Opera Newsroom
The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
Houston Grand Opera To Open Winter Season With SILENT NIGHT
Houston Grand Opera will launch its winter repertoire on January 23, 2026, with the Houston premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s SILENT NIGHT.
Teatro Grattacielo Unveils 2026–2027 Season Featuring World Premieres And New Productions
Teatro Grattacielo has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring two world premieres and new productions at La MaMa and The Flea.
Photos: CARMINA BURANA At Lyric Opera Of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago has released new photos from the November 14 performance of Carmina Burana.
ECHOES BETWEEN THE LINES to be Presented at Wagner College Opera
Wagner College Opera will present ECHOES BETWEEN THE LINES, featuring the music of Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini, Berlioz, Sondheim, Lehár and Bernstein.
OPERA America Awards $165,000 In Next Stage Grants
OPERA America has given grants totaling $165,000 to seven opera companies through its Next Stage Grants program.
Photos: San Francisco Opera’s THE MONKEY KING
Check out production photos from the world premiere of San Francisco Opera's The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, running November 14-30 at the War Memorial Opera House.
Photos: MADAMA BUTTERFLY At Opera San José
Opera San José will continue its 42nd season with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, running November 16–30, 2025 at the California Theatre.
CHRISTMAS NIGHT OPERA GALA Set For Carnegie Hall In December
Carnegie Hall will host the Christmas Night Opera Gala on December 27, 2025, featuring a roster of internationally acclaimed singers in performance with the American Symphony Orchestra.
Photos: Lincoln Center Fall Gala Honored Bayo Ogunlesi, Raising Over $6.7 Million
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts held its Fall Gala on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at David Geffen Hall, where it honored Bayo Ogunlesi, co-founder of Global Infrastructure Partners and Treasurer and Vice Chair of Lincoln Center’s Board.
Kentucky Opera Names Ben Robinson As General Director And CEO
Kentucky Opera has appointed Ben Robinson, an accomplished singer, stage director, and arts executive, as its new General Director and CEO following a national search.
Review: Strauss’s ARABELLA Has the Music and the Singers—and Old Vienna—at the Met
For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther Schneider Siemssen, dating back to 1983, will be a relief.
San Francisco Opera To Present Wagner’s THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG In June And July 2028
San Francisco Opera has announced plans to present Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in June and July 2028, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and staged by Francesca Zambello.
Houston Grand Opera to Perform Free Holiday Concert At Discovery Green
Houston Grand Opera is inviting the community to gather at Discovery Green for Carols on the Green, the company's annual holiday concert and sing-along combining beloved carols with festive Spanish-language favorites.
Review: THE SORCERER at Winter Opera
Gina Galati’s delightful Winter Opera company has opened its season with a revival of a rarely seen Gilbert and Sullivan show—The Sorcerer.
Toronto City Opera to Launch Its 2025 Season With Leoncavallo's PAGLIACCI
Toronto City Opera will launch its 2025 season with Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, a searing tale of love, jealousy, and betrayal.
Kristin Sampson and Jeremy Brauner to Star in Light Opera Of New Jersey 2025 Holiday Pops Concert
Light Opera of New Jersey has revealed Kristin Sampson and Jeremy Brauner as the principal artists who will headline its Holiday Pops Concert at the Ridge Performing Arts Center in Basking Ridge, NJ.
Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S PAGLIACCI at San Diego Civic Theater
San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown.
Review: DEAD MAN WALKING, London Coliseum
A confession.
Chicago Opera Theater to Present the Chicago Premiere of Antonio Salieri’s FALSTAFF, OSSIA LE TRE BURLE
Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of Antonio Salieri’s Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle December 3–7, 2025, at the Studebaker Theater.
Review: Who Was That MASQUE-d Man? Davone Tines, with Sonnambula Ensemble at the Frick
Some of the audience at the chamber concert at the Frick Collection Museum—that jewel-box museum of art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century on New York’s Upper East Side—had fought its way there through the runners of the NYC Marathon.
Opera Uncorked Brings Winners Of ROC OPERA Auditions To The Stage November 8
The Riverside Opera Company will celebrate its 27th season with Opera Uncorked on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at St.
Photos: English National Opera's New Production of DEAD MAN WALKING at the London Coliseum
English National Opera (ENO) will present a new production of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking at the London Coliseum, opening November 1, 2025.
OPERA America Reveals New President/CEO
On behalf of the Board of Directors of OPERA America, Board Chair Lee Anne Myslewski has announced the appointment of Michael J.
Review: THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, Glyndebourne
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and his partner Rachael Hewer eschewed making banana bread during the Covid lockdown and decided to write an opera.
