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Casts Set for ROMÉO ET JULIETTE & More at Palm Beach Opera

Palm Beach Opera has revealed the casts for its 2025 season with Gounod's ROMÉO ET JULIETTE, and more featuring acclaimed artists and debuts at the Kravis Center. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2025 Adler Fellows

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

LA Opera to Revive Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET Directed by Kitty McNamee

LA Opera will present the revival of Gounod's ROMEO AND JULIET, marking Kitty McNamee's directorial debut. McNamee will also choreograph, promising a fresh take on the classic. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Review: Bard's LE PROPHETE Makes You Long for 'Brevity' of Wagner's Ring Cycle

Saying that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is long is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole: It doesn’t begin to describe the experience, though they both sometimes have a rocky landscape.

Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE to Open At Bard SummerScape This Month

Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHÈTE will return to the U.S. stage for the first time in 47 years with a new treatment by Christian Räth at Bard SummerScape. Learn how to purchase tickets.

BARD SUMMERSCAPE Opens This Week

Highlights of the 8-week Bard SummerScape in NY’s Hudson Valley include Meyerbeer’s opera LE PROPHÈTE and the Bard Music Festival, BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD.

Meyerbeer's LE PROPHETE Comes to SummerScape

As a highlight of the 2024 Bard SummerScapefestival, the Fisher Center at Bard presents the first new American production in almost five decades of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le prophète, an all-too-topical grand opera in which religion, politics, and power collide.

Detroit Opera Reveals 2024-25 Season

Detroit Opera has announced its 2024–25 Opera and Dance seasons. Learn more about the full lineup here!

The Fisher Center at Bard Unveils SummerScape 2024 Programming Featuring Theater, Opera, Dance & More

The Fisher Center at Bard has revealed its SummerScape 2024 programming, running June 20 – August 18, 2024.

Video: Watch a Preview for ROMEO AND JULIET, Coming to LA Opera in November

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including Romeo and Juliet, running from November 2nd through 23rd. Watch a video preview of the production here!

LA Opera Season to Include ROMEO AND JULIET, Concerts from Kelli O'Hara and Kristin Chenoweth

LA Opera President and CEO Christopher Koelsch has announced details for the company's 39th season. Music Director James Conlon will conduct three of the five mainstage productions, with other mainstage performances led by Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados and by guest conductor Domingo Hindoyan.

OPERA America Reveals Winners of the 2023 Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera

OPERA America has revealed the winners of the 2023 Awards for Digital Excellence in Opera

San Francisco Opera Center Announces The 2024 Adler Fellows

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam announced today the 11 recipients of the 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship.

The Greatest Love Story Ever Sung: Canadian Opera Company's LA BOHÈME Invites Audiences On A Whirlwind Romance

Art, love, and loss collide for a charismatic group of struggling young artists trying to make it in the city as Puccini's La Bohème returns to the Canadian Opera Company from October 6 to 28, 2023. 

Soprano Yaritza Véliz Wins The 2023 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition

Yaritza Véliz is named 2023 Emerging Star of the Year based on a popular vote conducted online at sfopera.com from July 11 to August 4, 2023. As the winner of the competition, now in its fifth year, Véliz receives a $10,000 cash prize.

MEDEA, a World Premiere & More to Headline Canadian Opera Company's 2023/2024 Season

The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2023/2024 season today featuring a slate of exciting new productions and rare musical gems.

COC Celebrates Return To The Stage With Sold-Out Shows And Revitalized Programming

Canadian Opera Company's 2021/2022 season was marked by sold-out shows, an average mainstage attendance capacity of 94%, and impressive growth in the company's online community as reported yesterday by COC Board Chair Jonathan Morgan and COC General Director Perryn Leech.

San Francisco Opera Releases New Free Episode of Award-Winning Video Portrait Series

San Francisco Opera's Webby Award-winning In Song video portrait series continues with the release of In Song: Pretty Yende. Filmed on location in Piet Retief and Cape Town, this new episode features the enthralling South African soprano Pretty Yende, who makes her Company debut as Violetta in a new production of Verdi's La Traviata opening November 11.

& JULIET and More Take Home Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Full List!

The 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards were handed out in front of an enthusiastic audience tonight at The Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre Centre in the Elgin Theatre. Hosted by award-winning actor and director, Sabryn Rock, the gala ceremony celebrated excellence in Toronto theatre, dance and opera. The ceremony, which unfolded with characteristic razzle-dazzle, caps one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of Toronto performing arts.

Nominations Announced for 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Nominees Include CURSED CHILD, & JULIET, & IS GOD IS & More.

At a press conference held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 235 nominations for the 42nd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto.