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Wagner College Opera will present SOMETHING MORE..., an opera scenes concert featuring masterpieces by Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, Bernstein, Menotti, and more.

Teatro Grattacielo has received a grant award totaling $40,000 from the New York State Council on the Arts to support the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Learn more!

OPERA America has revealed the 18 global participants selected for the 2025 Leadership Intensive. The Intensive offers participants an extended professional development experience. Learn more about the program!

Malevolence, greed, the thirst for power and the never-ending quest for revenge dominate the Washington National Opera production of composer Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth. The vocals by the company of classical singers assembled here are the glory of this production.

​​​​​​​Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. That’s the hypothesis of Harry Fehr’s new iteration of The Elixir Of Love, a self-reflexive swipe on 1970s sitcoms drunk on the saccharine sentimentalism of second world war triumphalism. Pip pip. Tally ho.

San Jose Opera's production of La Bohème is currently being presented through December 1, 2024 at the California Theatre in San Jose.  Check out the production photos here!

Long Beach Opera announced its 2025 season featuring works by Pauline Oliveros, highlighting site-specific performances. Discover how these innovative productions will transform traditional opera experiences.

The San Francisco Opera Center has announced the 2025 Adler Fellows, highlighting emerging artists in opera.

An intimate look at family, faith, and community in times of grief and healing, Blue makes its Chicago premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago from November 16 to December 1, 2024. See photos of the production.

Words run out, as The Voice is lost and recovered

Marc A. Scorca, President/CEO of OPERA America, has announced his retirement after 33 years of leadership.

Portland Opera will present THE JULIET LETTERS, a new collaboration between Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.

Daniele Rustioni has been appointed as the Metropolitan Opera's Principal Guest Conductor, becoming only the third person to hold this position in the company's history.

Check out photos from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI at Pittsburgh Opera.  The operas will be performed November 9, 12, 15, and 17, 2024 at Benedum Center.

The Marriage of Figaro returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago for eight performances only, November 9–30, 2024. Check out photos and video of the production.

Damiano Michieletto brings plenty of pizzazz to Offenbach's crowdpleaser, but wastes some of his on-stage talents

Florida Grand Opera has announced the season kickoff with a new production of THE MAGIC FLUTE on November 16th.

Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves’ career has garnered unparalleled popular and critical acclaim. Ms. Graves’ acclaimed appearances as Carmen and Dalila in Samson et Dalila have resounded in the world’s greatest opera houses, and her success has been recognized in notable television appearances, interviews, masterclasses, and magazines.

What did our critic think of SAN DIEGO OPERA PRESENTS LA BOHÈME at San Diego Civic Center? San Diego Opera celebrated the opening of its 60th season with Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, the same opera the company staged to open its first season. Its magnificent melodies, a touchingly tragic love story, and arias that are among the most beautiful ever written have made it one of the world’s most performed operas for many years, an obvious choice for attracting audiences and donors. The story begins in a bohemian Parisian garret where Rodolfo, a young writer, rooms with a painter, a musician and a philosopher. Money is scarce, and the only source of heat is a small stove. With no wood left to burn, Rodolfo begins to use pages from the manuscript of a play he’s writing for what few moments of heat they can provide. When the flames die down a roommate comments, “It opened and closed on the same night.”

The Riverside Opera Company will present A Night at the Opera on Saturday, November 9.  Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

As usual, the gala concert of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation started off with an interloper from the golden age of opera: Richard Tucker himself, singing Mascagni’s “Addio alla Madre” from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. A tough act to follow for those singing live at Carnegie Hall, but happily no one seemed daunted by it. That doesn’t mean everything went smoothly at the gala concert, which is par for the course of the annual event. Despite the prestige of the Richard Tucker Awards, the world doesn’t stop when the Tucker Foundation comes a calling.

The Breeders' Cup will welcomes internationally-acclaimed tenor Anthony Kearns back to the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Del Mar on Saturday, November 2, 2024, to perform on Race Day afternoon.

According to France 24, the Paris Opera will close its houses for years of renovation work. The Palais Garnier will close from mid-2027 for two years, and the Opera Bastille will begin renovation mid-2030, for another two years.

I must admit that the Met’s current revival of IL TROVATORE--with RIGOLETTO and TRAVIATA, considered the great creations of Verdi’s middle period--made me think of another masterwork, “A Night at the Opera,” my favorite of the movies by those champions of silliness, the Marx Brothers.

Mezzo-soprano Ariana Maubach of Toronto took home First Prize and the Audience Choice Prize at the Canadian Opera Company’s 11th annual Centre Stage: Ensemble Studio Competition on October 30, 2024 at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.