Review: MISS SAIGON at Göteborgs Operan
by Christian Ranke - Oct 21, 2025
For decades, Miss Saigon has occupied contested terrain within the musical theater canon—championed by some as an essential work, scrutinized by others for perpetuating orientalist narratives and reductive stereotypes.
Madison Opera Opens 2025"26 Season with Puccini’s LA BOHÈME
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 9, 2025
Madison Opera launches its 2025–26 season with Puccini’s timeless masterpiece La Bohème, performed November 7 and 9 at Overture Hall. The beloved opera follows the passionate and heartbreaking lives of young artists in Paris, featuring a dynamic new cast and direction by Alison Pogorelc, conducted by John DeMain.
REVIEW: RENT Returns To Sydney with a Large Scale Production for the Joan Sutherland Theatre at the Sydney Opera House.
by Jade Kops - Oct 3, 2025
Director Shaun Rennie delivers his third imagining of RENT, this time in his biggest staging of the musical to date in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of Sydney Opera House. 32 years after Jonathan Larson’s (Music, Book, Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was first presented as a workshop production in the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop in 1993, almost 30 years after it’s Broadway debeut at the Nederlander Theatre in 1996, and 27 years after it’s Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1998, the “rock opera” retains a relevance.
Opera Carolina Will Host A NIGHT TO REMEMBER
by Stephi Wild - Oct 2, 2025
This fall, step into a world of passion, sacrifice, and unforgettable music as A Night To Remember returns to the prestigious Belk Theater. Learn more about the performance here!
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…
THE MAGIC FLUTE and More Set for Opera Carolina 2025-26 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 11, 2025
Opera Carolina - the largest professional opera company in the Carolinas - has revealed programming for its upcoming 76th season with an ambitious lineup of grand operas, special concerts, philanthropic events, and community initiatives.
GIANNI SCHICCHI EN CONCIERTO Comes to Gran Teatro Nacional
by Stephi Wild - Aug 7, 2025
En el marco de la segunda edición del Festival Internacional de Ópera Juvenil, la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil Bicentenario presenta la obra “Gianni Schicchi” de Giacomo Puccini en formato concierto.
TOSCA Comes to the Dutch National Opera
by Stephi Wild - Jul 28, 2025
Tosca comes to the Dutch National Opera in September. Love, power and betrayal take centre stage in Tosca, a psychological thriller by Giacomo Puccini.
Arthur Bosarge Named Artistic Administrator At Sarasota Opera
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 23, 2025
Sarasota Opera has appointed Arthur Bosarge as its new Artistic Administrator. Bosarge has been a key member of the company's music staff since 2022, most recently serving as Chorus Master and Director of the Apprentice Artists Program.
Double Bill Opera at São Paulo’s Theatro Municipal Highlights Puccini and Strauss’s Reflection on War
by Claudio Erlichman - Jul 16, 2025
With direction by André Heller-Lopes and musical direction by Priscila Bomfim, this production brings together Italian composer Giacomo Puccini and German composer Richard Strauss. This time, we will be presenting Strauss's opera Friedenstag (Day of Peace) for the first time in Latin America. Alongside it, another rarity: Le Villi (The Fairies), Puccini's first opera, forming an exclusive double bill featuring two one-act operas.