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The world premiere of Iain Bell's Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel, following his critically-acclaimed In Parenthesis.

Pittsburgh Opera returns to the Benedum Center with Puccini's La boheme, opera's biggest tear-jerker, March 30-April 7.

The Marquis of Calatrava forbids his daughter Leonora to marry the South American nobleman Don Alvaro.

Gareth Malone and the Opera Holland Park Community Chorus reunite for a special performance at International Opera Awards 2019 – the annual red-carpet gala event on 29 April celebrating achievements in opera – performing at the event for the first time.

New Rochelle Opera will honor Metropolitan Opera Chorus Master Donald Palumbo and Metropolitan Opera Assistant Conductor Gregory Buchalter at its Annual Spring Gala on Thursday, May 2, 2019.

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LA BOHEME, the classic Puccini opera, is playing at Prague National Theatre on April 1, 2019.

New York City Opera has announced that Blythe Gaissert & Michael Kelly and Briana Elyse Hunter & Jorell Williams will comprise the rotating casts of its upcoming production of AS ONE.

Exciting, lively, adventurous and always surprising.

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is announcing that protégés and mentors have been selected for the organization's Women's Opera Network Mentorship Program, now in its second year.

There's lots to enjoy in the Met's revival of DIE WALKURE, the second part of Richard Wagner's great tetralogy, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, better known simply as Wagner's Ring Cycle, which had its first performance of the season on Monday night--all five hours of it!--under the pulsating control of Ph

World Premiere: Court Theater, Munich, 1870.

Was the pairing of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell--respectively, composer and librettist of New York City Opera's (NYCO) world premiere STONEWALL--'love at first sight”? I asked them.

Northern Kentucky University's School of the Arts Opera will be staging Gian Carlo Menotti's one-act comedic opera The Old Maid and the Thief on April 12 & 14 in Greaves Concert Hall at NKU.

Bare Opera will present Astor Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires, directed by and staring as Maria, MALENA DAYEN, conducted by DAVID ROSENMEYER.

Carlos Miguel Prieto, Musical America's 2019 Conductor of the Year, will return to the United Kingdom for the second time this season to conduct the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain's (NYOGB) spring concert tour, in April 2019.

Pittsburgh Opera will unveil industry-first functionality in their mobile app at their performances of La boheme, March 30 - April 7, at the Benedum Center.

Following yesterday's highly competitive semifinal competition, nine singers will advance to the final phase of the 65th annual Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, America's largest vocal competition.

Since 2011 Mezzo-soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson has sung the title role in 12 different productions of Bizet's Carmen.

Capitol City Opera will present two one-act opera comedies in one night! Giacomo Pucinni's Gianni Schicchi tells the story of a greedy family's fight over their dead relative Buoso's fortune.

The Fix, a new opera by composer Joel Puckett and librettist Eric Simons on, premiered on Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.

Since my days as a pothead are long gone (LOL)—did anyone ever watch 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY without a little help from a friend?--I came to the Boston Symphony's (BSO) concert at Carnegie Hall the other night more interested in hearing the excerpts from Richard Strauss's CAPRICCIO, including Renee

ROCO (River Oaks Chamber Orchestra) has announced its 2019-20 season, entitled Coming of Age.

Fort Worth Opera (FWO) is proud to announce a new collaborative partnership with Mexico City-born artist Laura Anderson Barbata, for the world premiere of composer-librettist Rachel J.

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