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As a complement to Opera Orlando's 2020-21 'On the Mainstage' series that includes Die Fledermaus: The Revenge of the Bat, Hansel & Gretel, and Carmen, the Opera announces its 'On the Town' series, featuring original productions throughout the City Beautiful.

The Music Center at Strathmore has entered a labor dispute after The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has unfair labor practices when the former laid off all part-time ticket sellers and half of their full-time sellers.

Conductor Oliver Zeffman has commissioned the very first opera for a socially distanced world, which is now available to watch exclusively on Apple Music.

This year the BroadwayWorld Opera Awards are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! Eligibility is for productions which opened between 2011 and September 30th, 2020.

For DESERT IN, a new series commissioned for the soon-to-launch streaming service operabox.

Composer and pianist Omar Khairat will perform at the Cairo Opera House on Tuesday, October 20 at 8:30 pm.

Today, the Dutch National Opera announced that, despite the coronavirus measures in place, Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro will still be performed live at Dutch National Opera & Ballet.

The Aspen Music Festival and School has announced the appointment of Miah Im as AMFS artist-faculty member for its new Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program, joining co-artistic directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers.

In response to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera's HD Live in Schools program has launched a new, all-online series for the 2020-21 school year, creating cross-disciplinary educational opportunities for students across the country.

The Bolshoi Theatre has begun performances for their 245th season! The theatre on facebook shared: On September 6, after a long break, the doors of The Bolshoi theatre opened again for the audience, and the 245th season started on the Historic stage with 'Don Carlo' opera.

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Brazil's famous Amazon Theatre in Manaus has reopened amid the pandemic, once again bringing performances back to the stage.

Opera Buffs will broadcast “The Enchanted Tail” on Oct.

 A work of art and a call to action, the world premiere of VIGIL pays tribute to Breonna Taylor, the EMT and aspiring nurse who was shot and killed by police in her home, and whose tragic death has fueled an international outcry.

Joseph Calleja has recently released a new album called “The Magic of Mantovani” and it has topped Amazon UK’s opera charts

The Met Opera Chorus, undaunted by the cancellation of the 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera season, has released a project with Rhiannon Giddens in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent events that have shaken the country.

Sarasota Opera is pleased to announce a preliminary lineup for the 2020 season of a?oeHD at the Opera Housea?? opening on Sunday, October 4th.

The five new works, each 20-25 minutes long, will be audio-only recordings that were designed specifically to tell compelling stories with sound design, sung-through vocals, and instrumentsa?"but no visual elements.

For the first time ever, screen legends Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan face off against each other in the epic fantasy-adventure Iron Mask, premiering everywhere on Digital and On Demand November 20th and on Blu-ray and DVD November 24th from Lionsgate.

Dubai Opera is set to host two special screenings of Jackie Chan's return to the silver screen on Friday October 9th.

On Friday, October 23, Houston Grand Opera presents Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera, a hilarious sendup of the little-known Belgian sport of professional finch-calling by composer David T.

Composer, Nathan Felix, is set to release a new chamber opera inspired by Kurdish Political Activist, Abdullah ?-calan.

Award-winning British-Iranian actor and comedian Omid Djalili will star in his enthralling and hilarious 'The Good Times' stand-up comedy show on November 7th at Dubai Opera.

The Royal Opera perform Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in Damiano Michieletto's award-winning double production, recorded in 2015 and broadcast online as part of the Royal Opera House's #OurHouseToYourHouse series.

Jarrett Ott, a Philadelphia opera singer, was married to his husband by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg two summers ago.