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Love the movies but love the soundtracks even more? The UAE-based NSO Symphony Orchestra, conducted by NSO Music Director Andrew Berryman, brings an array of spectacular film scores to life in a rousing concert this February at Dubai Opera as the orchestra celebrates its tenth anniversary.

German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann is urging authorities to open up concert halls again.

After a long break, The Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and  Alexander Spendiaryan will resume its activities.

Audiences have been raving about the Opera Orlando ENCORE! presentation of Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus: The Revenge of the Bat recorded live on December 17 and 19 in the Walt Disney Theater at Dr.

Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Opera Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local opera of the past decade!

From January 18–23, 2021, renowned soprano Renée Fleming will mentor six pairs of aspiring young singers and pianists from around the world in the third year of SongStudio, an innovative program exploring the future of the vocal recital.

The Curtis Opera Theatre announces a new virtual offering entitled Opera OnDemand.

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure.

On Tuesday, January 26 at 7 p.

The Opera has had to postpone the piano workshop of its first commissioned opera, The Secret River, and will now launch the Opera on the Town series with the world premiere of Death of Ivan Ilych in partnership with Thompson Street Opera Company.

Award-winning conductor Riccardo Muti, the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is supporting the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

City Opera Vancouver's first online opera will be released on Monday 11 January 2021, beginning at noon.

Opera Orlando’s MainStage series continues with the remount of Opera Orlando’s acclaimed production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel.

Meet Felix Jarrar, a tireless, young, queer composer and one of the many artists proving that hard times can inspire some of our greatest work.

The world's finest tribute band, The Bootleg Beatles, will bring their acclaimed performances and perfect recreation of the greatest rock band of all time to Dubai Opera on January 27th and 28th.

Enigma Chamber Opera has announced their second production - 'a lockdown opera for the Covid age'!

On January 8, 2021, Opera Philadelphia presented BON APPETIT! A SWEET SOIREE.

How many lives can a person live in just 34 years? Before her early death, the French-Jewish philosopher and mystic Simone Weil took part in the Spanish Civil War, worked in a refugee camp, in a factory and as a teacher.

Looks can be deceiving, as the New Year’s Eve edition of the Met’s “Live in Concert” series proved in abundance.

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała will perform a live concert on Saturday, January 23, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.

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

Andrea Peters found Pablo, a starving and flea-ridden dog, in Italy in 2012.

Thanks to a generous contribution from Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his life partner Pierre Tourville, any donations from January 4-27, 2021 will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 - $25,000 each to the orchestra and the chorus.

Portland Opera is continuing the resident artist program this season, including recitals featuring the 20/21 Portland Opera Resident Artists.

AFM Local 802 has released a statement on the outsourcing of musicians for last night's Metropolitan Opera Gala.