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Mozart's opera, Così fan tutte, opens on Saturday February 12, 2022 for four performances at the San Diego Civic Theatre.

Connecticut Lyric Opera, in association with its partner, Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, will present three performances of Johann Strauss's comedic, crowd-pleasing operetta 'Die Fledermaus' in New Britain, Hartford and New London.

One of New York City's most innovative opera companies, City Lyric Opera, has chosen Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon (Cinderella) to open the company's sixth season.

War, chaos and corruption set the tone for the Giacomo Puccini's iconic opera as Opera Columbus kicks off its 40th season with Tosca, the very first opera it presented upon the company's premiere in 1981.

Texas soprano Rainelle Krause will return to her home state to sing the famous character of Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute with Houston Grand Opera.

Every time I head to a performance of Puccini’s LA BOHEME, I can’t help but think of Bette Davis’s famous line from “All About Eve”: “I detest cheap sentiment.

OPERA America has announced the recipients of the 2022 IDEA Opera Residencies (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) program, an initiative that provides New York City-based composers and librettists of color an opportunity to explore opera as an expressive medium.

The Opera Orlando ENCORE! series returns for the 2021-22 season with the co-stream of the new song cycle Unknown available Thursday, November 11, through Thursday, November 18.

Reflecting its deep commitment and connection to the veteran community, The Atlanta Opera will honor veterans in November with the release of two works centered on Tom Cipullo's Glory Denied, a distinctly American saga about the nation's longest-held prisoner of war, who returns from the jungles of

Heartbeat Opera will bring back its beloved drag opera extravaganza.

Airborne insects, a wax model of a melting human head, a Handel opera restaged with moths and the attack on the US Capitol weave an intricate web of multimedia works in British poet, writer and visual artist Redell Olsen's DARE Art Prize commission Weather, Whether Radar: Plume of the Volants, which

Puccini’s Tosca will return to The Metropolitan opera in David McVicar’s thrilling production December 2–March 12.

Riverside Opera Company invites all to enjoy arias, duets, dance and fellowship at an evening of Riverside Opera: Tosca and Tango, Saturday, November 20, 2021, 7:30 p.

Watch the Royal Opera Chorus perform the Witches Chorus from Phyllida Lloyd's production of The Royal Opera's Macbeth.

Renowned singer Sinitta has joined the cast to play the role of 'Mama Morton' in the acclaimed musical, alongside Faye Brookes as 'Roxie Hart', West End and TV star Darren Day as Billy Flynn, Djalenga Scott as 'Velma Kelly' and Joel Montague as 'Amos Hart'.

SITTOPERA ™  will present Champagne and Opera with Magnificent Matshikiza, a recital by South African lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza to be held at the Rand Club Ballroom  in Johannesburg on Friday 12 November 2021.

There are so many things to like about the season’s revival of Gershwin’s PORGY & BESS, which was new in the 2019-2020 season, before Covid became the “song” that no one wanted to hear.

Opera in the Heights, after a year and a half of alternative programming online and outdoors, has announced its return to fully-staged productions in its home venue, Lambert Hall.

Pittsburgh Opera returns to the Benedum Center, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with Mozart’s most-celebrated opera - the mystical adventure The Magic Flute.

South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim, who became music director of San Francisco Opera this fall, will make her Met debut leading Puccini’s La Bohème November 9, marking the first of five female conductors to take the Met podium this season—the most in Met history.

David Newkirk, Chair of Charlottesville Opera's Board of Directors and Christina DeMarea, General Director, announced that Caroline Worra has been named Artistic Director of the nonprofit company, effective immediately.

On Friday, November 26, 2021 at 7:30pm MST, Edmonton Opera will present the digital world premieres of Canadian composer Vivian Fung's two operatic scenes, Grover and Friends and Alarm, as part of their Wild Rose Opera Project.

Vancouver Opera is returning to live performances at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for the 2021-2022 season.

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For the first time in almost seven years, the Metropolitan Opera has revived Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG.