Vincenzo Bellini

Palm Beach Opera has announced the world-class cast for its 2024 Season, which features Puccini’s “Tosca,” Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffman,” and for the first time in 15 years, Bellini’s “Norma,” all beginning in January next year. Learn more about the cast and the full season here!

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), en colaboración con el Sistema de Teatros de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México, presentan el concierto El Estudio de la Ópera de Bellas Artes canta con orgullo. 

Na unaniem lovende recensies en een nominatie voor de Nederlandse Toneelprijs komt deze innemende toneelvoorstelling terug. Na een periode van tien jaar keert Pia Douwes terug naar het podium om wederom gestalte te geven aan de legendarische operazangeres Maria Callas. Het bekroonde toneelstuk van de Amerikaanse succesauteur Terrence McNally, dat op Broadway al voor veel opschudding zorgde, brengt op indrukwekkende wijze het boeiende levensverhaal van deze beroemde zangeres tot leven. Masterclass is vanaf mei 2024 te zien.  

If you missed out on Cape Town Opera and Pieter Toerien's sold-out production of Terrence McNally's Master Class, you'll be delighted to learn that the acclaimed production returns to Theatre on the Bay from 26 to 30  September 2023 by popular demand. 

Palm Beach Opera is excited to announce the planned repertoire for its 2024 Season, which will feature Puccini's “Tosca,” Offenbach's “The Tales of Hoffman,” and for the first time in 15 years, Bellini's “Norma,” all beginning in January next year.

La Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera (CNMO) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) dará inicio este 4 de marzo al ciclo Los colores de la voz, el cual se realiza desde 2018 y que fue creado con la intención de brindar al público la oportunidad de disfrutar importantes obras del repertorio vocal internacional. 

You’ve got to admit that the Met had a lot of guts to dedicate this season’s performances of Vincenzo Bellini’s NORMA (libretto by Felice Romani) to the memory of Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Hers was simply one of the most legendary portrayals of the role, by a fabled singer. Period. But Yoncheva--and her costars--pulled off the performance with aplomb and made the Met audience very happy indeed.

New York Festival of Song, led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, will continue its 2022-2023 season with Amor on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 8:00pm at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center.

The A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special gala concert featuring Fletcher alumni, current Fellows, the UNCSA Cantata Singers, and the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in a program of selections from operatic favorites including “Don Giovanni,” “La cenerentola,” “L'elisir d'amore” and “Eugene Onegin.”

I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera by V. Bellini, will be performed in April at Theatro Sao Pedro. With libretto by Felice Romani, the opera is not based on Shakespeare's famous text. Staged by Antonio Araujo and musical direction by Alessandro Sangiorgi, the cast includes singers Denise de Freitas (Romeo) and Carla Cottini (Giullietta).

Lawrence Brownlee est l’un des plus brillants belcantistes de notre temps. Sa virtuosité légendaire et la beauté lumineuse de sa voix l’ont fait triompher dans Rossini, Bellini et Donizetti. Aujourd’hui il tend la main à un tout jeune artiste lui même d’une virtuosité éblouissante, le ténor sud-africain Levy Segkapane. Amateur de folies vocales, ne manquez pas ce rendez-vous rare !

Theatro Sao Pedro announces its 2022 season. The lyrical series will include eleven titles: La Serva Padrona; Livietta and Tracollo; The Capulets and the Montechios, by Bellini; West Side Story; Lecture on Waterbirds; Threepenny Opera, by Weill; Ariadne in Naxos, by Strauss; Viva La Mamma, by Donizetti and El Barberillo de Lavapies, among others.

For Vincenzo Bellini, a good libretto is one that contains ‘thrilling situations’ and verses that ‘portray the passions in the most vivid way’. That aesthetic shines through in his masterpiece, Norma, the eighth of the ten operas he composed during his short life, which is now one of the most popular in the bel canto repertoire.

Few operas are as ‘operatic’ as Norma. From the first note to the final chord, Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto classic is a heart-rending work with fiery music, but La Monnaie’s latest production also has a surprisingly topical political dimension. La Monnaie is offering everyone aged under 30 the chance to attend the pre-dress rehearsal of this end-of-year show. You will be allocated a first or second category seat (no choice) for just 10 euros!

Wexford Festival Opera, RTE and ARTE have joined forces once again to bring a taste of Wexford to audiences at home wherever they may be. The 70th Wexford Festival Opera 'Shakespeare in the Heart' will run from 19 – 31 October.

San Francisco Opera presents a one-night-only celebration, Live and In Concert: The Homecoming, on Friday, September 10 at 7 pm. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim, now in her first season as leader of San Francisco Opera's artistic forces, leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and soloists Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton in this festive overture to the Company's 99th Season.

Following the change in government guidelines re live performances, Wexford Festival Opera today announced that they can now welcome increased audiences this October for the much anticipated 70th Anniversary Festival.

The acclaimed Merola Opera Program continues its summer season with Back Home: Through the Stage Door, a thrilling new digital production.

Washington Concert Opera has announced the official premiere of their digital production of Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani.

Today, Artistic Director Rosetta Cucchi announced details of the 2021 WFO programme, celebrating Wexford's 70th anniversary, which looks forward to welcoming live audiences back into the National Opera House, to experience in person the magic that is Wexford Festival Opera.