San Francisco Opera Unveils 2026-27 Season Featuring SIMON BOCCANEGRA, MANON, DAS RHEINGOLD & More
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 20, 2026
San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring productions of Simon Boccanegra, Mary, Queen of Scots, Manon, The Marriage of Figaro, Das Rheingold, and Tosca, along with concerts, Opera Ball, and Opera in the Park.
TURANDOT Will Come to The Seoul Arts Center
by Stephi Wild - Jul 16, 2026
The Seoul Arts Center will present its 2026 production of Puccini’s opera “Turandot” in July at the Opera Theater in Seoul, South Korea. Learn more about the production here.
Photos: Hillary Clinton Joins Arcadia Symphony To Celebrate America's 250th
by Marissa Faith Curley - Jul 11, 2026
Maestro Michael Fennelly and his Arcadia Symphony celebrated America's 250th anniversary with a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium. The evening featured a surprise appearance by Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, who joined the orchestra on-stage for a special performance. Check out the photos!
Des Moines Metro Opera Announces 2027 Festival Season
by Marissa Faith Curley - Jul 5, 2026
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. It will features a new production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, a new production and company premiere of Philip Glass’s Orphée, and the revival of the company’s acclaimed 2017 production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd.
Review: LA BOHÈME, Royal Ballet And Opera
by Cheryl Markosky - Jul 2, 2026
On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, England's captain, Harry Kane, leads his team to the last 16 after scoring two goals against the Democratic of Congo in the World Cup. Concurrently, another decisive victory is pulled off by an equally promising young man, 35-year-old Italian conductor Lorenzo Passerini, in his debut with The Royal Opera at Covent Garden.
Photos: LA BOHÈME At Opera Festival of Chicago
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 26, 2026
Opera Festival of Chicago has released production photos from its staging of La Bohème, now playing at the George Van Dusen Theatre at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie. Check out the photos.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY Will Come to Princeton Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jun 3, 2026
Soprano Toni Marie Palmertree, fresh from the Metropolitan Opera stage, will perform the title role in the Princeton Festival's new production of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Morven Museum & Garden, with a 7-year-old local student making his Festival debut.
Review: TOSCA, Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 22, 2026
Tosca is Giacomo Puccini's fast-paced thriller of an opera; brimming with tension and political intrigue. For many it is Puccini's best work, yet incredibly it has never been staged at Glyndebourne. Until now. It is a show of firsts all round: the first mainstage production for director Ted Huffman and is the first Puccini opera for Glyndebourne’s music director Robin Ticciati, who conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the first of two performance runs.
ECHOES ACROSS THE LAND To Be Performed At Markideio Municipal Theatre
by Marissa Faith Curley - May 6, 2026
Following the opening concert of the Classical Music category within the new Concert Series of the Pafos Municipality Cultural Programme, they will continue with the concert “Echoes Across Lands” featuring the soprano Eleni Charalambous and the pianist Mariola Charitidou.