The latest news, features, and updates from BroadwayWorld's Opera coverage.
Babatunde Akinboboye, a baritone singer will bring fresh new perspective to opera with “Hip Hopera,” a genre-defying musical style fusing the classical opera with the rhythmic intensity and attitude of hip-hop, at the Sierra Madre Playhouse.
The Dallas Opera will offer single tickets to its upcoming season, featuring four mainstage productions including Lohengrin, plus family operas and concerts, starting at $27.
Richard Strauss's opera within an opera, Ariadne aux Naxos, is a curious beast: a hybrid of spoken word and singing, a mix of musical influences and themes which ask whether high art can ever mix with popular entertainment.
To “IL” or not to “IL”—that is the question.
Houston Grand Opera will release the first-ever recording of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's opera Breaking the Waves, captured during its 2025 Houston premiere.
The Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL, cancelled the performance of Mozart’s Abduction From The Seraglio on July 16 because of the increasingly hazardous air quality due to the wildfires in Canada.
Long Beach Opera Education will present ACQUAPROFONDA, a free family opera about ocean conservation, at the Aquarium of the Pacific's Honda Pacific Visions Theater, with activity sessions before and after each performance.
While the US celebrates its 250th anniversary (with not much to cheer about), those bel canto specialists under Will Crutchfield at Teatro Nuovo are reveling in the 200th year since Italian opera (or at least opera in Italian) came to this country.
The Seoul Arts Center will present its 2026 production of Puccini’s opera “Turandot” in July at the Opera Theater in Seoul, South Korea.
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 Colorado and the American Guild of Musical Artists announced their first collective bargaining agreement, a three-year contract recognizing the company's chorus and AGMA artists as professionals, with added protections for its Artists in Residence program.
The Greek National Opera will make its first-ever U.
As Festival Napa Valley celebrates its 20th Anniversary Summer Season, running July 4–19, the opening weekend perfectly illustrated why the festival has become one of the country's most sought-after cultural destinations
Boston Summer Opera received a Community Fund for Wellesley grant to stage Rossini's The Barber of Seville, marking its first expansion into Wellesley, with a no-audition community chorus open to adult singers.
Opera Carolina has named Maestro Stefano Vignati as General Director, leading the company into its 77th season with productions including Mozart's Requiem, Menotti's The Medium starring Denyce Graves, and Verdi's La Traviata.
Opera Orlando announced single tickets are now on sale for its new production of MADAME BUTTERFLY, coming to Steinmetz Hall.
Great Lakes Operetta's production of Jacques Offenbach's ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD enters its closing weekend at Bramble Arts Loft in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood, featuring 14 singers in a new English translation.
OPERA America announced the recipients of its 2026 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards, honoring outstanding trustees from North American opera companies for leadership and service.
The Zurich Opera House will present Giacomo Puccini's La rondine, in a new production by Christof Loy.
The Royal Opera will open its upcoming season with Kasper Holten's production of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI, featuring Gordon Bintner, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, and Aigul Akhmetshina, alongside three House debuts.
State Opera South Australia will present a world premiere production of Humperdinck's HANSEL & GRETEL at Her Majesty's Theatre Adelaide, featuring countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim in his Australian debut.
This season, Des Moines Metro Opera is taking my favorite type of risk and doing an Opera that audiences might not be familiar with in their final, and most ambitious opera of the season, Karol Szymanowski's 'King Roger.
All's fair in love and war — at least until the hero storms in on a tank.
San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program is continuing its 2026 season with La Tragédie de Carmen.
Opera Orlando will kick off its upcoming education season with a new cohort of SINGS!: Summer Institute for the Next Generation of Singers, a week-long training intensive concluding in a public showcase recital at Timucua Arts Foundation.
