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Every once in a while, a show comes along that takes you completely by surprise.

Northern Ireland Opera announces the return of live opera performances with a unique and exhilarating new production of Puccini’s La Bohème this September.

Opera Naples, one of Naples' leading performing arts organization, welcomes new Development Director, Carla Calavitta.

Portland Opera has announced that Priti Gandhi has joined the company as artistic director.

A female-led world premiere, Staggerwing brings to life the historical and dangerous flight of aviatrixes Louis Thaden and Blanche Noyes as they compete for and win the grueling transcontinental 1936 Bendix Trophy Race.

Members of the Chorus will discuss the opportunities, joys and challenges of their work and perform excerpts including Bizet’s Carmen, Verdi’s Falstaff, Britten's Peter Grimes and many more best-loved operas.

In 1987, he founded the Birmingham Opera Company.

Opening Sunday, July 25, Ernest Chausson’s only opera, King Arthur (“Le roi Arthus”), will receive its long overdue first fully staged American production at Bard SummerScape.

Opera Orlando's annual Summer Concert Series (formerly Opera on Park) returns live and in person to the University Club of Winter Park this August.

With Opening Night approaching and the return of live opera on the horizon, the Met has announced the end of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the extremely popular series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on its website during the Covid-19 closure.

The season consists of Bluebeard's Castle, Lawrence Brownlee: Cycles of My Being, and Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem.

What is gatekeeping and how does it present itself in opera? Journalist Alexandra Coghlan chairs a panel of artists and industry leaders in a discussion surrounding the form and history of opera and how this can create barriers to entering the art form.

Pink, voguing, drag, stiletto heels, opera, seeing that list, you may feel that opera seems out of place, but you couldn't be more wrong.

LA Opera's newest Digital Short, The Zolle Suite, is now available to watch online.

As part of its expanded season of programming, Pittsburgh Festival Opera will welcome four stars of today's opera world to Pittsburgh for the 'Legends in the Limelight' series at Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland.

Arcola Theatre today announced the full programme of productions in the 2021 Grimeborn Opera Festival, which is returning for its 14th year.

The Santa Fe Opera announces the following casting updates for the 2021 Season opening on July 10 and running through August 27: Laurie Feldman will direct The Marriage of Figaro after a concept by French Director Laurent Pelly, who is unable to travel to Santa Fe due to international travel restric

The Met has announced a lineup of operas by Giacomo Puccini for its 70th week of Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company’s ongoing series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on its website during the Covid-19 closure.

Recently the Bolshoi Theatre presented Tchaikovsky's three acts opera 'Mazeppa', based on Pushkin's poem 'Poltava', part of cultural legacy of Mazeppa.

On Site Opera, New York's pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific storytelling and the immersive experience, in partnership with the South Street Seaport Museum, brings opera aboard the deck of the historic tall ship Wavertree with What Lies Beneath, August 28-September 2, 2021.

On June 27th, 2019, Des Moines Metro Opera announced its 2020 season to the public but what captured my attention was a barber's chair dimly lit by a window above it.

San Diego’s classical music scene coped with the COVID-19 invasion by trading shuttered concert halls for parking lots and online media.

Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park celebrates its twentieth year on Saturday, July 24 at 8pm in Garner Park on  Madison’s West Side.

While fireworks may have been going off outside on July 3, Des the Des Moines Metro Opera continued their grand opening weekend after a year with no live opera.

Opera Naples, a leading performing arts organization in Southwest Florida, will present W.