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Opera Philadelphia announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring five new productions including works by Mozart, Verdi, and the Gershwins, plus world and Philadelphia premieres of new operas.
Composer Joseph Phibbs and historian Dominic Sandbrook have written MRS T, the first opera about Margaret Thatcher's time in office, with mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer in the title role at Kings Place, London.
English National Opera has announced its 2026/27 Season across London and Greater Manchester, featuring nine operas, with six new productions, four operas by contemporary female composers and opportunities for the next generation of opera makers.
Victorian Opera will present THE MAGIC PUDDING: THE OPERA, composed by Calvin Bowman and written by Anna Goldsworthy, across three Melbourne venues with a live chamber orchestra and cast including students from Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
Sejong Soloists will present its Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, featuring Metropolitan Opera artists Lawrence Brownlee, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Hera Hyesang Park, and violinist Chee-Yun.
Undead Arts, in collaboration with New Jersey Symphony, will present a reimagined production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute on May 2 & 3, 2026, at 3 pm, at The Harborside Atrium.
There was a time early in this century when conductor Lorin Maazel led Massenet’s opera THAIS, surprising audiences by picking up a violin during Act II to play the work’s famous “Meditation” himself—usually the realm of the concertmaster.
Opera Orlando announced its 2026-27 season of six productions across three venues, including its first-ever Wagner production and a centennial celebration of an American classic at Dr.
Opera Orlando has released first look footage of THE MERRY WIDOW, Franz Lehár's effervescent operetta playing two performances only at Steinmetz Hall at Dr.
English National Opera (ENO) will present Du Yun’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel’s Bone at the London Coliseum in October, following its UK premiere in Greater Manchester in May.
Atchley Opera announced a double bill featuring All Of Us and Unbroken, two operatic works set to be performed in the Fort Worth area.
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra will present a free Music That Tells a Story vocal workshop at Westrick Music Academy in Princeton Junction, featuring Princeton University voice professor Dr.
The Dallas Opera (TDO) will release select operas from past seasons for free, on-demand viewing via its YouTube channel.
The Merola Opera Program will present LA TRAGÉDIE DE CARMEN as part of its 2026 season in San Francisco.
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.
