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Live opera will return this summer with Connecticut Lyric Opera's production of Giacomo Puccini's beloved masterwork La Bohème.

Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances will continue on Friday, July 2 at 7pm with a fully-staged, one-hour abridged performance of Georges Bizet's beloved opera, Carmen, from the New York City Opera.

Special guest stars are  Alison Madill, who  appears singing your Broadway favorites  along with Adeline Cherny and Jared Seaver winners of 'Staten Island Has Talent.

Check out photos from the event, which BroadwayWorld attended on June 18!

Heartbeat Opera has announced that starting July 1, 2021, bass-baritone Derrell Acon will become the company's first Associate Artistic Director.

Opera Maine will celebrate a return to live opera with two performances July 28 and 30 at Merrill Auditorium.

Juneteenth celebrations in Saint Louis got off to an early start on Tuesday, June 15.

An adventurous and lighthearted video series exploring the coupling of the world's greatest opera arias with masterpieces from the world of classical and modern paintings is being launched Thursday evening, June 24, 2021, 7 p.

The Pittsburgh Festival Opera has unveiled its new podcast 'UNSTAGED: Opera from Every Angle' to highlight the great work of staff, performers, musicians, filmmakers and more.

The popular idea of a 'Liederabend' – an evening of song – goes back to Schubertiads and the flowering of German Romantic poetry and song in the 1800s.

Portland Opera is delighted to launch the Ensemble Leaders Fellowship Program—a new course of professional development opportunities for emerging opera administrators with a focus on artistic operations, production, and community engagement.

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Welsh National Opera has announced that the Company will return to touring in Wales and England from Autumn this year.

The 138th season of the Hungarian State Opera will presents seventeen premieres including seven that had to be postponed.

The glorious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened its New Works, Bold Voices Lab.

New York City Opera will return to Bryant Park this weekend for its fourth season of operas as the centerpiece of Bank of America’s Bryant Park Picnic Performance series, beginning this Friday, June 18 with NYCO’s annual LGBTQ Pride concert, Pride in the Park.

The season includes two mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Tosca and two add on experiences- a night of glamour at the Kauffman Center with Lyric Opera Goes to Hollywood and live performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors

The company has had to tell visiting companies that it cannot guarantee being open to receive shows that had previously been scheduled for the summer season.

Rhymes With Opera presents a live, virtual production of Red Giant on Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 7pm ET which will be available for streaming beginning June 22, 2021 at 7pm ET.

This new initiative allows Professional Company Members to receive up to $10,000 to subsidize as much as 50 percent of the fee of a woman stage director or conductor who is contracted for the first time by the company.

Des Moines Metro Opera today announced a $2 million leadership gift from Des Moines-based philanthropists Nix and Virginia Lauridsen in support of a ground-breaking production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, which will kick off the organization's 50th Anniversary Season in 2022.

The Met has announced themed lineups for three weeks of its 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.

North Carolina Opera's General Director, Eric Mitchko has announced the company's upcoming 2021-22 season.

As for FY21, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation has allowed the reallocation of existing grant funds to provide more widespread assistance to all organizational members of OPERA America.

See the newly released video for 'My Beautiful Brown Boy' from dwb (driving while black).