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The Royal Opera’s spell-binding production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute returns to the Royal Opera House on 15 September 2021.

The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it has appointed Debra Lew Harder as the new host of its radio broadcasts, the longest-running classical music program in American radio history, which began 90 years ago in 1931.

For one of the most popular operas in the traditional repertoire--ABC in the opera world means AIDA, BOHEME and CARMEN--the work by Bizet has had to have more lives than the proverbial cat to get there.

Though the Met’s season doesn’t technically start till the end of the month, the company started off with a pair of what French chefs might call “amuses bouches”—sort of tastebud teasers.

Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is thrilled to announce two new free partner performances this month.

The Metropolitan Opera announced today that Anthony Davis's X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X will have its company premiere on November 3, 2023, making it the second opera by a Black composer in Met history, after Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it will present a free, live simulcast of the Opening Night performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones—the first opera by a Black composer ever performed by the Met—on Monday, September 27 at 6:30pm ET in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey

David Bennett is now six years into his job as general director of the San Diego Opera Association.

Vancouver Opera has announced the return of live performances for the 2021-2022 season.

This September, The American Opera Project, one of America’s leading homes for the creation of original lyric theater, kicks off its 33rd season with premiere music from five distinctive new operas at an outdoor concert in its home neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Michelle DeYoung will be the mezzo-soprano soloist in the September 11, 2021, performance of Verdi’s Requiem, replacing Elīna Garanča, who is indisposed.

With the current rise in Covid-19 cases, and to help ensure the well-being of the entire community, USUO has updated its health guidelines for indoor public performances at Abravanel Hall and Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.

BOA and international arts management consultants TRG Arts have released their second Insight Report, 'US Opera Company Responses to 'Pledge for Racial Equity and Systemic Change in Opera' and Next Steps,' to track progress U.

​​​​What can I say, Tosca was so great I really don't know where to start.

Grand opera returns to the big screen with the 2021–22 season of Live in HD transmissions.

The Franklin Light Opera Company has announced its premiere production of Pauline Viardot's Cinderella, at the Williamson County Performing Arts Center at Academy Park, 112 Everbright Ave, Franklin, TN 37064.

The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced the winners of the 23rd annual Lotte Lenya Competition, which took place before an invitation-only audience at the Riverside Theatre in New York City on August 28.

Composer Michael Hersch is looking forward to the world and Austrian premieres of his second opera.

American Lyric Theater today announces that three composers and three librettists have been selected from over 200 applicants to join the Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) as Resident Artists this season.

Opera Australia has been given an additional $5 million in grants from the Federal Government’s Arts Sustainability Fund.

The Met today announced a new season of live performances with in-person audiences beginning fall 2021 and a new Artist in Residence, the acclaimed dancer and choreographer Bijayini Satpathy.

Contemporaneous presents “Day of Imagination,” a Day-Long Festival of World Premieres by Kara-Lis Coverdale, Brian Petuch, Andrés Martínez de Velasco, and Dylan Mattingly on Saturday, September 18, 2021, 2-10pm at The Space at Irondale in Brooklyn, NY

Peter Holsberg, Director of Instrumental Music at Talent Unlimited High School in New York City, shares a wealth of tips for anyone looking for ways to practice more effectively.

The Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) is pleased to announce that its 2021 Award for BEST NEW OPERA—a major recognition given annually by an Awards Committee of distinguished music critics—goes to composers Du Yun and Raven Chacon and librettists Aja Couchois Duncan and Doug

Poulenc's one act opera, La Voix Humaine will be presented at the 2021 KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival (Tuesday, Sept.