The Aspen Music Festival and School's eight-week summer season, titled 'For All,' will feature world and Colorado premieres, a fully staged opera, and guest appearances by Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson and more.
San Francisco Opera will present its second annual Pride Concert at the War Memorial Opera House, featuring emcee Sapphira Cristál, conductor Robert Mollicone, and soloists Melody Moore, Nikola Printz, and Reginald Smith, Jr.
Carnegie Hall will host a centennial concert honoring American opera composer Carlisle Floyd, featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, conductor Christopher James Ray, and the inaugural Carlisle Floyd Prize for Voice.
San Francisco Opera will present Richard Strauss' ELEKTRA, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, in Keith Warner's contemporary museum staging featuring a cast including Elena Pankratova and Elza van den Heever.
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.
Festival Napa Valley announced its 20th anniversary summer season, featuring Renée Fleming, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Chen, and the world premiere of THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS, a new opera by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer.
San Francisco Opera will present its second annual Pride Concert on June 26 at the War Memorial Opera House, hosted by Sapphira Cristál, with conductor Robert Mollicone leading soloists Melody Moore, Nikola Printz, and Reginald Smith, Jr.
When Charlotte Symphony announced their 2025-26 schedule last March, they couldn’t have predicted the serendipity of two recent concerts a year later. Three subsequent events had to align. Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere recording of Jake Heggie’s Intelligence had to be released in August, and the recording, conducted by Charlotte Symphony music director Kwamé Ryan and starring soprano Janai Brugger, had to be nominated for a Grammy Award.
Festival Napa Valley has announced its 20th anniversary summer season featuring Renée Fleming, Wynton Marsalis, and the world premiere of THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. The festival will run July 4 through July 19 across Napa Valley.
Now in its 42nd year, the Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center, will return this spring with a series of three recitals.
By popular demand, Sip & Sing will return for two nights this season, bringing together Opera Colorado and Nocturne Jazz & Supper Club for a one-of-a-kind evening of live music and fine dining.
L'Ermitage Foundation Concert Series in association with the Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles and Camarada, the renowned Chamber Music Collective will present SONIC REALMS.
Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham will headline the Carlisle Floyd Centennial Concert at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the legacy of the iconic American composer.
The Aspen Music Festival & School has announced its 2026 season, running from July 1 to August 23, under the theme 'For All'. The eight-week festival in Aspen will feature a diverse lineup of performances and educational events.
Opera Parallele will present an engaging lineup for its 2026 spring season, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic operas. The season aims to attract a diverse audience with its innovative productions.
English National Opera will continue its partnership with Greater Manchester with two semi-staged concert performances of Mozart's comic masterpiece Così fan tutte at The Bridgewater Hall on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 February 2026.
The English National Opera will present a new production of RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY, featuring Andre de Ridder and Danielle de Niese. Learn more here!
The Carlisle Floyd Centennial will present an international celebration marking the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth on June 11, 2026, recognizing his lasting role in American opera and his deep ties to the cultural life of the American South.
ENO's witty and whimsical production of Mozart's Così fan tutte will return to the London Coliseum this February with a new cast. Learn more about the upcoming production here!
Theatre is, of course, a window on another world, often glitzier and brighter than our own, sometimes a reflection that can comfort or discomfit us and sometimes a portal into what it is to be human at all. It is an escape - and who can deny that we need such refuges more than ever - but it can be so much more than mere escapism. The best theatre of 2025 made those lofty promises - and kept them.
