The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
The Royal Opera House released footage of its 2015 Katie Mitchell production of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, featuring Diana Damrau in the title role alongside Charles Castronovo and Ludovic Tézier in Donizetti's tragic opera.
A new version of Handel's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare is always an exciting prospect.
Mae West famously asked, 'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?' Well, at the beginning of the relationship, he will no doubt be very happy to see you.
Cincinnati Opera will present Richard Strauss's SALOME to open its 2026 Summer Festival at Music Hall, with soprano Kathryn Lewek making her title role debut alongside a cast of Metropolitan Opera regulars.
A music-drama about Tchaikovsky's life and homosexuality will make its UK premiere at Opera Holland Park, featuring Royal Ballet dancer Téo Dubreuil, pianist Jayson Gillham, and RPS-nominated playwright Tama Matheson.
Courtney Bryan's first stage work, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, a new opera based on Tennessee Williams's play, will have its world premiere at the Fisher Center at Bard, directed by Tony-nominated Daniel Fish.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2026 Summer HD Festival returns to Lincoln Center Plaza in September.
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.
