Des Moines Metro Opera Announces 2027 Festival Season
Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO)’s Linda Koehn General and Artistic Director, Michael Egel, has announced the repertory for the company’s 2027 Festival Season.
Jules Barbier News
HAMLET Will Come to Paris in September
The Paris Opera will present Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet” at the Opéra Bastille, in a staging that reexamines Shakespeare’s tragedy through a psychological lens.
RIGOLETTO, ORPHEUS & EURYDICE and More Set for Pittsburgh Opera 2026–27 Season
Pittsburgh Opera revealed its 2026-27 season, its 88th, featuring five productions across four venues, including a world premiere, and classic works by Verdi, Handel, Gluck, and Gounod.
Review: ROMÉO ET JULIETTE at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre
Charles Gounod took Shakespeare’s tale of the star-crossed lovers and adapted it to create the 1867 opera, Roméo et Juliette, with an overture and Shakespeare’s explanatory prologue, delivered by the chorus, followed by a five-act opera, with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Review: Bernheim Brings His Well-Schooled HOFFMAN to the Met with Elan
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.
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN (The Tales of Hoffmann) to Open The Met's 2024–25 Live in HD season
Offenbach's fantastical final work, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), will open the Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 Live in HD season.
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN to Return to the Met Opera Starring Tenor Benjamin Bernheim
Offenbach’s final masterpiece, LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN, will return to the Met Opera with tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role.
Merola Opera Program Continues Summer Festival Season With Schwabacher Summer Concert
Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the passion and melody of classic opera, as the young artists of the 2024 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, Gounod's Faust, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Massenet's Cendrillon, Puccini's La bohème, and Richard
MIGNON is Now Playing at Theater Basel
Mignon is now playing at Theater Basel.
Review: ROMEO ET JULIETTE at Arizona Opera
Arizona Opera's revival of Charles Gounod’s ROMEO ET JULIETTE is, by all measures, a triumph of staging and performance.
Berkshire Opera Festival Announces 2024 Season: FAUST And Anthony Davis's THE REEF
Berkshire Opera Festival has announced its 2024 season in Great Barrington, MA and New York City.
LA Opera Season to Include ROMEO AND JULIET, Concerts from Kelli O'Hara and Kristin Chenoweth
LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season.
Lyric Opera Of Kansas City Announces ROMEO ET JULIETTE
Lyric Opera of Kansas City announces Roméo et Juliette, running March 9-17, 2024 at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Kennedy Center
The oft-told tale of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet which has been beloved throughout the ages and been interpreted and showcased in so many films, stage productions and even a ballet ---has been mounted by the Washington National Opera in an odd sort of manner.
Washington National Opera Presents Gounod's ROMEO & JULIET, November 4–18
Washington National Opera presents Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Simon Godwin and starring Adam Smith and Rosa Feola.
Arizona Opera Reveals Casts and Creative Teams for 2023/24 Season Productions
Get the inside scoop on the cast members and creative teams for Arizona Opera's highly anticipated 2023/24 season productions.
Opera San José Launches Season With All-New ROMEO & JULIET
Opera San José will launch its 40th anniversary season with an all-new production of Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, directed by OSJ General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey, in her first production since taking the helm of the company.
Merola Opera Program to Present Schwabacher Summer Concert in August
Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the high drama and opulent melodies of classic opera as artists from the 2023 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from works by Donizetti, Handel, Verdi, and others in the Schwabacher Summer Concert.
Arizona Opera Announces Its 2023/24 Season Line-up
Arizona Opera officially announced its 2023/24 Season, featuring four opera productions – including a World Premiere – in Phoenix and Tucson, as well as the company’s inaugural New Works Festival in Phoenix, and a new series of community concerts in Tucson.
HOFFMAN'S TALES Comes to Greek National Opera This Month
The much-anticipated new co-production of the National Opera with the Opéra La Monnaie of Brussels is The Tales of Hoffmann under the intelligent direction of the leading European director of opera and theater Krzysztof Warlikowski, who undertakes to reveal the essence of a work where place and
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