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San Francisco Opera Guild Honors Maria Manetti Shrem at AN EVENING ON THE STAGE Gala
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 2, 2025

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.

Houston Grand Opera to Present PEACE IN THE TRENCHES: THE STORY BEHIND SILENT NIGHT
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 24, 2025

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.

Review: Nothing Rusticana about the Met’s Premiere KAVALIER from Bates and Sheer
by Richard Sasanow - Sep 22, 2025

Anyone familiar with Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prizer-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY must be a bit bewildered at how a 700-page novel could be turned into a 3-hour opera. Or, for that matter, how a superhero named “The Escapist” could be sharing a stage this week with Puccini’s Turandot and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.

Video: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY In Rehearsal
by Joshua Wright - Sep 4, 2025

Rehearsals are underway for the Met premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel. Get a first look at the cast in rehearsal in this all-new video.

The Dallas Opera Broadcasts 2024/2025 Season on WRR’s Concert Hall Program
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 19, 2025

The Dallas Opera will broadcast its 2024/2025 Season on WRR 101.1 FM’s Concert Hall program beginning August 25. Productions include La traviata, Pelléas et Mélisande, Orpheus and Eurydice, and La bohème, featuring international artists and Music Director Emmanuel Villaume.

Review: DIE FLEDERMAUS at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
by Steve Callahan - May 27, 2025

For nearly half a century the Opera Theatre of St. Louis has been bringing quite glorious opera to our fair city.  It just opened its semicentennial season with a brilliant and lively production of Die Fledermaus, by Johann Strauss II. 

Interview: Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton Talks Boston Lyric Opera's Production of CAROUSEL
by R. Scott Reedy - Apr 4, 2025

The legend of Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre stems in part from the many pre-Broadway tryouts that have and continue to take place there, including not one but two now-iconic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals, 1943’s “Oklahoma!” – when it was still being called “Away We Go!” – and 1945’s “Carousel.”

Video: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CAROUSEL at Boston Lyric Opera
by Stephi Wild - Apr 4, 2025

A reimagined production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel is now playing at Boston Lyric Opera. Check out video clips from the show in the video here!

Photos: RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S CAROUSEL at Boston Lyric Opera
by Stephi Wild - Apr 4, 2025

A reimagined production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel is now playing at Boston Lyric Opera. Check out photos from the show and learn more about it here!

Boston Lyric Opera To Present CAROUSEL 80th Anniversary Production
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 19, 2025

Boston Lyric Opera will present an 80th anniversary production of “RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S ‘CAROUSEL,'” directed by BLO Artistic Associate Anne Bogart, conducted by BLO Music Director David Angus, and running April 4-13, 2025 at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis Announces Their 50th Anniversary Festival Season
by James Lindhorst - Jun 11, 2024

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced repertory and celebrations for a landmark 50th season in 2025, celebrating five decades of artistic innovation and discovery since the company’s founding in 1976. The 2025 Festival Season opens on May 24, 2025, with Johann Strauss II’s effervescent Die Fledermaus, which has not been seen at Opera Theatre since 1989. The season continues with the company’s 44th world premiere, This House, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber. Next, Opera Theatre will present an all-new staging of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale — the very first opera that the company ever performed. Britten’s enchanting adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream rounds out the season. In addition to four mainstage productions, Opera Theatre will continue to present the annual young artist showcase, Center Stage. This concert shines a spotlight on the members of OTSL’s highly selective Young Artist Programs, accompanied onstage by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, which has served as OTSL’s Festival Season orchestra since 1978.

Des Moines Metro Opera Reveals Cast Updates for Debussy's PELLEAS & MELISANDE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 22, 2024

Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed cast updates for Debussy's PELLÉAS & MÉLISANDE, featuring new performers in key roles. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Sarah Ruhl's THE SEASONS and More Set For Boston Lyric Opera's 2024-25 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 1, 2024

Sarah Ruhl's The Seasons and more are set for Boston Lyric Opera’s 2024/25 Season! The season will also include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s MITRIDATE, Verdi’s AIDA, a major revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL on its 80th anniversary, and more.

Review: SONGBIRD at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - Mar 12, 2024

There’s an awful lot of death in opera, Timothy O’Leary, the general director of Washington National Opera, lamented on a recent opening night. And those plentiful tragedies are also often further burdened with overbearing scores, turgid storylines, super-large casts and strident if not shrill performances.