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OPERA America has announced the induction of seven exemplary artists, administrators, and advocates to the Opera Hall of Fame as the class of 2024.

Check out photos from San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde here!

Osvaldo Golijov’s AINADAMAR, which made its Met debut this week, with a libretto translated by the composer from the English original by David Henry Hwang, isn’t the first Spanish language opera at the Met, but it’s certainly the first to sound that way. Read the review.

This season, Tapestry Opera will celebrate 45 years of producing innovative, powerful opera that reflects and changes the world around us.

Get a first video look at Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning first opera at the Met in a stunning new production by Deborah Colker, starring Angel Blue, Elena Villalón, and Daniela Mack. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts.

New York's first disability-affirmative opera company Opera Praktikos (OPrak) will present “There Will Be Cake” – a matinee mono-opera concert series on Thursday-Saturday, December 12-14, 2024, at 1:30 p.m., at downtown Manhattan's Asylum NYC.

San Francisco Opera has announced the release of Eun Sun Kim: A Journey Into Lohengrin, an hour-long film by San Francisco Opera and Lumahai Productions, the partners behind the Company’s award-winning In Song video portrait series.

Utah Opera's production of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD opens tomorrow at the Capitol Theatre, just in time for Halloween.

Brazilian actor Douglas Tholedo joins the cast of the Met Opera's new production of AIDA for the 2024/2025 season, featuring elaborate projections and animations set in ancient Egypt.

If you're a parent, brace yourself - and enjoy the glorious singing and fine music writes our critic about TROUBLE IN TAHITI and THE QUIET PLACE.

Watch the joyful finale of Beethoven's FIDELIO where Leonore (Elza van den Heever) and Florestan (Russell Thomas) celebrate freedom and love after Pizzaro's corrupt schemes are exposed. Check out the video!

Get a first look at the production of Rigoletto now on stage at the Met Opera in this all-new video.

Opera Hispánica has announced its 2024-25 season featuring exciting collaborations and repertoire raging from the Latin American Baroque to World Premieres.

Teatro Grattacielo and Light Opera of NJ will present L'ELISIR D'AMORE in New Jersey, featuring emerging talents from Camerata Bardi Voice Academy. Performances will take place in November. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

The Georg Solti Accademia has announced its 20th anniversary celebration, marking two decades of excellence in training young talent in the technique and style of Italian “Bel Canto”, and continuing the operatic legacy of the legendary British/Hungarian conductor Sir Georg Solti.

“This is not a cathartic tragedy or a tale of noble sacrifice. There are no admirable characters here, no moral lesson, no redemption, and no silver lining. There is only a merciless depiction of society’s dark side,” say the Met’s program notes for RIGOLETTO. I’m not so sure.

Source/Filter Music Collective has announced the West Coast premiere of SANCTA SUSANNA, a horror opera by Paul Hindemith, at Heritage Square Museum on October 24-25. Learn more about the show including who is in the cast and how to get tickets.

It’s fascinating that within two weeks, as the new US opera season began in earnest, Northeast operagoers heard a pair of new (or new-ish) operas by well-known creators: the US premiere of THE LISTENERS at Opera Philadelphia, by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek and the much-revised GROUNDED by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, the gala opening night at the Met.

David T. Little’s GRAMMY-nominated opera BLACK LODGE will launch a fall/winter tour with screenings in Sweden, a West Coast premiere in Los Angeles on October 19, and a live NYC premiere in January. Learn more!

Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang’s Grammy Award–winning opera, Ainadamar, has its company premiere in October. Sung in Spanish to a libretto translated by its composer, Ainadamar—literally “Fountain of Tears”—dramatizes the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca. Learn how to purchase tickets.

The Met performed the season’s first TALES OF HOFFMANN (LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN), by Jacques Offenbach, with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, also a Sher production, and it was a different story.

Watch more scenes from The Met Opera's production of Composer Jeanine Tesori and Director Michael Mayer's production of Grounded, based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play.

The first teaser trailer for the biopic of opera singer Maria Callas has just dropped. The film, which made its premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday August 29, stars Angelina Jolie as the legendary soprano. The movie will be available on Netflix December 11, 2024, following a select theatrical release on November 27, 2024

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts have announced the addition of Richard Bernstein to the cast of Divaria Productions Opera Company's performance of MADAME BUTTERFLY: AN ADAPTATION on October 19th at 8 pm. 

Long Beach Opera has been chosen as a recipient of an unrestricted General Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation.