The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
Soprano Toni Marie Palmertree, fresh from the Metropolitan Opera stage, will perform the title role in the Princeton Festival's new production of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Morven Museum & Garden, with a 7-year-old local student making his Festival debut.
Los Angeles Ballet will make its Hollywood Bowl debut alongside the LA Phil, featuring a new ballet choreographed by Artistic Director Melissa Barak set to Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari, plus Balanchine's WHO CARES?, conducted by Grammy-winner Carlos Miguel Prieto.
Speight Jenkins, who led Seattle Opera for 31 years and transformed it into one of the most respected opera companies in the US, has died at 89, the company announced.
Gulfshore Opera announced the appointment of Julie Maykowski as its first-ever Chief Development Officer, marking a new milestone in the Naples-based opera company's organizational growth.
Berkshire Opera Festival will present Grétry's rarely staged ZÉMIRE ET AZOR at PS21 in Chatham, NY, marking the launch of the company's new eight-week paid Resident Artist Program for emerging opera singers.
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program will continue its 2026 season with La Tragédie de Carmen, a condensed adaptation of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, created by theatre director Peter Brook.
Why bother doing another Marriage of Figaro? There are four more happening in 2026, from traditional powerhouse companies Royal Ballet and Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North and Scottish Opera.
In dieser Kombination zeigt sich das Profil der Griechischen Nationaloper (GNO).
Opera Picciona has recorded three cut songs from Gilbert and Sullivan's IOLANTHE after researcher Marc Shepherd found the manuscript scores misfiled at the British Library, where they had been held since the D'Oyly Carte archive was acquired in 2015.
There’s a certain neat irony at the heart of this.
Great Lakes Operetta announced the cast and creative team for its first fully staged production, ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, to be performed at the Bramble Arts Loft in Chicago with two alternating casts.
Opera Saratoga has announced additional casting for its summer festival productions of MY FAIR LADY and THE ELIXIR OF LOVE.
Maryland Opera announced a call for scores for its New Voices in Opera initiative, seeking works by Latiné/Hispanic composers and librettists for a semi- or fully-staged production in Baltimore.
The Dallas Opera's Kids Opera Boot Camp still has spots available for its free summer sessions, offering K–6 students a half-day workshop in music, stage movement, and visual arts, culminating in a performance of THE BREMEN TOWN MUSICIANS.
What did our critic think of HEATHERS THE MUSICAL at Wellington Opera House?
The Canadian Opera Company will host a one-night-only concert at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, featuring the COC Orchestra, COC Chorus, and an all-Canadian lineup of soloists performing Beethoven's Symphony No.
The Odesa Philharmonic, housed in the historic Old Exchange building, sustained significant damage during a Russian missile attack on the center of Odesa on Friday, January 31.
Opera Australia will present Graeme Murphy's production of THE MERRY WIDOW at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, featuring Emma Pearson making her role debut alongside Julie Lea Goodwin, Alexander Lewis, and Alexandra Flood.
Toronto City Opera will present a fully staged production of Offenbach's ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD at Trinity-St.
KL City Opera has announced a new production of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow,” set to run in July at The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre’s Pentas 1 venue in Malaysia.
The Royal Swedish Opera will revive the ballet “Gustavia” in June at the historic Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
The separation of the Washington National Opera from the overrun-and-soon-to-close Kennedy Center has meant next season’s eight planned productions, including five full length operas, will occur on five different stages in the D.
The Crossing, the four-time Grammy-winning choir conducted by Donald Nally, will present THE MONTH OF MODERNS, a series of Philadelphia concerts featuring world premieres and works marking 250 years of American Independence.
Il Turco In Italia may not be Rossini's most famous work, but if there is any justice, this wonderful revival of Mariame Clément's 2021 Festival production will bring this opera to much wider attention.
I’d say that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is not a maxim that has ever been used for Puccini’s Chinese-inspired fairytale, TURANDOT, which returned for another go-around at the Met the other day with two alternating casts.
