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Opera Atelier Celebrates 40th Year With Two Productions
by Stephi Wild - Feb 5, 2025

Opera Atelier will celebrate its landmark 40th year with two significant productions: the company’s production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and the world premiere of Debussy’s surrealist opera, Pelléas.

LA REINE-GARÇON Begins In January At the Four Seasons Centre
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 6, 2024

The first-ever co-commission between the Canadian Opera Company and Opéra de Montréal, La Reine-garçon is a stunning new Canadian-led opera from acclaimed composer Julien Bilodeau and award-winning librettist Michel Marc Bouchard that dives into the life of one of history's most fascinating royals.

San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2025 Adler Fellows
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 16, 2024

The San Francisco Opera Center has announced the 2025 Adler Fellows, highlighting emerging artists in opera.

The Toronto Consort Unveils New Leadership & 2024-25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 25, 2024

The Toronto Consort has appointed Daniel Taylor, O.C. as the company's new General and Artistic Director, Dame Emma Kirkby as the Consort's first-ever Honorary Patron, and the launch of the Consort's 2024-2025 Season. Learn more about the additions to the Consort!

Orchestra Of St. Luke's Celebrates 50th Anniversary In 2024-25
by Stephi Wild - Sep 10, 2024

Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) will celebrate its 50th anniversary with an ambitious 2024-25 season featuring 13 performances at Carnegie Hall, including a series in each of Carnegie’s three halls, and innovative presentations of contemporary music and world premieres both at the orchestra’s home, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and with partners in all five boroughs.

Five New Productions Announced For Canadian Opera Company's 2024/2025 Season
by Joshua Wright - Feb 22, 2024

The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2024/2025 season with exciting programming comprised almost entirely of new-to-Toronto productions including the first-ever COC staging of Verdi’s Nabucco, the world premiere of a new production of Gounod’s Faust, and the Toronto premiere of La Reine-garçon, a new creation from Canadians Julien Bilodeau and Michel Marc Bouchard.

Mozart and More Set for Tafelmusik 2024/25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2024

Tafelmusik has revealed the details of its 2024/25 season. Learn what to expect from the programs and see how to purchase tickets.

Opus 3 Artists Integrates Magnum Opus Artists' Roster of Over 40 Artists
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 28, 2023

Opus 3 Artists announces the integration of Magnum Opus Artists' roster of over 40 artists, expanding its vocal department. Founder Nathan Wentworth joins Opus 3 Artists as Senior Vice President of the Vocal Department. Caroline Woodfield will transition to a consultant role.

San Francisco Opera Center Announces The 2024 Adler Fellows
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 5, 2023

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam announced today the 11 recipients of the 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship.

Musica Sacra, New York's Elite Professional Chorus, Announces Its 2022-23 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 17, 2022

The 2022-23 season of Musica Sacra, New York's elite professional chorus led by Music Director Kent Tritle, brings music by women composers to the fore in two programs at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine of repertoire spanning five centuries.

BWW Review: ST. MATTHEW PASSION at Carnegie Hall
by George Weinhouse - May 17, 2022

Bernard Labadie led a transcendent performance of Bach's ST.MATTHEW PASSION at Carnegie Hall.

Wiener Staatsoper Announces Streaming Schedule For This Week
by Stephi Wild - Dec 7, 2021

Wiener Staatsoper has announced its schedule of streaming productions for this week. Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale from 2015, with Michele Pertusi, Valentina Naforniţă and Juan Diego Flórez and conducted by Jesús López Cobos will be streamed December 7 and 10.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Aug 14, 2021

Raehann Bryce-Davis’s Brown Sounds is a joyous celebration of  Black art, Black bodies, and Black consciousness that we watch on our way to the Bay Area. Bryce-Davis is currently singing Verdi and Wagner at Glimmerglass.

BWW Feature: Virtual Opera Streaming 21-28 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Apr 23, 2021

On Wednesday, April 21, We begin this week’s tour with one of the Los Angeles Opera website’s most popular “Living Room Recitals.” Soprano, Latonia Moore sings with pianist Roberto Berrocal. After the recital, we leave for NYC. On arrival, we go to Shut Up and Eat, a most generous Toms River restaurant that offers a discount to patrons in pajamas. 

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No. 45 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Feb 13, 2021

In April, 2019, Pacific Opera Project performed Puccini’s Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English at the Aratani Theatre, part of the Japanese-American Cultural Center of Los Angeles’s “Little Tokyo. With a new libretto by Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura. See the film in which ll Japanese roles were sung in Japanese, English roles in English.

BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR No. 44 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Feb 6, 2021

In celebration of Valentine's Day, on Saturday, February 13, at 5:00 P.M. PST, Russell Thomas, Los Angeles Opera’s new Artist in Residence, welcomes Ashley Faatoalia, Tiffany Townsend, Alaysha Fox and pianist Leonard Hayes to the On Now digital stage for the first episode in its After Hours series, 'Black Love.” Enjoy sweet renditions of works by composers such as H.T. Burleigh, Undine Smith Moore, and Margaret Bonds.

San Francisco Opera Announces January/February Schedule of Free Streams
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 26, 2021

San Francisco Opera’s weekly, free opera streams continue in February with Wagner’s Lohengrin (February 6–7), Mozart’s Così fan tutte (February 13–14), Puccini’s La Rondine (February 20–21) and Verdi’s Falstaff (February 27–28).

'Opera Is ON' Streaming Performances From San Francisco Opera Continue In October
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 2, 2020

San Francisco Opera continues streaming performances with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca on October 10a?"11, Giuseppe Verdi's Attila on October 17a?"18 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) on October 24a?"25.

Tafelmusik Announces Reimagined Fall Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 19, 2020

Following months of upheaval caused by the global pandemic, Tafelmusik has unveiled its reimagined Fall season, a series of online concerts and events that spring from a process of reinvention and adaptation led by Music Director Elisa Citterio and Executive Director Carol Kehoe.

BWW Review: Paris Opera Gives Us a Look at the Met's New DON GIOVANNI from the Palais Garnier
by Richard Sasanow - Mar 29, 2020

Thanks to the French online service, France.tv, opera-goers in New York have had a chance to see what lies ahead with the new production of Mozart's DON GIOVANNI by Ivo van Hove, that, health crisis be willing, will make its debut at the Met next March.