The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
The Metropolitan Opera's high-profile arrangement with the Saudi Arabian government - a deal that would have delivered up to $200 million to the struggling company over eight years - has collapsed.
Opera San José has released first look footage of LA TRAVIATA, Verdi's beloved tragic love story now playing through May 3, 2026 at the California Theatre in downtown San Jose.
The Bronx Opera will present Richard Strauss' ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, performed mostly in English, at the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College, combining commedia dell'arte with opera seria.
Des Moines Metro Opera has announced casting for its 2026 Festival Season featuring TOSCA, OF MICE AND MEN, and KING ROGER.
AMON! The Ultimate Texan will make its Dallas debut at the Winspear Opera House.
What can you do with a 90-year-old piece about a man madly in love, slowly slipping into a dream he has no desire to wake up from? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Opera Orlando is offering $15 student and faculty rush tickets for THE MERRY WIDOW, available up to two hours before each performance with valid ID at Steinmetz Hall.
The Dallas Opera announced Claire Lewis as its Martha R.
The Crossing will conclude its season with The Month of Moderns, a series of concerts in Philadelphia.
San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program will kick off its 2026 season with L’Anima Napoletana, a Neapolitan-inspired vocal/piano recital celebrating the lyrical richness and emotional depth of Southern Italy.
Lyric Opera of Chicago has completed its sold-out world premiere run of safronia, the landmark new opera by Chicago’s inaugural Poet Laureate avery r.
In the Met’s much-anticipated revival of Tchaikovsky’s EUGENE ONEGIN, almost anything that could go wrong, in fact, did, at Monday night’s premiere.
Opera Orlando has released rehearsal footage of THE MERRY WIDOW, Franz Lehár's effervescent operetta now playing two performances only at Steinmetz Hall at Dr.
Edmonton Opera released a new video featuring chorus members performing a reimagined version of 'Maybe This Time' with lyrics dedicated to the Edmonton Oilers, following a previous video that garnered over 75,000 views.
Mozart's COSÌ FAN TUTTE gets a social media-themed reimagining at the Hungarian State Opera's Eiffel Art Studios, directed by Kriszta Székely, with the production also streaming on OperaVision for six months.
Opera Philadelphia will present the Philadelphia premiere of THE BLACK CLOWN, a music theater work set to Langston Hughes' poetry, with bass-baritone Davóne Tines in the title role at the Miller Theater.
Chicago Opera Theater will close its season with the concert world premiere of TRUSTED, a new opera composed by Aaron Israel Levin with a libretto by Marella Martin Koch, at the Studebaker Theater at the Fine Arts Building.
Some evenings remind you why opera exists.
Wagner College Opera will present Cinderella, weaving together scenes from operatic and musical theatre interpretations, including works by Massenet, Rossini, Viardot, and Rodgers & Hammerstein, performed on Wagner College's Main Stage.
Canadian Opera Company has released rehearsal footage of BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE/ERWARTUNG, a pair of one-act psychological thrillers now playing through May 16, 2026 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
Opera San José will present La Traviata to close its 2025–26 season.
Grammy-nominated opera producer Beth Morrison and choreographer Moses Pendleton will receive honorary doctorates from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, recognized for their decades of artistic innovation in opera and dance.
Composer Rene Orth’s award-winning opera 10 Days in a Madhouse will receive its Canadian premiere at the Luminato Festival, co-presented by Tapestry Opera and the Canadian Opera Company.
San Francisco Opera has released first look footage of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Gioachino Rossini's beloved comedic masterpiece, running May 28 through June 21, 2026 at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco.
English National Opera announced Helen Shute, current CEO of Rambert, as its new Chief Executive Officer.
