OPERA OPERA NEWS COVERAGE

English National Opera has announced that Du Yun's Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Angel's Bone will open at the London Coliseum in October, following its UK premiere in Greater Manchester in May, marking a bold expression of ENO's dual-centre model. Angel's Bone opens at Aviva Studios, Manchester, ho...

Teatro Círculo will present Fiesta de la Zarzuela, conceived and directed by Maestro Pablo Zinger, as part of Teatro Fest NYC 2026. Teatro Círculo's musical director Pablo Zinger will also provide the live piano accompaniment. ...

Portland Opera has launched a multi-phase $5 million fundraising initiative titled KEEP PORTLAND OPERATIC – Save Our Song. Secure Our Future.The 16-month campaign is designed to stabilize current operations, protect artistic programming, and position the company for long-term sustainability....

Composer Hans Thomalla will release his new opera DARK FALL, based on Goethe's 'Elective Affinities', on April 3, 2026. The opera, conducted by GRAMMY-winning Alan Pierson, features a talented cast and will be available on Oehms Classics....

With its new production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, CIM Opera Theater this month will draw its spring season to a cheery close. CIM's opera season finale boasts an ending that's both literally and figuratively out of a storybook. ...

The world premiere of Time to Act was performed in front of a sold-out house on Saturday, February 28th, at the Bitz Opera Factory in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. See photos!...

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music will present an exclusive preview of O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, a new opera-ballet commissioned by Washington National Opera....

The new season, the 70th in Lyric Opera’s history, will include four mainstage productions at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, including La bohème and Aida....

I talk with John Holiday about his upcoming LA Opera star performance in Akhnaten, his creative process, and his widely anticipated upcoming album Over My Head, releasing this July....

Opera is widely considered to be a seasonal flower.  Around the world opera festivals show their shoots in early spring, they blossom in the summer, and they stretch their glory into the fall.  In St. Louis, though, we find one of the few fine opera companies willing to brave the icy blasts of win...

The Atlanta Opera will present a dynamic 2026-2027 season with seven productions, including classic and contemporary operas and musical theatre, before relocating to a new venue....

What did our critic think of LA BOHEME IN CINEMAS at Cinemas Across The UK?...

Jonas Kaufmann will release MAGISCHE TÖNE on April 10, 2026 via Sony Classical. Recorded with the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra and conducted by Dirk Kaftan, the album features operetta favorites and the tenor aria “Magische Töne” from Die Königin von Saba....

Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting the world premiere of safronia, a landmark musical composition commissioned from Chicago’s first Poet Laureate, the interdisciplinary artist avery r. young. ...

Watch the official trailer for INNOCENCE at The Metropolitan Opera, Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, conducted by Susanna Mälkki and starring Joyce DiDonato....

If you have ever suspected that opera might benefit from fewer Valkyries and more vaudeville, Opera Locos is here to confirm your prejudice and then sing it at you in Italian....

Mannes Opera at The New School College of Performing Arts will present the U.S. premiere of THE SILENT SERENADE (Die Stumme Serenade) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold on March 13 and March 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City....

The Canadian Opera Company has released a first look trailer for its upcoming double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung, directed by acclaimed Canadian stage director Robert Lepage....

Riverside Opera Company will present ROC BLACK VOICES on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 76 Franklin Avenue. The Black History Month performance will feature vocalist Dorian Lake and his band in a program of popular selections, jazz standards, spirituals, and ins...

Independent Opera Company will present Carl Orff's opera DIE KLUGE, based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, with performances in North Hollywood this March....

Sarasota Opera will open Susannah­­­­­­­ on Saturday, March 14 — the fourth and final production in its 2026 Winter Festival. Audiences have six opportunities to see the production, which runs through March 28....

Though only a handful of Emily Dickinson’s hundreds of poems were published during her lifetime (more than 1700 others were found posthumously), she is best known as a risk-taking writer whose work straddled the line between the straightforward and the more abstract. Inaddition, she has long been ...

Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak will sing the role of Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly for the remainder of the run, replacing Sonya Yoncheva....

In the traditionally Eurocentric world of opera, an Eastern face on stage can still prompt a double take. For Yuchen Pan, the Chinese-born tenor who has recently performed on some of Europe’s most venerable stages, this reality is neither a barrier nor a preoccupation—it is a context. His approa...

This is the final chance to submi nominations for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year. ...

The winners of the prestigious 2026 George London Awards have been announced, with the competition available for viewing on YouTube. This event highlights emerging talents in the opera world....

Tempesta di Mare, the Philadelphia-based baroque orchestra, will present LE DONNE MUSICALI: ITALIAN WOMEN’S MUSIC FROM THE BAROQUE February 27 through March 1 at venues throughout the Greater Philadelphia area....

Join the Vergennes Opera House for its last OFF Stage event of the season featuring Josh Celevenstine at Rockers Pizzeria on March 28. This family-friendly event is free to the public....

Rossini’s Barber of Seville is a top ten opera in performances. Donors love it for its vocal gymnastics, memorable arias and sparkling melodies. Receptive newcomers like it because of its delightful bubbling overture, the familiar Figaro aria that soon follows, and its simple fast-moving sitcom-li...

San Diego Opera will stage Bizet's CARMEN with Melody Wilson, Guadalupe Paz, Thomas Kinch, and Jonny Kaufmann in lead roles....

Opera Orlando will host its 2026 OPERAZZI BASH at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The fundraiser will support the company’s education programs, including the Opera Orlando Youth Company....

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin....

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers will hold its 54th event in 2026, with a public final round at New York's Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center....

Washington National Opera General Director Timothy O'Leary discusses the company's transition, community support, rebuilding operations, and future plans, including upcoming productions of TREEMONISHA, THE CRUCIBLE, and WEST SIDE STORY....

Sarasota Opera has announced two exciting summer training opportunities for young singers: Sarasota Youth Opera Summer Camp and the Sarasota Opera Vocal Academy, a specialized intensive for pre-college vocalists....

The Canadian Opera Company has unveiled its 2026/2027 season, featuring a Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Can...

The Canadian Opera Company has announced that David C. Ferguson will be conferred the title of General Director Emeritus at the conclusion of his current term as General Director, a prestigious reflection of decades of service to the COC....

Sarasota Opera will continue its proud tradition of presenting operas by Giuseppe Verdi with Il trovatore. Il trovatore was the most popular of Verdi's works during his lifetime, and it remains one of his most performed....

TIED will run March 6–22 at Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company in New York City. The one-man play, written by Crystal Rae and performed by Jason E. Carmichael, explores the personal aftermath of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing....

Wilmington Concert Opera will present the world premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's first opera Loksi' Shaali' the first opera in a Native American language, at the 2026 Opera America Conference in Wilmington, DE....