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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.

Opera singer Denyce Graves recently performed as part of a memorial for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

SiriusXM and Pandora present a special encore presentation of A Love Supreme: Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Opera.

Due to Covid19, WNO Youth Opera groups based in Cardiff, Llandudno and Birmingham had to stop their weekly sessions.

Having commissioned or co-commissioned more than 15 new works since 2011, Opera Philadelphia is recognized as “one of North America's premiere generators of valid new operas” (Opera News).

The Met has announced themed lineups for the next three weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure.

With the forthcoming launch of the Opera Philadelphia Channel, a global streaming platform where artists can perform and explore, the company has commissioned four of today’s most dynamic composers to create and premiere new works to be streamed on the channel.

Vancouver Opera has announced a reimagined 2020-2021 season embracing digital content with diverse and high-quality series of programming marking their first-ever digital season.

OperaVision has released an online animated opera, APART/MENTAL, available to stream now on YouTube.

The Cliburn announces today that the sixteenth edition of its flagship Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will now be held June 2–18, 2022, at Bass Performance Hall and Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU, in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.