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 Lyric Opera of Chicago will Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s El último sueño de Frida y Diego. What unfolds is a dreamlike journey through memory, passion, and everything they created together — both on canvas and in life....

Get a first look at Hamburg State Opera's world premiere of Monster's Paradise, a new opera by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth with a German-language libretto by Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek....

Christopher Koelsch, the Sebastian Paul and Marybelle Musco President and CEO of LA Opera, has announced details for the company's 2026/27 season, which will launch on October 17, 2026....

San Francisco Opera will present a dynamic 2026-27 season, featuring a mix of classic operas and new productions. Highlights include premieres and revivals at the iconic War Memorial Opera House....

The full lineup of titles and artists has been revealed for Seattle Opera's 2026/27 season. An exploration of love in all its facets, the company's 63rd season features two classic operas returning to Seattle for the first time in a quarter century....

Opera Colorado will present its 2026–27 Season featuring a mix of fully staged operas, concerts, touring productions, and community-focused programming in Denver and throughout the region. ...

Sarasota Opera will present THE MERRY WIDOW by Franz Lehár as part of its 2026 Winter Festival. The operetta will open on February 21 and run through March 27 following the festival’s opening production of LA BOHÈME. ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, on stage in a production that dares to ask: what if everything we think we know about this classic opera is only half the story?...

Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of DER SILBERSEE: EIN WINTERMÄRCHEN (THE SILVER LAKE – A WINTER’S FAIRY TALE) by Kurt Weill, with text by Georg Kaiser, from March 4 through March 8 at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago....

If Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov were a dinner party, Richard Jones’s Russian-language revival at the Royal Opera House would be the dinner date where you arrive bright and curious and leave questioning your life choices, nursing a neat whisky in a corner. This is not an opera that gives up its sec...

Teatro Lirico D'Europa will present the opera CARMEN at the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts this Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 3pm. Set in Seville around the year 1830, Carmen tells a passionate story of love, jealousy, and betrayal. Carmen is Georges Bizet's most celebrated opera....

Starting with the 2026–2027 season, Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic will partner with Carnegie Hall on a five-year project that will annually bring exciting presentations of opera in concert to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage....

BroadwayWorld is now accepting nominations for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year. Nominations close February 28th, 2026....

Australia's internationally acclaimed vocal group, The TEN Tenors, will return to the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts on Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. ...

Lyric Opera of Kansas City has received a grant from The Missouri Humanities Council to support their new touring program, LANGSTON HUGHES: A LYRICAL LIFE....

The audience at New York’s 92nd Street Y the other night was certainly happy to be at a recital, “From Ordinary Things,” by the trio of soprano Julia Bullock, with her colleagues Seth Parler Wood on cello and pianist Conor Hanick. But there was almost nothing traditional about the proce...

Opera Philadelphia has confirmed the extension of contracts for General Director Anthony Roth Costanzo and Music Director Corrado Rovaris until May 2029....

Washington National Opera celebrates its 70th anniversary year and new future as an independent organization with an important new community initiative, Save Seventy Seats....

A revival of Cal McCrystal’s 2021 production, HMS Pinafore at the London Coliseum charms with wit, a stunning cast, and gorgeous Victorian designs....

Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2025/26 Season will continue with Richard Strauss’s electrifying Salome. Salome returns to Lyric for the first time in 20 years in Sir David McVicar’s production. Get a first look at production photos here!...

Opera San José will close its 2025-26 season devoted to exploring “What is love?” with a definitive Italian operatic story of all-encompassing passion and profound loss....

Calgary Opera will present its 2026/27 season, showcasing a blend of classic operas and contemporary pieces. The season aims to cater to diverse audiences with performances that highlight both traditional and modern operatic works....

Acclaimed soprano Nola Richardson will return to Houston for a special Valentine's Day performance with Ars Lyrica, featuring a program of French Baroque music....

The Verdi Messa da Requiem—better known to English speakers as the Verdi Requiem—featuring the Cleveland Orchestra and its Chorus, with a quartet of soloists, breezed into Carnegie Hall the other night and promptly knocked many concert-goers out of their seats....

The Dallas Opera has been awarded a significant $25 million challenge grant by the O'Donnell Foundation to support its future endeavors and artistic projects....

Boston Ballet will present Winter Experience, a program comprised of two high-octane ballets that have made a mark on dance history: Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) and Crystal Pite’s The Seasons’ Canon....

A bold statement of opera industry solidarity with the Washington National Opera was issued following the news of the company's decision to leave Kennedy Center. A group of more than 60 opera industry leaders, including John Adams, Kevin Puts, Kelli O'Hara, Joyce DiDonato, John Corigliano, Isabel Le...

Two powerful women will be at the helm when Opera San José returns in the new year with the operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. See photos here!...

Washington National Opera’s planned separation from the Kennedy Center is moving into a complex legal stage, with negotiations underway over assets, facilities, and the future of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra....

Piedmont Opera has appointed Joseph Mechavich as General Director, a move that aligns with the company's upcoming 50th anniversary. Mechavich's leadership is expected to enhance the opera's commitment to high-quality productions and community engagement....

The Flea Theater will host workshop performances of When the Smoke Clears, a new chamber opera by Colin Greer and N. Scott Johnson. Directed by Danilo Gambini, the work explores community, displacement, and renewal in the aftermath of war. ...

Opera Orlando will present Silent Night at Steinmetz Hall as part of its 10th anniversary season. The Pulitzer Prize–winning opera will star Orlando native Julia Radosz alongside returning company artists. ...

The Dallas Opera will present a slate of winter and spring programming from February through May 2026 across Dallas and North Texas. The schedule will include two mainstage operas, family-friendly productions, free community events, and the annual National Vocal Competition....

Mannes Opera will present the U.S. premiere of The Silent Serenade, a rarely performed operetta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City. ...

North Carolina Opera's production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly has become the best-selling production in the organization's history, setting a new ticket sales record since the company was founded in 2010....

Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project will present Mono E Mono, a concert of monodramas by leading American composers, at NEC's Jordan Hall. The event features performances by acclaimed vocalists under the baton of Gil Rose....

OPERA America has provided grants totaling $190,000 to nine opera companies through its NYC Opera Grants: Support for Small-Budget Organizations program....

Piedmont Opera has named Joseph Mechavich as its new General Director as the company approaches its 50th anniversary. The conductor and artistic leader previously served as Interim Artistic Director, overseeing key productions and partnerships....

The NJ Association of Verismo Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at Stockton University's Performing Arts Center. This tragic opera, featuring a duke and a court jester, unfolds this winter. ...