The Philadelphia Orchestra announced its summer 2026 season, including residencies at Highmark Mann Center, Bravo! Vail, and Saratoga Performing Arts Center, plus Kimmel Center performances featuring THE WIZARD OF OZ live-to-film and a free Pride Concert.
The Crossing, the four-time Grammy-winning choir conducted by Donald Nally, will present THE MONTH OF MODERNS, a series of Philadelphia concerts featuring world premieres and works marking 250 years of American Independence.
Philadelphia's Highmark Mann Center announced its 50th anniversary season, featuring more than 50 performances, world premieres, and a $70 million campus transformation coinciding with America250 celebrations.
The Met’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I PURITANI made its debut on New Year’s Eve, but I caught up with it at its third performance on January 6.
For all those operagoers tired of classics set in rodeos, Las Vegas or on a space station (Paris has a BOHEME of that ilk), Otto Schenk’s production for ARABELLA, with stage design by Gunther Schneider Siemssen, dating back to 1983, will be a relief.
Anyone familiar with Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prizer-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY must be a bit bewildered at how a 700-page novel could be turned into a 3-hour opera.
Opera on Tap has announced its upcoming Benefit Concert.
Check out photos from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI at Pittsburgh Opera.
“This is not a cathartic tragedy or a tale of noble sacrifice.
The Met performed the season’s first TALES OF HOFFMANN (LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN), by Jacques Offenbach, with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, also a Sher production, and it was a different story.
National Sawdust will open its momentous 10th anniversary season with the world premiere production of Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek's sensual and poetic new opera Silent Light from September 26-29.
When I first heard Kevin Puts’s gorgeous, melodic score for THE HOURS back in 2022, I was blown away, thinking it was almost too good to be true.
While I’ve admired soprano Nadine Sierra’s before, she seemed to reach a whole new level with her glorious turn as Juliette in the season’s first performance of Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE at the Met the other night.
Get a first look at Puccini’s Madama Butterfly which returns to the Met stage for 16 performances, starting January 11.
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly will return to the Met stage for 16 performances, starting January 11.
The Dallas Opera announces the digital release of No One is Forgotten: An Immersive Opera, its first-ever 3D spatial opera recording, available now for streaming in Dolby Atmos Immersive Audio to subscribers of Apple Music and Tidal and in a stereo mix for non-subscribers.
Soprano Angel Blue’s Violetta didn’t seem as tragic as we’re used to seeing in Verdi’s masterwork and maybe that's right.
The Metropolitan Opera has announced a 2023–24 season with the most new works in the company’s modern history.
I’ve heard the opera a number of times at the Met over the years and this year’s run holds up with the most breathtaking of them.
The American Symphony Orchestra continues its 2022-23 season on January 27 with a program at St.
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