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Austin Opera's 2025-2026 Season will mark several major milestones, as the company celebrates its 40th birthday as well as the 10th anniversary of Annie Burridge's tenure as General Director & CEO.
Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer brings a new production of Verdi’s grand masterpiece Aida to the Met next month.
This Spring, The Royal Opera will present the first revival of Damiano Michieletto's production of Carmen.
Erwin Schrott has withdrawn from the performances of Faust on 2, 6 and 10 June for personal reasons.
The chorus of the Welsh National Opera have voted unanimously to take further action short of strike on Thursday 27 February and Saturday 1 March, affecting shows on these dates.
Decca Classics has announced Der fliegende Holländer, the first full-length opera recording on the label from Lise Davidsen.
For two days in March, Opera Saratoga will hold local auditions for the 2025 Summer Festival Season and beyond, in order to create a local roster of affiliated singers, actors and pianists.
OPERA America has revealed the eight recipients of the 2025 Discovery Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program.
The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals.
Boston Lyric Opera will present an 80th anniversary production of “RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S ‘CAROUSEL,'” directed by BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart, conducted by BLO Music Director David Angus, and running April 4-13, 2025 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.
Welsh National Opera has announced its 2025/2026 Season, which will also see the Company celebrate its 80th anniversary.
This March, Utopia Opera will present the timeless rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar with a 30-piece orchestra from March 14th through 23rd at the Ida K.
Chickasaw American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's new opera Loksi' Shaali' (Shell Shaker), conducted by Tianhui Ng will have its East Coast Premiere at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA.
Sarasota Opera will open Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville on Saturday, Feb.
And so to the final new production of English National Opera’s season; Mary, Queen of Scots, directed by Stewart Laing and conducted by Joana Carneiro.
While opera-lovers wait eagerly for soprano Julia Bullock’s appearance in the latest John Adams lyric drama, ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at the Met in May, Bullock continues to tantalize us with some other parts of her repertoire, from the Baroque (her recent program with the Orchestra of the Age of Enli
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Thea Musgrave’s rarely performed Mary, Queen of Scots makes its London and English National Opera (ENO) premiere in February 2025.
OPERA America has revealed the three recipients of the first Opera RESPECTS Training Awards.
The people at Heartbeat Opera--that dazzling reinvention-machine for taking works that you think you might have heard one time too often and making them compelling--must have had a crystal ball when they programmed Strauss’s SALOME long before the current, decadent regime took control in US politi
There's much to celebrate next season at Sarasota Opera.
In an unprecedented collaboration, the Columbus Symphony, BalletMet, Opera Columbus, and the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) have all joined forces to present West Side Story, the classic forbidden love story and rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks in a mesmerizing fusion of
Palm Beach Opera is inviting audiences to experience the timeless passion and heartbreak of Verdi's La traviata at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Mark-Anthony Turnage has a provocative habit of turning unconventional narratives into opera
LA Opera has announced details for the company's 40th anniversary season, which will launch on September 20, 2025.
