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Aspen Music Festival's Summer Lineup Includes Patti LuPone Concert, World Premiere, & More
by Josh Sharpe - Mar 26, 2025

This summer, vocal music takes center stage at the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS). The 2025 festival will present the staged world premiere of Siddhartha, She, a recital from Patti LuPone, and more.

Photos: MADAMA BUTTERFLY At Pittsburgh Opera
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 25, 2025

Check out photos from Madama Butterfly at Pittsburgh Opera. In this groundbreaking new production created by an all Japanese and Japanese American creative team, Madama Butterfly’s story is transported to a fantastical realm where reality and dreams intersect.

Aspen Music Festival & School Announces 2025 Season: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 20, 2025

The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) will celebrate 76 years of performance and mentorship this summer with almost 200 public events.

Utah Opera Reveals 2024-25 Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Mar 13, 2024

In Utah Opera's 2024-25 season, four distinct productions will be held at Salt Lake City’s Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.  Learn more about the full season lineup here!

The 2024 George London Award Winners Have Been Announced
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 17, 2024

The 2024 George London Award winners have been announced, including soprano Katerina Burton, mezzo-sopranos Emily Treigle and Erin Wagner, tenor Samuel White, and baritones Benjamin Dickerson and Darren Drone.

Parnassus Society Brings Opera To Soka Performing Arts Center This Month
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 15, 2023

Parnassus Society will present Amour Fatal: La Traviata and Carmen at Soka Performing Arts Center on April 22, 2023, at 3PM, featuring favorite highlights of two passionate operas sparkling with beauty and drama.

Cincinnati Opera Announces Updated 2023 Summer Festival Schedule and Casting
by Blair Ingenthron - Feb 18, 2023

Cincinnati Opera announces updated schedule and cast information for the company's 2023 Summer Festival, taking place June 11–July 29, 2023.

Review: CARMEN, London Coliseum
by Alexander Cohen - Feb 2, 2023

The production's grim emphasis on male violence towards women gives it an eerie resonance.

The ENO's Acclaimed Production of CARMEN Returns to the London Coliseum Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jan 4, 2023

The English National Opera's (ENO) spring season opens this February with the return of Calixto Bieito's fiery Carmen to the London Coliseum. Its third revival since it was first staged in 2012, this is one of the most popular operas ever written, featuring Bizet's instantly recognisable searing score. 

Cincinnati Opera Announces 2023 Summer Festival
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 20, 2022

Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera, has announced details for the company's 2023 Summer Festival. The season takes place June–July 2023 and features four productions: a romantic thriller, a touching and timely premiere, an effervescent comedy, and an innovative new vision of an operatic classic.

Opera Colorado 2020-21 Season Postponed and New Programming Initiative Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2020

In light of restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, Opera  Colorado will postpone its 2020-21 Season, previously programmed as Cavalleria Rusticana in February,  Carmen in May, and The Shining in June.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Announces 2020-21 Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Apr 8, 2020

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has announced its 2020-21 lineup!

Cast & Creative Team Announced For World Premiere Of ORFEUS: A House Music Opera at the Young Vic
by Stephi Wild - Feb 13, 2020

MasterVoices to Perform New York Premiere of Jeremy Schonfeld's Rock-Opera IRON & COAL
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2019

MasterVoices, led by Artistic Director Ted Sperling, continues its 2019-20 season on January 10 and 11 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College of Criminal Justice with the New York premiere of Iron & Coal, Jeremy Schonfeld's multimedia rock-opera about his family's experience in the Holocaust and its aftermath. Along with MasterVoices, joining Schonfeld onstage will be distinguished theater artist Rinde Eckert, tenor Daniel Rowan, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the New York-based contemporary music ensemble, Contemporaneous.

Conductor Gemma New to Make Four Orchestral Debuts in 30 Days this Summer
by Rebecca Russo - Jun 26, 2019

The fast-rising New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New will be making her debut with four different U.S. orchestras this Summer, beginning with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra June 27, where she will be conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin', as well as Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3.

Cincinnati Opera Announces Summer Programs
by Julie Musbach - Jun 19, 2019

Each year, Cincinnati Opera presents a diverse series of informative and entertaining Opera Raps lectures in the months leading up to, and during, the summer performance season.

Cush Jumbo Plays Hamlet & More In Young Vic's 2020 Programme
by Marianka Swain - May 29, 2019

Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah has announced the Programme for 2020.

Young People's Chorus Opens Its Fourth Decade with 'Listen to the Music' Gala
by Julie Musbach - Feb 26, 2019

Young People's Chorus of New York City, under the direction of Artistic Director/Founder Francisco J. Nuñez, marks the start of their fourth decade with "Listen to the Music," a non-stop, high energy Gala Evening on Tuesday, March 12, at Jazz at Lincoln Center.  It opens at 7 p.m. with YPC's award-winning choristers and special guest artists Ashley Brown and Nmon Ford in a musically diverse program, highlighted by the sounds of "The Seventies" and continues with dinner in the Mandarin Oriental.  

The Atlanta Opera Announces 2019-20 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 15, 2019

"Dangerous liaisons" is the overarching theme of The Atlanta Opera's landmark 40th anniversary season. From Puccini's Cio-Cio San to Rodriguez's Frida Kahlo, most of the featured protagonists share a propensity for self-destructive relationships that threaten to bring about their downfall.

MasterVoices Presents NIGHT SONGS AND LOVE WALTZES
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 29, 2019

MasterVoices, led by its Artistic Director Ted Sperling, presents Night Songs and Love Waltzes, an evening of vocal and piano works on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 8:00 PM at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. The ensemble's second concert of the 2018-2019 season will feature MasterVoices' 120 singers in a program including Johannes Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and songs by other Romantic-era composers, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Franz Schubert; Ricky Ian Gordon's Life Is Love, set to poems by Langston Hughes (new arrangements and a world premiere commissioned by MasterVoices); and the New York premiere of Ted Sperling's Night Waltzes, his arrangements of selections from Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.