Review: Spectacular Nadine Sierra Shines in Villazon’s Somnolent SONNAMBULA by Bellini
Sometimes great singing can save a bad production.
CARMEN to Return to the Metropolitan Opera in October
Carrie Cracknell’s production of Carmen will return to the Met for 13 performances beginning in October.
LA BOHEME to Return to The Metropolitan Opera in October
Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème will return to the Met stage for 20 performances featuring many of today’s leading artists.
Seven Emerging Artists Advance To Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition
The Canadian Opera Company has announced the seven finalists for the 2025 Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition, taking place October 23, 2025, at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre.
The Met: Live In HD Season Opens With LA SONNAMBULA
The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula marks the beginning of the 19th season of The Met: Live in HD, with Nadine Sierra making her company role debut as Amina and Xabier Anduaga in his company role debut as Elvino
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s HILDEGARD Premieres at Los Angeles Opera
Snider’s first opera, HILDEGARD, for which she also wrote the libretto, will be presented in rolling world premieres by Los Angeles Opera (November 5-9, 2025) and PROTOTYPE Festival in New York (January 9-17, 2026), with subsequent performances at the Aspen Music Festival and School (Summer
Review: ZORRO at Arizona Opera
Héctor Armienta’s operatic reimagining of ZORRO is a richly textured work that fuses bravado and romance into a timely meditation on liberty.
Review: CINDERELLA, London Coliseum
It’s over 40 years since English National Opera staged Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola) and they open their 2025-26 season with a vibrant new production of the sparkling comedy.
Photos: THE MIKADO Comes to New York in Utopia Opera and Forbear! Theatre Co-Production
Utopia Opera and London’s Forbear! Theatre will bring their fantasy-inspired production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado to New York City for four performances, October 3–5 at Hunter College.
Review: Met Season’s First DON GIOVANNI Shows Off a Great Score for the Audience to Relish
Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI was one of my first operas and remains among my favorites, despite its misogyny and the difficulty in putting together the kind of cast that can do justice to the string of show-stoppers in the score.
Review: Nothing Rusticana about the Met’s Premiere KAVALIER from Bates and Sheer
Anyone familiar with Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prizer-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY must be a bit bewildered at how a 700-page novel could be turned into a 3-hour opera.
Young Opera Stars From Teatro Real Perform New York Debut Next Month
New York City's leading chamber choir, Musica Viva NY, presents TEATRO REAL: Crescendo, a one-night only concert at Manhattan's All Souls NYC.
Sandra Oh Will Appear in Met Opera's LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
Sandra Oh,freshly off her acclaimed performances in Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, will make her Met debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment on October 17.
Cast Change Announced for JAKUB HRŮŠA AND FRIENDS IN CONCERT September 20
The Royal Opera House has announced that Nicky Spence will replace Pavel Černoch in the tenor role of Dvořák’s The Spectre’s Bride during Jakub Hrůša and Friends in Concert on September 20, 2025.
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center Reveals Singers for the 2026/27 Ensemble
Lyric Opera of Chicago has revealed the singers selected for its 2026/27 Ensemble at the Final Auditions held on September 14 in the Ardis Krainik Theatre.
Preview: KAVALIER & CLAY Brings Three Sound Worlds to Met Season-Opener
The forces behind the Met’s latest try at bringing a different (sic: younger) audience to the house, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, joined forces at the Guggenheim’s Works & Process series last week to introduce the new work to a receptive crowd.
Review: TOSCA, Starring Anna Netrebko, Royal Ballet and Opera
If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible.
THE MAGIC FLUTE and More Set for Opera Carolina 2025-26 Season
Opera Carolina - the largest professional opera company in the Carolinas - has revealed programming for its upcoming 76th season with an ambitious lineup of grand operas, special concerts, philanthropic events, and community initiatives.
CARMEN Will Open Dallas Opera's 2025/2026 Season
The Dallas Opera (TDO) opens its 2025/2026 Season with the U.
Video: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY In Rehearsal
Rehearsals are underway for the Met premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel.
2025-2026 YoungArts Fellows Revealed, Granting $30,000 to Five Artists
YoungArts revealed the 2025-2026 YoungArts Fellows, the institution's most significant award given to five mid-career artists across disciplines from around the country.
Divaria Opera To Return To Bay Street With WE ARE CARMEN
Bay Street Theater will present Divaria Opera's We Are Carmen (Somos Carmen), a powerful multidisciplinary performance celebrating the 150th anniversary of the premiere of Bizet's Carmen.
Lyric Opera Unveils Details for Cherubini's MEDEA
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2025/26 Season will kick off with a searing tale of vengeance and betrayal: Cherubini’s Medea.
Utopia Opera Will Present Fantasy-Inspired Take On GIlbert & Sullivan’s THE MIKADO
From October 3–5, Utopia Opera will present Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado in a fantasy-inspired co-production with London’s Forbear! Theatre.
Atchley Opera Will Present A Double Bill Of Puccini’s SUOR ANGELICA and GIANNI SCHICCHI
This fall, Atchley Opera, Fort Worth’s newest opera company, will invite audiences to experience the full range of human emotion through the exquisite storytelling and music of Giacomo Puccini.
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