Houston Grand Opera News

Music Worcester will present the critically acclaimed American Spiritual Ensemble in Assumption University's Curtis Performance Hall on Saturday, April 6th. 

Karen Slack will be the featured soloist in To Sit and Dream, presented by Opera Philadelphia as part of its Sounds of America series. Learn more about the performance and see how to purchase tickets.

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.

Berkshire Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season in Great Barrington, MA and New York City.

RED BULL THEATER has revealed updated casting for the next offering of a new season of OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings: Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. See who is starring!

Houston Grand Opera is launching a new initiative featuring special themed experiences this spring at three performances of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.

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.

Saratoga Springs' own Opera Saratoga will bring the live touring production of Katie: Strongest of the Strong to area schools and venues during the month of March as part of its many outreach programs.

Ballet Hispánico School of Dance is offering spring adult classes, available now! Learn more bout the classes and see how to register.

David Alden’s double Olivier award-winning production of Janáček’s Jenůfa returns to the London Coliseum in March. Learn more about the show here!

Houston Grand Opera and Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church invite Houstonians to join them for the Fifth Annual Giving Voice Concert. This free, ticketed event celebrates Black women artists in opera and song. The concert will be held on Friday, March 8, 2024, at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in the historic Third Ward.

The pre-Broadway world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s legendary film and album, PURPLE RAIN, will take place in Prince’s hometown, Minneapolis, MN. We have all the details on the new msuical!

Robert Spano will become Music Director of Washington National Opera. Learn more about Robert Spano and the Washington National Opera.

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is proud to debut the winners for this year's Concert of Arias, the 36th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, held this evening at the Wortham Theater Center and livestreamed for audiences at home.

Music by José “Pepe” Martinez, Lyrics by José “Pepe” Martinez and Leonard Foglia, Book by Leonard Foglia, Orchestration by David Hanlon, CRUZAR offers a deeply moving and acutely transparent experience.

Watch Tenor Jack Swanson sing 'Si Ritrovarla io Giuro', the iconic aria from Rossini's CINDERELLA in the video here!

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

Enjoy a first look at the 'mind-bending' new production of Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI, on now at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts!​​​​​​​

Portland Opera has announced it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $22,000. This grant will support the company's upcoming production of The Snowy Day, by composer Joel Thompson and librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney, based on the children's book by Ezra Jack Keats.

Rossini's CENERENTOLA — or, CINDERELLA — has been an audience favorite for more than 200 years. From its perfectly balanced structure to the fun and fizzy melodies, Maestra Yi-Chen Lin shares why this beloved opera has stood the test of time. Watch the interview here!