The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
Madison Opera has partnered with Wisconsin Public Radio to air recorded broadcasts of its entire 2025/26 season, including LA BOHÈME, the world premiere of EVERLASTING FAINT, and COSÌ FAN TUTTE.
BroadwayWorld chats with Shawna Lucey, Opera San Jose's General Director & CEO, about being one of a cohort of women in leadership roles in the Bay Area classical music scene.
Opera Modesto announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Portman's THE LITTLE PRINCE, and Verdi's LA TRAVIATA, alongside education initiatives and community programs at the Gallo Center for the Arts.
“Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s SEMELE) or Broadway’s Tevye and Golde (FIDDLER ON THE ROOF) and they repeat in different cultures and traditions,” General Manager and Artistic Director of the
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program will kick off its 2026 season with L’Anima Napoletana, a Neapolitan-inspired vocal/piano recital celebrating Southern Italy.
Lyric Opera of Chicago has received a historic $20 million gift from The Negaunee Foundation, the philanthropic organization of Richard W.
SNF Nostos 2026, from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), will collaborate once again with the Greek National Opera (GNO) to present three major premieres at multiple venues within the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.
Portland Opera announced its upcoming 2026/27 season, themed 'Driven by Vision,' with full programming details available from the company.
Gabriela Lena Frank's EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO, starring Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez, will close the Met's Live in HD season in over 700 theatres nationwide via Fathom Entertainment, with encore screenings to follow.
The Atlanta Opera and Georgia Tech Arts will present the world premiere of WATER MEMORY (Jala Smriti), a one-act chamber opera exploring dementia, family, and AI's role in preserving human dignity, created entirely without AI assistance.
The Atlanta Opera will close its season with Tomer Zvulun's new production of Wagner's TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, completing the company's first Ring cycle and the first new American Ring staging since the pandemic.
Independent Opera Company will present a fully staged production of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at La Cañada Congregational Church in La Cañada Flintridge, CA, featuring local singers in costume with piano accompaniment.
Baritone Benjamin Sokol, an artist in development with Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs, received the Carlisle Floyd Centennial Prize — the organization's first time awarding the honor.
The Music Institute of Chicago and Lyric Opera of Chicago are launching a new partnership in the 2026/27 season.
I caught up with Heartbeat Opera’s reinvention of Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera, VANESSA, to Giancarlo Menotti’s libretto, a few days after its debut at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York, after premiering last summer at the Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival.
Opera North announced the cast for THE SOUND OF MUSIC, with Katie Bird as Maria and Edward Bennett as Captain von Trapp, backed by the 40-piece Orchestra of Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre.
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program, one of the world’s most prestigious opera training programs, will close its 2026 Summer Festival with the annual Merola Grand Finale.
Opera San José will present live music under the summer sky at Opera in the Rose Garden, a free outdoor concert featuring the Opera San José Orchestra under the direction of OSJ Music Director and conductor Joseph Marcheso.
2026 marks the first time that Glyndbourne has staged Puccini's Tosca, a devastating opera of love and betrayal.
The story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—two great Mexican artists who also happened to be in a tempestuous marriage—seems tailor-made for the opera stage.
Washington National Opera has unveiled its 2026-2027 season—its first full season as an independent company, following its departure from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in January 2026
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s celebrated Wine Auction made a return.
The Dallas Opera appointed David Lomelí as its next Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO, succeeding Ian Derrer.
Maryland Opera will present its free Summer Opera Camp, now in its 17th year, for high school and college-age students up to 21.
The Royal Opera will present a new staging of I PURITANI, directed by Olivier Award winner Richard Jones, with soprano Lisette Oropesa as Elvira and conductor Riccardo Frizza making his Royal Opera debut.
