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According to France 24, the Paris Opera will close its houses for years of renovation work.

I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO and TRAVIATA, considered the great creations of Verdi’s middle period--made me think of another masterwork, “A Night at the Opera,” my favorite of the movies by those champions of silliness, the Marx Brothers.

Mezzo-soprano Ariana Maubach of Toronto took home First Prize and the Audience Choice Prize at the Canadian Opera Company’s 11th annual Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on October 30, 2024 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.

The snowfall in Act III of Franco Zeffirelli’s staging of Puccini’s La Bohème is one of the most breathtaking moments on the Met stage.

Snow will fall in San José when one of opera’s greatest love stories, Puccini’s La Bohème, returns to Opera San José.

Winners of the 21st Annual ITALIAN IDOL COMPETITION were announced at Wagner College.

Renée Fleming has been named as the 2025 Festival Director for the Cincinnati May Festival, bringing her expertise to the renowned choral event.

The Canadian Opera Company has announced a new partnership with Lucie and The Social & Co.

Opera Atelier’s production of G.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present special events to accompany the premiere of BLUE, including panel discussions and community engagement activities, enhancing the opera experience for attendees.

The Gerda Lissner Foundation revealed the winners of its recent 2024 Lieder/Song Vocal Competition.

OPERA America has announced the induction of seven exemplary artists, administrators, and advocates to the Opera Hall of Fame as the class of 2024.

Check out photos from San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde here!

Osvaldo Golijov’s AINADAMAR, which made its Met debut this week, with a libretto translated by the composer from the English original by David Henry Hwang, isn’t the first Spanish language opera at the Met, but it’s certainly the first to sound that way.

This season, Tapestry Opera will celebrate 45 years of producing innovative, powerful opera that reflects and changes the world around us.

Get a first video look at Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning first opera at the Met in a stunning new production by Deborah Colker, starring Angel Blue, Elena Villalón, and Daniela Mack.

New York's first disability-affirmative opera company Opera Praktikos (OPrak) will present “There Will Be Cake” – a matinee mono-opera concert series on Thursday-Saturday, December 12-14, 2024, at 1:30 p.

San Francisco Opera has announced the release of Eun Sun Kim: A Journey Into Lohengrin, an hour-long film by San Francisco Opera and Lumahai Productions, the partners behind the Company’s award-winning In Song video portrait series.

Utah Opera's production of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD opens tomorrow at the Capitol Theatre, just in time for Halloween.

Brazilian actor Douglas Tholedo joins the cast of the Met Opera's new production of AIDA for the 2024/2025 season, featuring elaborate projections and animations set in ancient Egypt.

If you're a parent, brace yourself - and enjoy the glorious singing and fine music writes our critic about TROUBLE IN TAHITI and THE QUIET PLACE.

Watch the joyful finale of Beethoven's FIDELIO where Leonore (Elza van den Heever) and Florestan (Russell Thomas) celebrate freedom and love after Pizzaro's corrupt schemes are exposed.

Get a first look at the production of Rigoletto now on stage at the Met Opera in this all-new video.

Opera Hispánica has announced its 2024-25 season featuring exciting collaborations and repertoire raging from the Latin American Baroque to World Premieres.

Teatro Grattacielo and Light Opera of NJ will present L'ELISIR D'AMORE in New Jersey, featuring emerging talents from Camerata Bardi Voice Academy.