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The Orchestra Now, the visionary orchestra and master’s degree program founded by Bard College president, conductor, educator, and music historian Leon Botstein, returns to the stage for its seventh season on September 11.

San Diego Opera's safe return to indoor performances begins with three intimate concerts showcasing some of today's most exciting singers with a varied and diverse repertoire of opera, show tunes, spirituals, and zarzuela, as well as a number of surprises.

Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances continues on Friday, September 3 at 7pm with a 90-minute version of Rigoletto from New York City Opera.

A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.

The Oratorio Society of New York announces the winners of its 44th Annual Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals held on Saturday, August 21 at 1:30pm at The Riverside Church.

The pandemic has not halted Opera Memphis’s forward momentum as the company continues to expand its reach in the community with the addition and promotion of two impressive women of color.

The Metropolitan Opera will present a pre-season performance of Verdi’s Requiem to commemorate the 20th anniversary of September 11.

The Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD presentations return to Gettysburg College's Majestic Theater for the 2021-2022 season.

On Friday, 29 August, the Riga Jurmala Music Festival's educational programme (in cooperation with the Embassy of the United States of America in Latvia) present a vocal masterclass with the legendary American soprano Renée Fleming, available to stream for free via the Riga Jurmala Academy Facebook

New Camerata Opera announces that tickets are now on sale for performances of Cav + Pag, a bold and innovative adaptation of two classic verismo operas performed with a chamber orchestra.

Brinker received the only standing ovation last night, and judge Simon Cowell made the prediction, 'You are going to be one of the biggest stars to emerge from this show.

Pittsburgh Opera will be rebroadcasting the livestreams of all four operas from its 2020-21 season, free on its YouTube channel, between August 26th and September 2nd.

In late 2020, Opera Atelier learned that it was the recipient of an $83,000 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Government of Ontario, to provide greater accessibility to the company's free online Making of an Opera education program for Ontario yo

Columbus' arts and medical communities are collaborating on a project to dramatically increase COVID vaccination rates in Muscogee County.

The Atlanta Opera returns to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre this season for its four mainstage productions: Handel's Julius Caesar in Egypt, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Rossini's Barber of Seville, and Mason Bates's The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.

Celebrating 50 years, and the first full season under the artistic leadership of Gary L.

The first full production in its 2021-2022 season, the opera company will present Tazewell Thompson’s powerful opera, BLUE for two performances, September 11 & 12 both at 7PM at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre.

Southwest Florida's regional opera company - Gulfshore Opera - will bring the dramatic beauty of Puccini's Tosca to all three counties as the finale for Season 8.

Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organizations, has announced the 2021-22 season.

Portland Opera has updated attendance and ticketing policies for the 21/22 season to reflect the company's ongoing commitment to safety and well-being during the pandemic.

Creative Time presents artist Kamala Sankaram's first public artwork, The Last Stand, on view September 18–October 10, 2021, in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY.

San Diego Opera has announced the winning proposals from the Company's second “Opera Hack,” a month-long online interdisciplinary event for music/theater and technology experts to explore how technology can be applied to the production, presentation, and consumption of opera.

A historic focal point in the city, this beautifully decayed church provides the perfect atmospheric backdrop to tell the story about a group of Bohemians who are all searching and desperately trying to find their way in life and love.

The Met’s popular Summer HD Festival returns on Saturday, August 28, featuring a lineup of ten free encore presentations from the company’s popular Live in HD series, as well as a special pre-festival screening of Susan Froemke’s acclaimed documentary The Opera House.

The Leadership Intensive exemplifies OPERA America's long-standing commitment to identify and encourage the field's most promising administrators who will help move opera forward for years to come.