The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
The Canadian Opera Company has released a first look trailer for its upcoming double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung, directed by acclaimed Canadian stage director Robert Lepage.
Riverside Opera Company will present ROC BLACK VOICES on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 4:00 p.
Independent Opera Company will present Carl Orff's opera DIE KLUGE, based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, with performances in North Hollywood this March.
Sarasota Opera will open Susannah on Saturday, March 14 — the fourth and final production in its 2026 Winter Festival.
Though only a handful of Emily Dickinson’s hundreds of poems were published during her lifetime (more than 1700 others were found posthumously), she is best known as a risk-taking writer whose work straddled the line between the straightforward and the more abstract.
Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for the remainder of the run, replacing Sonya Yoncheva.
In the traditionally Eurocentric world of opera, an Eastern face on stage can still prompt a double take.
This is the final chance to submi nominations for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.
The winners of the prestigious 2026 George London Awards have been announced, with the competition available for viewing on YouTube.
Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra, will present LE DONNE MUSICALI: ITALIAN WOMEN’S MUSIC FROM THE BAROQUE February 27 through March 1 at venues throughout the Greater Philadelphia area.
Join the Vergennes Opera House for its last OFF Stage event of the season featuring Josh Celevenstine at Rockers Pizzeria on March 28.
Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances.
San Diego Opera will stage Bizet's CARMEN with Melody Wilson, Guadalupe Paz, Thomas Kinch, and Jonny Kaufmann in lead roles.
Opera Orlando will host its 2026 OPERAZZI BASH at the Dr.
The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers will hold its 54th event in 2026, with a public final round at New York's Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.
Washington National Opera General Director Timothy O'Leary discusses the company's transition, community support, rebuilding operations, and future plans, including upcoming productions of TREEMONISHA, THE CRUCIBLE, and WEST SIDE STORY.
Sarasota Opera has announced two exciting summer training opportunities for young singers: Sarasota Youth Opera Summer Camp and the Sarasota Opera Vocal Academy, a specialized intensive for pre-college vocalists.
The Canadian Opera Company has unveiled its 2026/2027 season, featuring a Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Can
The Canadian Opera Company has announced that David C.
Sarasota Opera will continue its proud tradition of presenting operas by Giuseppe Verdi with Il trovatore.
TIED will run March 6–22 at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company in New York City.
Wilmington Concert Opera will present the world premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's first opera Loksi' Shaali' the first opera in a Native American language, at the 2026 Opera America Conference in Wilmington, DE.
Check out production photos for Opera San José's operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, running February 15 through March 1 at the California Theatre.
Check out video of baritone Luke Sutliff delivering a spirited performance of “Largo al factotum” from Gioachino Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, accompanied by the COC Orchestra under the baton of Daniela Candillari.
