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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.

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.

The Cairo Opera House's Christmas concerts will continue as scheduled.

A dramatic monologue for mezzo-soprano, narrator, clarinet, viola and guitar, The Lady in the Moonlight (1977) is, from both the technical and the expressive point of view, one of the greatest achievements in the invaluable oeuvre of Yorgo Sicilianos(1920-2005), undoubtedly one of the most serio

Christman Opera Company has announced the premiere of The Impresario and the Dueling Divas - a one act opera to be presented on the Zoom streaming platform.

Finnish National Opera and Ballet will present Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci 26.

As the year 2020 draws to a close, stars past and present of New York City Opera (NYCO) have come to the aid of “The People’s Opera” by participating in Un Zoomo in Maschera, a word from the artists of New York City Opera, a special year-end fundraiser which was be released today.

It was quite a musical extravaganza as Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus: The Revenge of the Bat landed in the Walt Disney Theater at Dr.

As the year 2020 draws to a close, stars past and present of New York City Opera (NYCO) have come to the aid of “The People’s Opera” by participating in Un Zoomo in Maschera, a word from the artists of New York City Opera, a special year-end fundraiser which will be released on social media t

Bridge Records has announced a new recording of Visca L'Amor: Catalan  Art Songs of the 20th and 21st Centuries, featuring tenor Isaí Jess Muñoz and pianist Oksana Glouchko.