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Review: TOSCA, Starring Anna Netrebko, Royal Ballet and Opera
by Gary Naylor - Sep 12, 2025

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma piling up as the emotional heft becomes all but unbearable. There’s no standing about for twenty minutes while someone sings stage left, no mythical dwarves hiding gold, no magical toymaker. Nor, as early critics were quick to point out, is there a whole lot of poetry either in Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s sensational play. However, there are compensations…

Video: Antony and Cleopatra at THE METROPOLITAN OPERA
by Joshua Wright - May 14, 2025

Get a first look at the Metropolitan Opera's Antony and Cleopatra, which comes to NYC following runs at San Francisco Opera and the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The Met Opera production includes seven performances conducted by the composer himself in the original production by Elkhanah Pulitzer.

The BBC Proms Reveals Lineup For 2025 Edition
by Stephi Wild - Apr 24, 2025

The BBC Proms has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The BBC Proms will present an eight-week celebration of  music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom  in almost half a century and more than 80 solo debuts.

Works & Process Will Host The Metropolitan Opera: John Adams' ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
by Stephi Wild - Mar 25, 2025

Works & Process will present The Metropolitan Opera: John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. Learn more about the event here!

John Adams' ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA is Coming to The Met
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 24, 2025

The Metropolitan Opera will present John Adams's 2022 Shakespearean opera Antony and Cleopatra, following runs at San Francisco Opera and the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Learn more!

Lise Davidsen Recording Of Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer Out This April
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 22, 2025

Decca Classics has announced Der fliegende Holländer, the first full-length opera recording on the label from Lise Davidsen. Set for release on April 18, 2025, this recording was captured live over two spectacular nights at the opera house in Oslo during the summer of 2024.

Review: FESTEN, Royal Ballet And Opera
by Alexander Cohen - Feb 12, 2025

Mark-Anthony Turnage has a provocative habit of turning unconventional narratives into opera

92NY to Present Ian Bostridge, Tenor & Julius Drake, Piano
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 6, 2025

The 92nd Street Y will present Ian Bostridge, tenor & Julius Drake, piano in March. In one of the great vocal events of the season, world-renowned tenor Ian Bostridge performs Schubert's brooding masterpiece Winterreise. Learn more!

World Premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's FESTEN Comes to The Royal Opera
by Stephi Wild - Dec 10, 2024

Acclaimed contemporary composer Mark-Anthony Turnage will join forces with Olivier Award-winning director Richard Jones in the world premiere of Festen.

The Grange Festival Reveals 2025 Programme
by Stephi Wild - Oct 8, 2024

For its first season under the leadership of new Chief Executive Tyler Stoops, The Grange Festival has announced the programme for summer 2025.

JANIE DEE'S BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF CABARET Will Come to London and More
by Stephi Wild - Sep 12, 2024

Hot on the stiletto heels of her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, two-time Olivier and multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed British actress, singer and musical theatre star, Janie Dee will perform a series of autumn dates for Janie Dee's Beautiful World Of Cabaret - a playfully informative and inspirational musical journey into humanity and nature, that is, at its heart, always hopeful.

Finalists Revealed For International Opera Awards 2024
by Stephi Wild - Sep 3, 2024

The International Opera Awards havea nnounced the shortlist for this year’s Awards, set to take place at the Bayerische Staatsoper’sPrinzregententheater in Munich on Wednesday 2 October.

Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason Makes Solo Baltimore Recital Debut At Shriver Hall
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 23, 2024

Shriver Hall Concert Series kicks off its 2024-25 and 59th concert season with acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in her solo Baltimore Recital Debut on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 5:30pm.

Review: COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Royal Opera House
by Franco Milazzo - Jul 8, 2024

Has opera found its own Ivo van Hove? Jan Philipp Gloger’s radical production of Così fan tutte continues until 10 July.

National Opera Studio Reveals its Young Artists for 2024/25
by Stephi Wild - Jun 18, 2024

The UK’s foremost opera training organisation, the National Opera Studio (NOS), has announced the new cohort of singers and repetiteurs for its flagship Young Artists Programme for the 2024/25 season.

Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE Returns To The Royal Opera House
by Stephi Wild - Jun 5, 2024

International soprano Golda Schultz will make her much anticipated Royal Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Jan Philipp Gloger's witty production of Mozart's Così fan tutte, which will return from Wednesday 26 June – Wednesday 10 July 2024.  

GROUNDED by Jeanine Tesori to Open The Metropolitan Opera's 2024�"25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

Esa-Pekka Salonen To Conduct SF Symphony In Three Programs At Davies Symphony Hall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 31, 2024

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts SF Symphony in three programs at Davies Symphony Hall in February and March 2024.

Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists Announce Canadian Debut
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 14, 2023

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists make their Canadian debut with a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor. This pinnacle of choral and Western music will showcase the virtuosity, pathos, and joy of the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists. Get all the details here!

National Opera Studio Expands Offering and Welcomes New Cohort Of Young Artists For 2023/24
by Stephi Wild - Oct 10, 2023

The UK's foremost opera training institution, the National Opera Studio (NOS), this week welcomes a new cohort of Young Artists from all over the world to its flagship Global Talent Programme. Learn more about the cohort here!