The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
Get a first look at Hamburg State Opera's world premiere of Monster's Paradise, a new opera by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth with a German-language libretto by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek.
Christopher Koelsch, the Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco President and CEO of LA Opera, has announced details for the company's 2026/27 season, which will launch on October 17, 2026.
San Francisco Opera will present a dynamic 2026-27 season, featuring a mix of classic operas and new productions.
The full lineup of titles and artists has been revealed for Seattle Opera's 2026/27 season.
Opera Colorado will present its 2026–27 Season featuring a mix of fully staged operas, concerts, touring productions, and community-focused programming in Denver and throughout the region.
Sarasota Opera will present THE MERRY WIDOW by Franz Lehár as part of its 2026 Winter Festival.
Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, on stage in a production that dares to ask: what if everything we think we know about this classic opera is only half the story?
Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of DER SILBERSEE: EIN WINTERMÄRCHEN (THE SILVER LAKE – A WINTER’S FAIRY TALE) by Kurt Weill, with text by Georg Kaiser, from March 4 through March 8 at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago.
If Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov were a dinner party, Richard Jones’s Russian-language revival at the Royal Opera House would be the dinner date where you arrive bright and curious and leave questioning your life choices, nursing a neat whisky in a corner.
Teatro Lirico D'Europa will present the opera CARMEN at the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts this Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 3pm.
Starting with the 2026–2027 season, Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic will partner with Carnegie Hall on a five-year project that will annually bring exciting presentations of opera in concert to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.
BroadwayWorld is now accepting nominations for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.
Australia's internationally acclaimed vocal group, The TEN Tenors, will return to the Charles W.
Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City has received a grant from The Missouri Humanities Council to support their new touring program, LANGSTON HUGHES: A LYRICAL LIFE.
The audience at New York’s 92nd Street Y the other night was certainly happy to be at a recital, “From Ordinary Things,” by the trio of soprano Julia Bullock, with her colleagues Seth Parler Wood on cello and pianist Conor Hanick.
Opera Philadelphia has confirmed the extension of contracts for General Director Anthony Roth Costanzo and Music Director Corrado Rovaris until May 2029.
Washington National Opera celebrates its 70th anniversary year and new future as an independent organization with an important new community initiative, Save Seventy Seats.
A revival of Cal McCrystal’s 2021 production, HMS Pinafore at the London Coliseum charms with wit, a stunning cast, and gorgeous Victorian designs.
Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2025/26 Season will continue with Richard Strauss’s electrifying Salome.
Opera San José will close its 2025-26 season devoted to exploring “What is love?” with a definitive Italian operatic story of all-encompassing passion and profound loss.
Calgary Opera will present its 2026/27 season, showcasing a blend of classic operas and contemporary pieces.
Acclaimed soprano Nola Richardson will return to Houston for a special Valentine's Day performance with Ars Lyrica, featuring a program of French Baroque music.
The Verdi Messa da Requiem—better known to English speakers as the Verdi Requiem—featuring the Cleveland Orchestra and its Chorus, with a quartet of soloists, breezed into Carnegie Hall the other night and promptly knocked many concert-goers out of their seats.
The Dallas Opera has been awarded a significant $25 million challenge grant by the O'Donnell Foundation to support its future endeavors and artistic projects.
