollý in the leading roles, conducted by Martin Rajna and directed by Máté Szabó, a full-scale stage production of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda is being presented for the first time in Hungary.
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced the opening of the 14th annual Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
Even without an over-the-top production—and the Met has had a couple of those—Richard Strauss’s SALOME has been outraging audiences for more than 120 years.
This May, Canadian artists are rallying the community to support people with chronic and post-infectious illnesses.
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), in partnership with Odyssey Opera, will present the New England premiere of Frederick Douglass at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall on Friday, June 20, 2025, at 7:30 p.
The Riverside Opera Company Orchestra, which has performed at both Carnegie Hall and the Guggenheim Museum, hosts May Musical Madness featuring four celebrated singers.
When we last saw Brunnhilde in Atlanta, in the second segment of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, DIE WALKURE, she’d been punished by the gods for saving Sieglinde, but rescued by her father, Wotan.
Opera Saratoga will present La Vie parisienne: composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, and a new commissioned book by Tim Drucker.
Wagner College Opera will be presenting the beloved masterpiece The Magic Flute beginning this May.
The Oratorio Society of New York (OSNY) under Maestro Kent Tritle brings the world premiere performance of ALL SHALL RISE, by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, to Carnegie Hall on May 5.
