Maria Callas News

Next week, 54 Below will present some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond, featuring Filipinos on Broadway Melissa Errico with Billy Stritch, and more.

Brief Cameo Productions will present a one-night reading of Terrence McNally's THE LISBON TRAVIATA as a Pride Month fundraiser at The Centerbrook Meeting House in Connecticut, featuring cast members who began their BCP careers backstage.

The Greek National Opera is continuing its artistic outreach journey across Greece with a grand tour of Crete. The GNO tour will visit six municipalities on the island.

Global drag excellence conquers the acclaimed “International May Festival” in Wiesbaden: Drag superstar Monét X Change, for one night only. Somewhere between opera, pop, and chanson unfolds a glittering gala concert evening – at times dreamy, at times exalted – unlike anything the sophisticated grand hall of the spa city has accommodated before.

Joburg Ballet's 25th Anniversary Season has brought a wave of recognition, including a Naledi Theatre Award win, a World Press Photo Contest honor, and two National Dance Awards UK nominations.

AMPA's debut exhibition DIVA, featuring costumes worn by Cher, Tina Turner, Lady Gaga, and Kylie Minogue, closes April 26 at Arts Centre Melbourne, with half-price tickets and free public transport now available.

Brief Cameo Productions will kick off Pride Month with a celebration of the work and legacy of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, playwright Terrane McNally. For one night only the company will present a reading of McNally's The Lisbon Traviata.

Central City Opera announced 2026 Festival tickets on sale for its 94th season, running June 27–August 2, featuring THE BALLAD OF BABY DOE's 70th anniversary, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, and MASTER CLASS. Single tickets start at $34.

The Sherrill Milnes VOICE Programs will present the 2026 VOICE Gala on May 6 at the Harmonie Club in New York City. This annual event, a key fundraiser for opera scholarships, will celebrate the legacy of opera with a lineup of distinguished honorees and talented performers. The gala aims to support the development of future opera stars by raising funds for scholarships, ensuring the continuation of high-caliber vocal performance and education.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that stage and screen veteran Jane Lapotaire, who won Olivier and Tony Awards for portraying French singer Édith Piaf in the play Piaf, passed away on March 5 at 81 years old.

The Greek National Opera is presenting a new, captivating production of Anna Bolena, conducted by Jacques Lacombe and directed by Themelis Glynatsis. Learn more here!

For the first time in the United States, six opera costumes created for the renowned performer Maria Callas and belonging to Teatro alla Scala in Milan will be displayed at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery.

Three decades after directing the Maine premiere of Ken Ludwig’s LEND ME A TENOR, Brian P. Allen, Artistic Director of the Good Theater, now brings to the stage the Maine premiere of Ludwig’s new version of the material.  With gender changes and altered comic thrust,  LEND ME A SOPRANO presents the farcical tale of mistaken identity in the melodramatic world of grand opera with delicious verve.

54 Below will welcome back Broadway and cabaret star Melissa Errico. After the triumph of The Streisand Effect, her homage to the great Barbra last fall, Melissa Errico returns with a new edition of the show

The cast for Master Class at The Wilton Playshop in Fairfield has been announced, ahead of the production's opening on February 13, with the run lasting through February 28.

The Australian Museum of Performing Arts will open DIVA, a major new exhibition developed with London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Featuring more than 250 objects, DIVA highlights international icons and Australian artists who have redefined the meaning of the word “diva.”

'Master Class,' running through December 14 in a co-production between The Roustabouts Theatre Company and Scripps Ranch Theatre, revisits Maria Callas in the final chapter of her performing life; when her voice had faded, yet her fervor for her art had not.

Jenny Mollica, Chief Executive of English National Opera (ENO), has been appointed the new CEO of the Roundhouse. She will step down from her current role in summer 2026.

Van de bijna zeventig opera’s die Gaetano Donizetti de wereld heeft nagelaten, is Lucia di Lammermoor waarschijnlijk zijn belangrijkste. Met dit dramma tragico bewees Donizetti de waardige evenknie van belcantogrootmeesters als Rossini en Bellini te zijn.

Multi-Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato will make her long-anticipated Australian debut this month, appearing with both the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in a series of gala performances.