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Check out production photos for Opera San José's operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, running February 15 through March 1 at the California Theatre....

Check out video of baritone Luke Sutliff delivering a spirited performance of “Largo al factotum” from Gioachino Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, accompanied by the COC Orchestra under the baton of Daniela Candillari....

Bronx Opera will present two matinee performances of Mozart's opera IDOMENEO on Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 PM, following a successful opening night. Learn more here!...

New Rochelle Opera will present a concert version of Verdi's NABUCCO at The Ursuline School on May 15 and 17, 2026, featuring a cast of renowned vocal artists....

Applications are now open for singers for The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2027/28 Ensemble. Artists from around the world are invited to submit an initial online application, which includes video recordings....

Opera North has announced that tickets for Summerfest 2026 are now on sale. The Season of Epic Journeys will feature LA CENERENTOLA, THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE, and FIDDLER ON THE ROOF....

After celebrating the 2026 centennial of the Sarasota Opera House during its current season, Sarasota Opera has revealed the five mainstage productions of its 2026-27 season....

Following a storied career on the operatic stages across the country, acclaimed mezzo soprano Dency Graves is entering the next phase of her career. For the PBS culture series CANVAS, arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown caught up with the performer ahead of her retirement. Watch the segment now....

Opera Atelier will present its 2026/27 season, themed 'A Season of Heroes', showcasing a series of productions centered around legendary heroic figures in opera....

Bronx Opera will stage Mozart's opera IDOMENEO, performed in English, from February 12-15. The production offers a unique opportunity to experience one of Mozart's key works in a local setting....

The Dallas Opera’s Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO Ian Derrer will not renew his contract when it concludes at the end of this fiscal year. Ian Derrer’s tenure at TDO spans ten years....

Lamb of God, the dramatic concert work by composer Rob Gardner, will be presented for one-night-only at the Metropolitan Opera House, featuring Jessie Mueller, Joy Woods and more. ...

Sarasota Opera will present a special Opera Lovers Weeks during its 2026 Winter Festival, allowing attendees to experience four operas in just three days....

The Opera Buffs will present nine rising opera singers in a program of contemporary mini-operas at Sierra Madre Playhouse. The performances feature short works by multiple composers and librettists, staged in an intimate setting....

Odyssey Opera, in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, will present Gian Carlo Menotti's comic opera THE LAST SAVAGE at the Huntington Theatre on March 13, 2026. This semi-staged production, conducted by Gil Rose, features a cast of internationally recognized artists and promises ...

The Merola Opera Program is inviting guests to an evening of Italian splendor at its 2026 Benefit Gala, La Bella Voce: A Night of Merola at the San Francisco City Club....

De Nationale Opera will present the Opera Forward Festival from March 6-15, 2026, marking its 10th anniversary with a series of innovative performances....

​​​​​​​MN Opera's world premiere of the new opera, My Name is Florence, recently wrapped up its run but we were lucky enough to catch up with the director prior to the closure for a quick chat. What follows that conversation....

One of the world’s most beloved operas, La Bohème, is coming to cinemas on 3rd March 2026, reimagined for modern-day London in a new adaptation from writer and director Robin Norton-Hale....

Phelim McDermott directing Così fan tutte is a bit like asking a Catholic priest to do Mass in full drag. You know something deliciously outrageous is going to happen. You also know, whether people will like it or not, that it might be exactly what this masterpiece out of step with modern attitudes...

The Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced that Kathleen Clawson will step down as Artistic Director of Dayton Opera at the conclusion of the 2025–2026 season....

Get a first look at Opera Orlando's production of SILENT NIGHT this weekend for two nights ONLY at the Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts....

Darwin Prakash burst onto the opera scene in 2019, when he made his professional debut in the chorus at Glyndebourne. Five years before that, he didn’t read music and had no formal singing training. The Indian baritone discusses his meteoric career trajectory and singing the role of Guglielmo in E...

English National Opera has released new production photos of COSÌ FAN TUTTE at the London Coliseum in a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera. The production is directed by Phelim McDermott and conducted by Dinis Sousa....

 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....