First Coast Opera announced its 2026-2027 season, featuring comic works by Bach and Donizetti, The Elixir of Love on New Year's Eve, and THE TENDER LAND at Ancient City Farmstead. Free tickets for under-18 attendees are also introduced.
Opera Orlando will kick off its upcoming education season with a new cohort of SINGS!: Summer Institute for the Next Generation of Singers, a week-long training intensive concluding in a public showcase recital at Timucua Arts Foundation.
Festival Opera will present Donizetti's The Elixir of Love in two free outdoor performances in Orinda and Walnut Creek, followed by a Salon Series at Piedmont Center for the Arts featuring a commissioned song cycle.
Opera Orlando will present NO TENORS ALLOWED, a summer concert series featuring sopranos Nola Richardson, Yeawon Jun, and Johanna Will across three consecutive Sunday performances at Dr. Phillips Center.
Opera Saratoga has announced additional casting for its summer festival productions of MY FAIR LADY and The Elixir of Love. The performances will take place June 20–28 at Universal Preservation Hall as part of the company's 65th anniversary season.
Independent Opera Company will present a fully staged production of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at La Cañada Congregational Church in La Cañada Flintridge, CA, featuring local singers in costume with piano accompaniment.
San Francisco Opera will present Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE with two international casts led by conductor Benjamin Manis, featuring baritones Joshua Hopkins and Justin Austin sharing the title role.
Nickel City Opera will present A CANDLE OPERA CONCERT at Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center, featuring a 15-piece orchestra, international soloists, and over a thousand flickering candles.
Drag performers Ginger Minj and Jujubee will star in LICKED: FOR GAY, a sapphic parody of Wicked, with performances scheduled at Out Front Theatre in Atlanta and the Red Room in Provincetown.
Opera Orlando announced its 2026-27 season of six productions across three venues, including its first-ever Wagner production and a centennial celebration of an American classic at Dr. Phillips Center's Steinmetz Hall.
The Dallas Opera (TDO) will release select operas from past seasons for free, on-demand viewing via its YouTube channel. Productions were recorded live at the Winspear Opera House, and each will be available for one month from May through August 2026.
Overture Center in Madison, Wis. announced its 2026/27 season, featuring eight Broadway productions including Wisconsin premieres of MAYBE HAPPY ENDING and DEATH BECOMES HER, plus over 30 Overture Presents performances.
WILD ARTS will present a Summer 2026 Opera Tour featuring new productions of THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and AN EVENING OF OPERA, directed by Danielle de Niese and Guido Martin-Brandis, respectively.
The Brick Presbyterian Church in Manhattan will present John Stainer's oratorio THE CRUCIFIXION on Good Friday, April 3rd, as part of its 2025-26 Worship & Arts series.
Cal Harris and Thomas Gorham, co-founders of Head First Acrobats, will return to Adelaide Fringe in 2026 for their 12th year at the festival, taking on a triple role as performers, producers and co-directors of Fool’s Paradise.
The Canadian Opera Company has unveiled its 2026/2027 season, featuring a Canadian world premiere, two new-to-Toronto productions on its mainstage at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and an additional new work from Opera 5, the COC’s Company-in-Residence, to be performed at the Canadian Opera Company Theatre.
A new stage adaptation of Shirley Jackson's bestselling novel The Haunting of Hill House will make its world premiere with a UK tour this autumn. Learn more here!
The OffWestEnd Awards (Offies) have revealed their 2026 nominations, highlighting the best in independent theatre. The awards showcase a range of emerging and established talent in the Off-West End scene.
Waterperry Opera Festival has unveiled its full programme for the 2026 Festival. The festival returns this summer under the new leadership of Artistic Director and CEO John Savournin.
This February, Seattle Opera will present the trailblazing opera Fellow Travelers, a gay love story set during the Lavender Scare, a McCarthy-era witch hunt that ousted thousands of gay and lesbian employees from the federal government.
All new production images have been released from English National Opera’s HMS Pinafore, running through 7 Feb 2026 at the London Coliseum. Check out the photos here!
San Francisco Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's PARSIFAL runs from October 25 through November 13 on the War Memorial Opera House stage, and the production released photos.
See first look photos of the Santa Fe Opera's 2024 revival of 'The Elixir of Love' directed by Stephen Lawless.
Radio show whodunnit blends murder mystery parlor game and old-time radio for old-fashioned family fun.
The final production of San Francisco Opera’s 2023 Fall Season marks the return Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore) for a six-performance run at the War Memorial Opera House opening tonight, November 19. Check out production photos here!
