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Austin Opera's first production in its new Butler Performance Center will be the October 2026 world premiere of Ofrenda, a 90-minute chamber opera performed in English and Spanish and funded by the Butler Fund for Spanish Programming. ...

The Barber of Seville is an ideal introduction to the opera-going experience. The Barber of Seville runs for eight performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. Learn more!...

Time Capsule Project and Art Couriers International will present The Nutcracker and Marie, a new reimagined adaptation of the holiday classic. The production blends traditional ballet with additional dance styles and includes interactive components for families. ...

We still don’t know what Kurt Cobain did in the days before his suicide in 1994. Gus Van Sant offered one hallucinatory guess in Last Days, refashioned into opera by Oliver Leith and now revived at the Royal Ballet And Opera....

When I read that the Met, in the program notes for James Robinson’s production of PORGY AND BESS, called it “a supremely American operatic masterpiece” I couldn’t help but think of Stephen Sondheim’s answer (perhaps apocryphal) when he was asked whether SWEENEY TODD was an opera or a music...

Teatro Grattacielo has revealed their new 2026 Support Program, including tiered subscriptions, updated giving options, and the new Support a Young Singer initiative....

All new production images have been released from English National Opera’s HMS Pinafore, running through 7 Feb 2026 at the London Coliseum. Check out the photos here! ...

Dynamic artists from around the world perform in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall as part of the Musical Explorers Family Concerts, interactive performances that celebrate unique musical cultures and traditions around the globe....

SMOKE Jazz Club has revealed its line-up to kickstart the New Year starting with the club debut of Joshua Redman leading his Quartet. The month continues with two of today's leading pianists in rare solo and trio performances....

I find myself once again poised to set sail aboard the peerless HMS Pinafore, with our production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s nautical-themed masterpiece opening at the London Coliseum tonight!...

San Francisco Opera Guild honored philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem at its 2025 An Evening on the Stage gala on November 19 at the War Memorial Opera House....

This January, Seattle Opera continues its recent tradition of offering concert presentations of rarely heard operas (Samson and Delilah in Concert '23, Les Troyens in Concert '25) with Richard Strauss's one-act pastoral tragedy, Daphne (1938)....

The Canadian Opera Company will bring Verdi’s RIGOLETTO back to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts this winter. The production will feature baritone Quinn Kelsey in the title role, conducted by COC Music Director Johannes Debus....

Berkshire Opera Festival will introduce a major expansion of programming in 2026 with the launch of its Resident Artist Program alongside three productions: Lucia di Lammermoor, Beauty and the Beast (Zémire et Azor), and Schubert’s Winterreise....

Sarasota Opera has announced that Maestro Victor DeRenzi, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, has decided to leave the company at the end of his current contract in May 2026....

The Metropolitan Opera has released first look videos of their new production of Porgy & Bess. Conducted by Kwamé Ryan, the Gershwins’ great American classic returns to the Met, featuring electrifying choreography by Camille A. Brown. ...

One of the most prestigious opera training programs in the world, San Francisco’s acclaimed Merola Opera Program has selected 28 artists from a pool of more than 1,500 international applicants to participate in its 2026 program....

MassOpera has revealed a new era of collaborative leadership with the appointment of Brenda Huggins and Marcus Schenck as Executive Creative Producers. ...

10 Days in a Madhouse is a bold contemporary opera from innovative American composer Rene Orth and acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch that will make its Canadian premiere in four performances at the Bluma Appel Theatre....

For those of us who like verismo opera—combining the raw emotions of everyday people with historical splendor—but have heard one too many BOHEMEs, TOSCAs, TURANDOTs and BUTTERFLYs in this lifetime, noting Giordano’s ANDREA CHENIER in the Met’s repertoire for this season seemed like a godsend...

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories....

Lyric Opera of Chicago will continue performances of A NIGHT OF MELLON COLLIE AND INFINITE SADNESS, the new operatic and orchestral staging of The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 double album. ...

Houston Grand Opera will host a panel discussion at the Alliance Française Houston, “Peace in the Trenches: The Story Behind Silent Night.” The conversation will reflect upon Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's 2011 opera, Silent Night....

Four-time Grammy Award-winning professional choir, The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, will continue its 2025-2026 Season with three December concerts featuring the world premieres of resident composer Sarah Rimkus' Nativity and more....

Here are all the hallmarks of any good Shakespearean comedy: love polygons, gender trouble and a shipwreck to get things going. However, in Handel’s Partenope there is one crucial difference: everyone here is self-aware....

English National Opera has released new production photos for PARTENOPE, returning to the London Coliseum from 20 November to 6 December 2025. The revival of Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning staging features Nardus Williams in the title role and is conducted by Christian Curnyn....

La bohème. Glyndebourne. Three trumpeters blare out a fanfare as the chorus pours onto stage, ready to deliver the myriad vocal interjections which mark out the beginning of Act 2. But Glyndebourne is No Ordinary Opera, and this is no ordinary scene. On a single musical cue, thirty-six choristers, ...

Houston Grand Opera will launch its winter repertoire on January 23, 2026, with the Houston premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s SILENT NIGHT. Presented in a new co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, the staging marks the first major revision of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work since its...

Teatro Grattacielo has announced its 2026–2027 season, featuring two world premieres and new productions at La MaMa and The Flea. The lineup includes the world staged premiere of Joseph Summer’s THE TEMPEST, and more....

Lyric Opera of Chicago has released new photos from the November 14 performance of Carmina Burana. The production is part of the company’s 2025/26 Season and is conducted by Music Director Enrique Mazzola....

Wagner College Opera will present ECHOES BETWEEN THE LINES, featuring the music of Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini, Berlioz, Sondheim, Lehár and Bernstein. ...

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....