Mikaela Bennett News

Opera Philadelphia announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring five new productions including works by Mozart, Verdi, and the Gershwins, plus world and Philadelphia premieres of new operas.

The Cliburn has revealed its the 2026–2027 Cliburn Concerts season, the 49th year of its signature annual recital series. Subscriptions—including choose-your-own packages—are on sale now.

The Houston Symphony and Music Director Juraj Valčuha revealed details of the 2026−27 Season, Valčuha’s fifth as music director. Valčuha leads eight of the eighteen classical subscription programs in the season.

This is Beth Morrison’s first year as sole curator, producer and presenter of New York’s PROTOTYPE Festival of indie opera/music theatre. She’s also midwife for the birth of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s gorgeously composed HILDEGARD, its centerpiece, which I heard at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College on January 11. Morrison has proven herself, once again, to be true to her eponymous organization’s seeming marching orders: “I never do anything twice.”

Sarah Kirkland Snider’s first opera, HILDEGARD, continues its rolling world premiere at the PROTOTYPE Festival in New York City. The production follows earlier performances presented by Los Angeles Opera.

Snider’s first opera, HILDEGARD, for which she also wrote the libretto, will be presented in rolling world premieres by Los Angeles Opera (November 5-9, 2025) and PROTOTYPE Festival in New York (January 9-17, 2026), with subsequent performances at the Aspen Music Festival and School (Summer 2026, details TBA).

Join creative producer Beth Morrison; Christopher Koelsch, President and CEO, LA Opera; director Elkhanah Pulitzer; and composer Sarah Kirkland Snider for a discussion on the commissioning and creation of HILDEGARD.

The new album, Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley, is available now in streaming and digital formats. Listen to the full album here or find out how to download or stream!

Center Stage Records will release a new album of songs by the composer/lyricist Peter Foley (1967–2021), titled Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley. Check out an exclusive video of “You Captured My Heart,” performed by Max Chernin, here!

CENTER STAGE RECORDS will release Out of Myself – Songs of Peter Foley in streaming and digital formats in July. The album will feature Kate Baldwin, Melissa Errrico and more.

The New York premiere of the Christopher Cerrone/Stephanie Fleischmann opera IN A GROVE, in Mary Birnbaum’s simply beautiful—or beautifully simple—production triumphed at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club on Saturday as part of the Prototype Festival. It is inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s classic story (best known from its film version, “Rashomon”).

Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein from musical theatre gems were celebrated and sung and discussed at 92NY in a fine Lyrics and Lyricists concert, COCKEYED OPTIMIST concert at The 92nd Street Y, New York. The concert kicked off L&L's 2024-25 season which continues next month with a tribute to activist Nina Simone.

Cockeyed Optimist: Where Hammerstein Found His Hope, the Lyrics and Lyricists 2024/25 season opener, takes a deep dive into the plays, novels, and films that inspired Oscar Hammerstein. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Cincinnati Opera and CCM have announced a workshop for 'HILDEGARD,' a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider, commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects, through the Opera Fusion: New Works Partnership.

This September, ring in the chilly months with debuts of new shows and returning favorites! Celebrate the beginning of spooky season with Agatha All Along, the musical follow-up to WandaVision starring Patti LuPone or revisit film adaptations of Broadway shows like In the Heights and Doubt.

Two giants of the jazz world and one composer who has had vast influence on modern music made up a mixed, but interesting, evening at the BBC Prom 35 in the ever-majestic Royal Albert Hall.

A new Carousel Studio Cast recording is on the way! Recorded in April 2023 with the Sinfonia of London (conducted by John Wilson). We have all the details on the new album here!

See photos of Norm Lewis, Kate Baldwin and more performing Follies in concert at Carnegie Hall!

PS Classics has released Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg on streaming and digital formats. Listen now!

BroadwayWorld has your first listen to an all new track from the upcoming album, Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg. 'Little Boy Blue' is performed by Colin Donnell, and based on a poem by Eugene Field.