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Opera Montana Unveils 2025-26 Season Including RAGTIME Directed By Francesca Zambello
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 28, 2025

Opera Montana - the state's oldest professional opera company -  has revealed its 2025-2026 season, the company's 48th. See the full season and learn how to purchase tickets.

Review: PORGY AND BESS at Kennedy Center
by David Friscic - May 27, 2025

The pivotal and star-crossed main characters and the Catfish Row community come alive in the highly influential, thought-provoking, and engrossing opera Porgy and Bess. This much discussed opera has its partisans and detractors but there is a distinct need to ponder and consider a work of this quality. This Washington National Opera production beautifully melds content and form in this story of a crippled man (Porgy) who must travel the lonely road (“When Gawd make cripple, He means him to be lonely. Night time, day time, He got to travel that lonesome road.”) to find wholeness with the easily gratified yet complex and caring Bess.

Review: AMERICAN RHAPSODY at Kennedy Center
by David Friscic - May 7, 2025

An evening of the myriad modes of music that constitute the American Experience was celebrated at the Kennedy Center’s production of American Rhapsody. The evening was a rich treasure trove of the glory that is American music from opera, spirituals, modern composers, classic songwriters, and Broadway.

Cast Set For THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at Central City Opera
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2025

 Central City Opera has announced the cast and artistic team for its upcoming production of Rossini's beloved comedy, The Barber of Seville. Learn more here!

Music Director James Conlon To Depart LA Opera After 20 Years; 40th Anniversary Season Lineup Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 12, 2025

LA Opera has announced details for the company's 40th anniversary season, which will launch on September 20, 2025. In his 20th season with the company—his final season as Music Director before becoming Conductor Laureate—James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Dalia Stasevska.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE & More Announced For 2025 Glimmerglass Festival
by Joshua Wright - Aug 12, 2024

The Glimmerglass Festival will present a world premiere, two company premieres including Sunday in the Park with George, and a revival of the company’s first commission for young people in its 2025 season.

Interview: Andrew Morstein Makes His Opera Theatre Of St. Louis Debut in THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
by James Lindhorst - Jun 5, 2024

Critics are raving about Opera Theater of St. Louis’ (OTSL) production of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, calling it riotously funny and dazzling with comedic brilliance. Tenor Andrew Morstein is making his OSTL debut and sings the role of Count Almaviva. His comedic performance has been called virtuosic, lyrically beautiful, and vocally acrobatic. Morstein, who is a rising international opera star, sat down with Broadway World to talk about his experience with the Rossini opera, the current production at the Loretto-Hilton Center, and what he is doing with his time in St. Louis.  

Review: THE BARBER OF SEVILLE at Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
by Steve Callahan - May 28, 2024

Spring fever?  If you’ve been made a bit dozy by these warm spring days the new production at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis will, with a bang, hoist you wide awake in all your senses.  Rossini’s The Barber of Seville opened Saturday to an audience that packed the Loretto-Hilton theatre to the rafters.   

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. 

Video: First Look at Ramin Karimloo & Isabel Leonard in Washington National Opera's SONGBIRD
by Joshua Wright - Mar 11, 2024

Check out the new video of Ramin Karimloo's operatic debut in Washington National Opera's Songbird opposite Isabel Leonard, one of America’s leading mezzo-sopranos.

Photos: First Look at Ramin Karimloo & Isabel Leonard in Washington National Opera's SONGBIRD
by Joshua Wright - Mar 8, 2024

BroadwayWorld has a first look at Ramin Karimloo's operatic debut in Washington National Opera's Songbird opposite Isabel Leonard, one of America’s leading mezzo-sopranos. Songbird is a new adaptation of Jacques Offenbach’s operetta La Périchole. 

Ramin Karimloo Will Make Operatic Debut in Washington National Opera's SONGBIRD
by Stephi Wild - Jan 30, 2024

Ramin Karimloo will make his operatic debut in Washington National Opera's Songbird this March. Songbird is a new adaptation of Jacques Offenbach’s operetta La Périchole.

Photos: Inside The World Premiere of ROCK ME AMADEUS - LIVE! in Tampa
by Stephi Wild - Jan 24, 2024

The highly anticipated world premiere of the rock-meets-classical fusion concert experience, Rock Me Amadeus - Live!, came to the stage last Sunday, January 21st, at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, FL. Check out photos here!

ROCK ME AMADEUS - LIVE! to be Presented at David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 4, 2024

The world premiere of Rock Me Amadeus - Live! is set to captivate audiences with its groundbreaking fusion of rock and classical music. Featuring a star-studded cast of vocalists and instrumentalists, this extraordinary concert experience interweaves classic rock anthems with timeless compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, and Puccini.

Review: Oh Goddess, Bellini's NORMA Returns to the Met
by Richard Sasanow - Mar 11, 2023

You’ve got to admit that the Met had a lot of guts to dedicate this season’s performances of Vincenzo Bellini’s NORMA (libretto by Felice Romani) to the memory of Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Hers was simply one of the most legendary portrayals of the role, by a fabled singer. Period. But Yoncheva--and her costars--pulled off the performance with aplomb and made the Met audience very happy indeed.

Portland Opera Opens 2022/23 Season With Bizet's CARMEN
by Stephi Wild - Oct 7, 2022

Portland Opera launches their 2022/23 season this November with a cultural touchstone, Bizet's Carmen. Featuring melodic gems such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song, this new-to-Portland production, originated by Denyce Graves in her directorial debut.

Portland Opera Announces 2022/23 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 19, 2022

 Portland Opera’s 2022/23 season will feature the cultural touchstone Carmen; Thumbprint, a powerful new opera inspired by the story of Mukhtar Mai, a trailblazing Pakistani human rights activist; the company’s first production of the iconic and magical Dvořák opera Rusalka and more.

Lyric Opera Of Chicago To Hold Dance Auditions For FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS By Daniel Catán
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 25, 2021

Lyric Opera of Chicago will hold virtual auditions for solo dancers with significant stage experience for its upcoming production of Florencia en el Amazonas by Daniel Catán. The production will be staged by critically acclaimed director Francesca Zambello with choreography by Eric Sean Fogel. August Tye is the ballet mistress.

The Glimmerglass Festival Announces Plans for Summer 2021
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 1, 2021

The Glimmerglass Festival, the summer opera and musical theater festival in Cooperstown, New York, has announced plans for the summer of 2021 in the wake of its 2020 season cancelation due to COVID-19. The 2021 season will run July 15 through August 17.

BWW Review: Washington National Opera's SAMSON AND DELILAH at the Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - Mar 4, 2020

Bad haircuts can be tragic, but none more so than for Samson, the Biblical figure whose strength was sapped the moment his mullet was gone. The treacherous shearing by a revenge-seeking Delilah launched centuries of retelling, including Camille Saint-Saëns' opera 'Samson and Delilah' which the Washington National Opera is currently presenting at the Kennedy Center in repertoire with 'Don Giovanni.'