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Wagner's DAS RHEINGOLD and More Set for San Francisco Opera 2026-27 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 4, 2026

San Francisco Opera will present a dynamic 2026-27 season, featuring a mix of classic operas and new productions. Highlights include premieres and revivals at the iconic War Memorial Opera House.

Review: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, London Coliseum
by Michael Higgs - Dec 3, 2024

Sarah Tipple brings the comedic opera to life with gloriously ridiculous period costumes, an outstanding cast and an abstract set that mirrors the plot’s absurdism with precision.

Review: THE HANDMAID'S TALE, English National Opera, London Coliseum
by Gary Naylor - Feb 2, 2024

Paul Ruder's opera, based on Margaret Atwood's celebrated novel, has, frighteningly, gained more relevance since its premiere in 2000

Juliet Stevenson Joins the ENO's THE HANDMAID'S TALE
by Stephi Wild - Jan 17, 2024

This February, multi award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson makes a highly anticipated return to the West End in the English National Opera’s (ENO) acclaimed operatic adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale.

THE HANDMAID'S TALE Returns to the ENO in February
by Stephi Wild - Jan 4, 2024

The Handmaid’s Tale opera will return to the ENO in a highly anticipated production. Read more about the upcoming show including how to get tickets, and all about the new arrival.

The Met to Kick Off The Holiday Season With Julie Taymor's Family-Friendly Production Of THE MAGIC FLUTE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2023

The Met kicks off the holiday season with Julie Taymor’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Notable company role debuts and the annual Holiday Open House make this a must-see event for all ages.

The ENO Presents New Production of Wagner's THE RHINEGOLD
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jan 12, 2023

This February comes The Rhinegold, the first opera in Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle, a radical political satire entrenched in magic and mythology.

Alex Jennings Joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Schoenberg's GURRELIEDER
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Sep 21, 2022

Actor Alex Jennings will join the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) for the opening night of its 2022/23 season on Saturday 24 September when they perform Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.

BWW Review: Stravinsky's RAKE Progresses Briefly at the Met
by Richard Sasanow - Jun 6, 2022

While I was watching the Met’s current beautiful yet somehow languid production of the Igor Stravinsky and WH Auden/Chester Kallman opera THE RAKE’S PROGRESS the other night--with only two more performances until it goes back into mothballs for probably many years--I couldn’t help wishing that the opera house was more like Broadway.

Stravinsky's THE RAKE'S PROGRESS to be Presented at The Metropolitan Opera
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 25, 2022

Stravinsky’s neoclassical masterpiece The Rake’s Progress, one of the 20th century’s great operas, will return to the Met stage for four performances May 30–June 11.

Metropolitan Opera Announces a Cast Change For THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
by Stephi Wild - May 3, 2022

Raehann Bryce-Davis will sing Baba the Turk in the May and June performances of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, replacing Alice Coote.

ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR Begins November 2 on Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Nov 4, 2021

This evening our online show is Los Angeles Opera’s La Traviata from 2006 with: Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson, Suzanna Guzmán, Anna Akhimova, Daniel Montenegro, Philip Kraus, James Creswell, Sal Malaki, and Mark Kelley. James Conlon conducts the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. The stage director is Marta Domingo. Brian Large directs it for TV.

BWW Review: SAN FRANCISCO OPERA'S FIDELIO ONLINE at War Memorial Opera House
by Maria Nockin - Oct 16, 2021

On October 14, 2021, San Francisco Opera presented Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, in a well-thought-out production with an outstanding cast. Matthew Ozawa directed the action in a prison of the current era. There, Leonore, a prisoner’s wife disguises herself as a male worker and rescues her husband from unjust incarceration.

San Francisco Opera Presents New Production of Beethoven's FIDELIO
by Stephi Wild - Sep 18, 2021

Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and cast in this monumental work in which love and courage overcome tyranny. Director Matthew Ozawa’s interpretation of the work updates its original eighteenth-century prison setting to a modern government detention center.

BWW Feature: Streaming Opera For The Week Of September 13 - 20, 2021
by Maria Nockin - Sep 13, 2021

Los Angeles Opera presents its 2006 rendition of La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi. The performers are Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, and Renato Bruson, James Conlon conducts and Marta Domingo directs.LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZywmSJkKYE&t=83s

San Francisco Opera Announces 2021�"22 Season Including Repertory, Casting and Reopening Plans for 99th Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 22, 2021

San Francisco Opera announced today repertory, casting and reopening plans for its 99th season. Commencing with a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca on Saturday, August 21, the 2021–22 Season marks the inauguration of Eun Sun Kim’s tenure as Caroline H. Hume Music Director and a reemergence of opera at the War Memorial Opera House.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - May 15, 2021

For her Los Angeles Opera Signature Recital, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, accompanied by Jeremy Frank, sings a collection of her favorite songs. They perform works  by 20th-century composer Kurt Weill, including 'Lonely House,' 'I'm a Stranger Here Myself,” and 'September Song.” LAO will stream the recital until July 1, 2021

VIDEO: Listen To LA Opera's BILLY BUDD 'From The Vault'
by Alan Henry - Apr 30, 2021

Set sail on an audio-fueled journey into our 2014 production of 'Billy Budd.' Brace yourself for stormy seas and emotional swells as you endeavor through the story of the H.M.S. Indomitable and its crew. 

San Francisco Opera Present January 2021 Free Opera Streams and Department Of Diversity, Equity And Community Offerings
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 17, 2020

Full-length free opera streams continue in January with three titles that were simulcast previously from the War Memorial Opera House to the stadium of the San Francisco Giants.