Richard Wagner News

Vancouver Opera has announced the 2022-2023 season. Returning to the Vancouver Opera stage after 28 years is The Pearl Fishers in October. A company premiere alights the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with ethereal magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream in February. Concluding the season is the long-awaited return of a legend with Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

It was May 1, 1971 and the Midland Symphony Orchestra and Choirs of the Center were joined together for the dedication concert of Midland Center for the Arts featuring “Prelude to Die Meistersinger” by Richard Wagner, “Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber, and “The Promise of Living” by Aaron Copland.

The San Diego Symphony today announced its 2022-23 Jacobs Masterworks Classical concert season, offering 16 programs of classical and contemporary masterworks from October 1, 2022 through May 27, 2023. 

Three fan favourites, two riveting dramas, a new production of Verdi’s Macbeth, and an exciting co-production with Vancouver Opera headline the Canadian Opera Company’s 2022/2023 programming. View the full season schedule and learn how to get tickets.

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire, and more.

After the success of Lohengrin in 2018 and Tristan und Isolde in 2019, La Monnaie De Munt's musical director Alain Altinoglu will continue his exploration of Wagnerian music with the concert version of Parsifal.

Opera Maine will present The Flying Dutchman at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine on Wednesday, July 27 and Friday, July 29, 2022. The opera will be sung in German with English supertitles. It will be sung in two acts with one intermission.

​​​​​​​Opera Maine's 2022 Studio Artist Program, under the leadership of Richard Gammon, will feature performances of The Fall of the House of Usher by Philip Glass on June 29 and July 1, 2022. The opera will be sung in English with English supertitles and performed with the full orchestration.

Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin may be famous for introducing the tune of “Here Comes The Bride” to the world but there’s much more here in this stirring tale. David Alden’s bold production debuted in 2018 to critical fanfare and now returns to the Royal Opera House with some excellent leads and immersive flourishes.

Featuring a cast headed by internationally renowned István Kovácsházi, Andrea Szántó, Károly Szemerédy and András Palerdi, the new production of Wagner's final opera is staged by András Almási-Tóth and conducted by Balázs Kocsár at the refurbished Opera House. The 15 April 2022 premiere is also streamed live on OperaVision, whereas the 17 April performance is a joint Bartók Spring event of the Hungarian State Opera and Müpa.

Following its triumphant return to in-person performances in the 2021-22 season, California Symphony has lined up a season of innovative programming, featuring exciting guest artists and music by living composers, women, and people of color – including some of Cabrera's favorite works.

It’s clear that night three of the City Center Dance Festival will not be a carefree return to our yesteryears, but a step into what comes next in the arts.  There is no better steward for this unknown future than The Paul Taylor Dance Company. 

Programming for The Dallas Opera’s 2022/2023 Season was announced today by Ian Derrer, The Dallas Opera’s Kern Wildenthal General Director and CEO, and Emmanuel Villaume, the Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director, in celebration of the company’s 65th Anniversary.

Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform at the inaugural City Center Dance Festival from March 24-31, at New York City Center.

Maestro Delfs continues to bring excitement and a new spirit of rebirth to the RPO with creative programming and an inclusive leadership style.

The Metropolitan Opera today announced its 2022–23 season, which features seven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Opening Night is September 27 with the company premiere of Cherubini’s Medea, starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role alongside tenor Matthew Polenzani in David McVicar’s new staging, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Batsheva Dance Company , widely recognized as one of the foremost contemporary dance companies, presents the world premiere of Hora - The Movie, directed by Batsheva house choreographer Ohad Naharin and co-produced by Factory 54.

Edward Gardner, recently hailed by The Times (London) for the 'sheer vivacity' of his music-making, has been appointed Music Director of the Norwegian Opera & Ballet. He will assume the position of Artistic Advisor from 1 February 2022 before beginning his tenure as Music Director on 1 August 2024.

The Ring Cycle includes four epic operas totalling 17 hours of performance time, and is known to be the greatest challenge for any opera company, as the most impressive and opulent event in the history of the artform.

Columbia University School of the Arts will present Phoebe Brooks (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2022) production of Der Ring Gott Farblonjet.