The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
San Francisco Opera has released a video featuring Scene Shop Foreperson John Del Bono, who reflects on his nearly 30-year career with the company and how donor support makes grand opera possible on the West Coast.
San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' ELEKTRA, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, in Keith Warner's contemporary museum staging featuring a cast including Elena Pankratova and Elza van den Heever.
First-look production photos have been released for English National Opera’s UK premiere of ANGEL’S BONE by Du Yun.
OperaOn75 announced Keith Chambers as conductor for its inaugural full-scale production of Puccini's LA BOHÈME at the Church Street Auditorium in McKinney, Texas.
Chicago Opera Theater has revealed its 2026-2027 Season, featuring two Chicago premieres with expanded, including The Importance of Being Earnest, plus investments in new work and arts education.
In a bold and unexpected fusion of disciplines, multidisciplinary artist Radmila Lolly continues to redefine performance with her latest concept, DIVA x Basketball.
Peter Grimes hinges on balancing the duality between its chorus and Grimes as an individual.
Utah Opera closes its 2025-26 season with Verdi's LA TRAVIATA at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, featuring soprano Lydia Katarina alongside tenor Isaac Hurtado and baritone Weston Hurt.
Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho wasn’t the first Violetta of this season’s LA TRAVIATA by Verdi at the Met.
Opera Arlington will present Bizet's CARMEN reimagined in 1920s Spain, with Escamillo recast as a star footballer, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Arlington, Texas.
San Francisco Opera will present Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE with two international casts led by conductor Benjamin Manis, featuring baritones Joshua Hopkins and Justin Austin sharing the title role.
Opera Orlando announced the full cast for A DECADE OF DIVAS, a one-night-only concert at Steinmetz Hall featuring sopranos, tenors, and a mezzo-soprano from the company's past nine seasons alongside the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Royal Ballet and Opera will unveil new stage curtains at a landmark Gala performance featuring dancers, operatic soloists, and a rediscovered Kenneth MacMillan pas de deux believed lost since 1984.
OPERA America announced 20 administrators from the U.
The Atlanta Opera will present a new Tomer Zvulun production of GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, completing the first full Ring cycle staged in the Southeast, featuring Lise Lindstrom and Stefan Vinke.
The production, with its flamboyantly portrayed characters and colorful background, fulfilled the most crowd-pleasing elements of the work
Ana Inés Jabares-Pita's set feels familiar and clearly defines time and place: The Departure remains in the 1960s; Making Arrangements moves into the 1970s, where a woman could choose to live independently; Four Sisters is in the materialistic 1980s, where 'greed is good'.
Tapestry Opera and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced a masterclass for emerging women and non-binary conductors, hosted at Roy Thomson Hall with mentor Maestro Gustavo Gimeno and full orchestral forces.
San Francisco's Merola Opera Program will present Richard Strauss's serio-comic ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, conducted by Ann-Katrin Stöcker and directed by Omer Ben Seadia, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
The Music Center will present a summer dance season in Downtown L.
Nickel City Opera will present A CANDLE OPERA CONCERT at Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center, featuring a 15-piece orchestra, international soloists, and over a thousand flickering candles.
In case we had to be reminded—after the Met’s recent Laffont Competition lineup, where three Juilliard singers were among the finalists—the Juilliard School is among the top sources of the next generation of opera singers (among many other categories, of course).
North Carolina Opera revealed its 2026–2027 season, featuring Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Turandot, and the company premiere of Gluck's Orfeo & Euridice in concert at the Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh.
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.
