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OPERA America has given grants totaling $165,000 to seven opera companies through its Next Stage Grants program. Next Stage Grants support subsequent productions of existing, under-performed North American works that deserve additional attention....

Check out production photos from the world premiere of San Francisco Opera's The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, running November 14-30 at the War Memorial Opera House....

Opera San José will continue its 42nd season with Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, running November 16–30, 2025 at the California Theatre. See photos of the production....

Carnegie Hall will host the Christmas Night Opera Gala on December 27, 2025, featuring a roster of internationally acclaimed singers in performance with the American Symphony Orchestra. ...

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts held its Fall Gala on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at David Geffen Hall, where it honored Bayo Ogunlesi, co-founder of Global Infrastructure Partners and Treasurer and Vice Chair of Lincoln Center’s Board. Check out photos of the event....

Kentucky Opera has appointed Ben Robinson, an accomplished singer, stage director, and arts executive, as its new General Director and CEO following a national search. ...

For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther Schneider Siemssen, dating back to 1983, will be a relief. It features a return to “old Vienna,” inclu...

San Francisco Opera has announced plans to present Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in June and July 2028, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and staged by Francesca Zambello....

Houston Grand Opera is inviting the community to gather at Discovery Green for Carols on the Green, the company's annual holiday concert and sing-along combining beloved carols with festive Spanish-language favorites....

Gina Galati’s delightful Winter Opera company has opened its season with a revival of a rarely seen Gilbert and Sullivan show—The Sorcerer.   It premiered in 1877, the first of the grandly popular series of light operas by G & S in which the authors had total control over casting and staging....

Toronto City Opera will launch its 2025 season with Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, a searing tale of love, jealousy, and betrayal. This new production transports audiences to the waning days of the traveling circus in the mid-20th century. ...

Light Opera of New Jersey has revealed Kristin Sampson and Jeremy Brauner as the principal artists who will headline its Holiday Pops Concert at the Ridge Performing Arts Center in Basking Ridge, NJ....

San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown. Its unsavory plot hasn’t kept Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci from becoming one of opera’s most popular creations. The reasons for its success? A can’t-wait-for-it t...

A confession. It’s a guilty pleasure of mine to read the death notices on Wikipedia - I am my mother’s son after all and, without the columns of classifieds in the Liverpool Echo, where else is there to look?...

Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of Antonio Salieri’s Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle December 3–7, 2025, at the Studebaker Theater. Directed by Robin Guarino and conducted by Christine Brandes....

Some of the audience at the chamber concert at the Frick Collection Museum—that jewel-box museum of art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century on New York’s Upper East Side—had fought its way there through the runners of the NYC Marathon. What they found was definitely worth the e...

The Riverside Opera Company will celebrate its 27th season with Opera Uncorked on Saturday, November 8, 2025, at St. Teresa’s Church, Staten Island. The concert will feature winners of recent ROC Opera Auditions performing favorite arias and duets with orchestra....

English National Opera (ENO) will present a new production of Jake Heggie’s opera Dead Man Walking at the London Coliseum, opening November 1, 2025. Check out photos of the production. ...

On behalf of the Board of Directors of OPERA America, Board Chair Lee Anne Myslewski has announced the appointment of Michael J. Bobbitt as OPERA America's new President and CEO. ...

Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and his partner Rachael Hewer eschewed making banana bread during the Covid lockdown and decided to write an opera. After the pandemic, they went on to work on other projects, but unexpectedly Glyndebourne agreed to stage their new work, which made its world premiere l...

It’s hard for a soprano to get a break in Donizetti’s LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, which I caught up with at the Met on Friday evening. Not that Marie—the role of the title, sung at the Met by Erin Morley—doesn’t have some gorgeous music and shenanigans to show off her musical and comic chops in ...

Killer Queen Opera and Gallery Particulier bring immersive opera MADAM to Flatbush, Brooklyn — there will be three performances of the bold new work exploring the life of Madam Polly Adler....

Opera Orlando hosted its first annual Operazzi Bash on October 25 at the Grand Bohemian Orlando, raising more than $80,000 in support of the company’s education programs, including the Opera Orlando Youth Company....

Portland Opera will present Puccini’s La Bohème November 15–23, 2025, at Keller Auditorium. Directed by Cara Consilvio and starring Hope Briggs and Alok Kumar....

Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio returns January 12–18, 2026, for its eighth season, led by Artistic Director Anthony Roth Costanzo. The week-long program includes master classes with Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee, and Bryan Wagorn....

The Metropolitan Opera will revive Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier for six performances beginning November 24, 2025, featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Piotr Beczała in their Met role debuts as Maddalena di Coigny and Andrea Chénier. ...

White Snake Projects will host the third installment of Let's Celebrate!, an annual performance presenting brand-new 20-minute operas that celebrate the diversity of Boston's community. Learn more!...

It’s World Opera Day—an annual event held on October 25—a collaboration between OPERA America, Opera Europa, and Ópera Latinoamérica to showcase the ways opera companies and artists add vigor to their countries, communities and the world....

Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, with an overture and Shakespeare’s explanatory prologue, delivered by the chorus, followed by a five-act opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. ...

Sandra Oh, fresh off her acclaimed performances in Shakespeare in the Park’s Twelfth Night, made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment on October 17. Check out a video clip of her performance below! ...

Washington Concert Opera will open its 2025–26 season with Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 6 p.m. at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC. ...

The Metropolitan Opera will open a revival of Richard Strauss’s Arabella on November 10, 2025, marking soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s role debut in the title part and Tomasz Konieczny’s Met role debut as Mandryka. ...

Seattle Opera announced it will present the world premiere of The Wedding Banquet, a new comic opera by composer Huang Ruo and librettist James Schamus, inspired by Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 film....

Opera San José continues its 42nd season—centered on the theme “What Is Love?”—with Puccini’s tragic masterpiece Madama Butterfly, running November 16–30, 2025, at the California Theatre (345 South First Street, San José). ...

Jean-Georges Philadelphia, in a first-of-its kind collaboration with Opera Philadelphia, will present an exclusive one-night-only immersive dinner. Learn more and see how to join! ...

Celebrated choreographer and director Lynne Hockney has been involved in Sir Peter Hall’s iconic version of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne since 2001. Now playing for the first time in the venue’s Autumn season, the production has been revived regularly since it...

Following its win for “Best Musical Film” at the Cannes World Film Festival earlier this year, composer and librettist John Aylward’s one-act opera film Oblivion has set new performances and screenings this fall in the United States and Italy. ...

The Gerda Lissner Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting and encouraging emerging classical vocalists, has revealed the winners of its 2025 Art Song Competition. Learn more! ...

Sir Peter Hall's iconic production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream has achieved legendary status since its premiere in 1981. In 2025, it has lost none of its magic, with the Glyndebourne audience still wide-eyed at the visual feast on stage....

San Francisco Opera will present the world premiere of The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, running November 14–30, 2025, at the War Memorial Opera House....