Gerald Finley News

The Royal Ballet and Opera have unveiled their programme of cinema screenings throughout the 2026/27 Season, including beloved favourites, and new productions.

The BBC Proms returns in summer 2026, presenting eight weeks of world-class music from an array of leading orchestras, conductors and soloists from across the UK and around the world.

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma piling up as the emotional heft becomes all but unbearable. There’s no standing about for twenty minutes while someone sings stage left, no mythical dwarves hiding gold, no magical toymaker. Nor, as early critics were quick to point out, is there a whole lot of poetry either in Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s sensational play. However, there are compensations…

Get a first look at the Metropolitan Opera's Antony and Cleopatra, which comes to NYC following runs at San Francisco Opera and the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. The Met Opera production includes seven performances conducted by the composer himself in the original production by Elkhanah Pulitzer.

The BBC Proms has announced the lineup for its 2025 edition. The BBC Proms will present an eight-week celebration of  music featuring over 3,000 artists, the first overnight Prom  in almost half a century and more than 80 solo debuts.

Works & Process will present The Metropolitan Opera: John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater. Learn more about the event here!

Decca Classics has announced Der fliegende Holländer, the first full-length opera recording on the label from Lise Davidsen. Set for release on April 18, 2025, this recording was captured live over two spectacular nights at the opera house in Oslo during the summer of 2024.

Mark-Anthony Turnage has a provocative habit of turning unconventional narratives into opera

The 92nd Street Y will present Ian Bostridge, tenor & Julius Drake, piano in March. In one of the great vocal events of the season, world-renowned tenor Ian Bostridge performs Schubert's brooding masterpiece Winterreise. Learn more!

Acclaimed contemporary composer Mark-Anthony Turnage will join forces with Olivier Award-winning director Richard Jones in the world premiere of Festen.

For its first season under the leadership of new Chief Executive Tyler Stoops, The Grange Festival has announced the programme for summer 2025.

Hot on the stiletto heels of her critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, two-time Olivier and multi-award-winning, critically acclaimed British actress, singer and musical theatre star, Janie Dee will perform a series of autumn dates for Janie Dee's Beautiful World Of Cabaret - a playfully informative and inspirational musical journey into humanity and nature, that is, at its heart, always hopeful.

Shriver Hall Concert Series kicks off its 2024-25 and 59th concert season with acclaimed pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in her solo Baltimore Recital Debut on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 5:30pm.

Has opera found its own Ivo van Hove? Jan Philipp Gloger’s radical production of Così fan tutte continues until 10 July.

The UK’s foremost opera training organisation, the National Opera Studio (NOS), has announced the new cohort of singers and repetiteurs for its flagship Young Artists Programme for the 2024/25 season.

International soprano Golda Schultz will make her much anticipated Royal Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Jan Philipp Gloger's witty production of Mozart's Così fan tutte, which will return from Wednesday 26 June – Wednesday 10 July 2024.  

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts SF Symphony in three programs at Davies Symphony Hall in February and March 2024.

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists make their Canadian debut with a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor. This pinnacle of choral and Western music will showcase the virtuosity, pathos, and joy of the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists. Get all the details here!