The latest opera news, reviews, and production coverage from the Metropolitan Opera and companies around the world.
Grammy-nominated performer and composer Nathalie Joachim, a Haitian American artist will serve as Opera Philadelphia's Composer in Residence for the upcoming 2025-2026 Season.
See first look photos of the Santa Fe Opera's new production of Verdi's Rigoletto directed by Julien Chavaz and starring Michael Chioldi, Elena Villalón, Duke Kim and Stephano Park.
Opera San José has revealed the 2025–26 Artists-in-Residence—a group of distinguished opera professionals who will perform in the company’s four mainstage productions.
San Francisco Opera’s 2025–26 season, the tenth under the leadership of Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock, kicks off in September.
In a year that honours 30 years since Opera Holland Park was established, the 2026 Season will open with a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s La fanciulla del West.
Portland Opera has announced that single tickets are now on sale for its 2025/26 season, Love Through Adversity.
Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the sheer joy of opera as the 2025 Merola Opera Program artists present an unforgettable evening of vocal fireworks and lush melodies.
Roulette will present a production of Robert Ashley's acclaimed experimental opera Celestial Excursions in September.
OPERA America has announced the selection of four outstanding women administrators for the 2025–2026 Mentorship Program for Women Administrators.
Polyphemus Productions will present the World Premiere of The Royal Pyrate, a new musical with Book by Chas LiBretto and Music and Lyrics by Jason Landon Marcus at the historic Waterfront Barge Museum.
Welsh National Opera has revealed its WNO Orchestra concert programme which gets underway during the Autumn 2025 Season.
OPERA America has revealed the five recipients of the 2025 Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program.
Forget Arcadian landscapes and Corinthian columns.
San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, represented by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 6 have reached agreement on a new two-year contract.
Opera in the Heights has announced its 2025–2026 season.
Opera in the Heights (Oh!) has announced the appointment of Kathryn Frady as the company’s Interim General Director, effective immediately.
San Francisco Opera has announced a casting update for the opening production of its 2025–26 season.
You could be forgiven for thinking that there isn’t much more to be said about Le nozze di Figaro, the most performed opera in Glyndebourne’s history.
XThe Opera Festival of Chicago final production in its fifth season is Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, directed by Sasha Gerritson, conducted by Uff.
San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) continue their collaborative workshop series The Opera in You, offering free writing and storytelling workshops for the public from July through October 2025.
John Conklin, a celebrated scenic designer whose visionary work transformed opera and theatre stages around the world, has died at the age of 88.
The Metropolitan Opera’s annual Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza.
Opera Lafayette has announced its 31st season, Drama Queen, a daring and celebratory lineup that places women’s voices and stories at the center of the stage.
Cincinnati Opera has announced a new student access initiative designed to welcome and inspire the next generation of opera lovers.
A thoughtfully selected double bill making up the operetta segment of Opera Holland Park’s summer season shows the genre at its technical best, but also illuminates its troubling shortcomings.
