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George And Nora London Foundation For Singers Announces Its 2024-25 Season

The George and Nora London Foundation for Singers unveils its 2024-25 season, featuring a series of concerts and events showcasing talented vocalists and supporting emerging opera singers.
The 2024 George London Award Winners Have Been Announced

The 2024 George London Award winners have been announced, including soprano Katerina Burton, mezzo-sopranos Emily Treigle and Erin Wagner, tenor Samuel White, and baritones Benjamin Dickerson and Darren Drone.
Finalists Announced For The George And Nora London Foundation Competition

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition 2024 finalists have been announced. The finals will be livestreamed on Friday, February 16, at 4:00 pm ET. Tune in to watch the talented performers showcase their skills.
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for Opera Singers Holds its Final Round Next Month

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers, one of the opera world’s oldest and most prestigious competitions, will hold its 52nd event in 2024, with a public final round at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum on Friday, February 16, at 4:00 pm.
Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera to Present A CELEBRATION OF LOVE This Valentine's Day

This year, make Valentine's Day unforgettable with HALO Presents: A Celebration of Love in Charleston, SC.
TOSCA Opens This Weekend at Utah Opera

This week, Utah Opera opens its production of Puccini’s Tosca—one of the most dramatic works in the operatic repertoire, telling the tempestuous tale of a love triangle between a famous singer, a painter, and a corrupt police chief. 
The Metropolitan Opera's Free Summer HD Festival to Return to Lincoln Center

The Met’s popular Summer HD Festival returns on Saturday, August 28, featuring a lineup of ten free encore presentations from the company’s popular Live in HD series, as well as a special pre-festival screening of Susan Froemke’s acclaimed documentary The Opera House.
North Charleston POPS! Presents LOVE ITALIAN STYLE Concert at the North Charleston PAC

The North Charleston POPS! will return to the stage on this Saturday, May 29 for another magical concert, “Love Italian Style”!  The show will celebrate your favorite Italian music and will feature the gorgeous voices of special guests Dimitri Pittas and Leah Edwards.
Utah Opera Announces 2021-22 Season

Utah Opera Artistic Director Christopher McBeth today announced Utah Opera’s 2021-22 season, sponsored by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation. In its upcoming season, Utah Opera presents four full-scale opera productions with live performances at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.
Virtual Theatre This Weekend: January 30-31- with Barrett Foa, Lesli Margherita and More!

Broadway might be dark, but that doesn't mean that theatre isn't happening everywhere! Below, check out where you can get your daily fix of Broadway this weekend, January 30-31, 2020.
The Met Announces Two-Week Schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams Featuring LA TRAVIATA, NORMA & More

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines and an Antiheroes Week.
Virtual Theatre Today: Wednesday, July 22- with Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and More!

Today (July 22) in live streaming:Brian Stokes Mitchell and Joe Benincasa visit Backstage Live, Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal reunite on Stars in the House and so much more!
OPERA America Invites Artists, Administrators and More to A TOAST TO 50 YEARS

OPERA America is inviting artists, administrators, trustees, and audiences to 'A Toast to 50 Years,' a celebration of opera's progress and of OPERA America's 50th Anniversary, taking place today, Friday, May 15, from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. EDT.
BWW Exclusive: 107 Opera Singers, a Conductor plus Tech Magic Bring Some LIGHT from Moravec, Campbell and OPERA America

Here's a look at how 'Light Shall Lift Us; Singers Unite in Song' (for OPERA America), a video project featuring 107 opera singers in “a song of hope and solidarity” by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell, came together to help raise up the spirits of their communities as we deal with COVID-19. It went 'live' on May 14 at 1:30 pm EST.
BWW Interview: Opera Singer Natalya Romaniw Discusses Her Career, New Album and Shutdown Plans

Natalya Romaniw has been called 'the outstanding soprano her generation'. Recent work includes the lead roles in Scottish Opera's Tosca and English National Opera's Madame Butterfly, plus making her BBC Proms debut singing Rachmaninov's The Bells with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. She talks to BroadwayWorld about her remarkable career, upcoming album Arion, and keeping the music going during the shutdown.
Houston Grand Opera Presents R. Strauss's SALOME

R. Strauss's powerful psychodrama Salome returns to Houston Grand Opera for the first time in 20 years in a production directed by Francisco Negrin. The revolutionary score reinvents Oscar Wilde's biblical drama of a deeply disturbed princess who has fallen in love with Jokanaan (John the Baptist). After he denies her, she performs the infamous and seductive a?oeDance of the Seven Veilsa?? for King Herod in exchange for John's head.
Anthony Minghella's Staging of MADAM BUTTERFLY Will Return to the London Coliseum

Anthony Minghella's production of Madam Butterfly returns to the Coliseum. Premiered 15 years ago at English National Opera (ENO) and now onto its seventh revival, this popular production is back to entrance audiences with its mix of stunning cinematic imagery, traditional Japanese theatre and Puccini's powerful music.
Houston Grand Opera Announces Substitution For LA FAVORITE

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) announces that conductor Christophe Rousset withdrew today from the HGO premiere of La favorite due to personal circumstances. HGO Artistic and Music Director Patrick Summers will conduct all five performances. The production runs from Jan. 24 a?" Feb. 9, 2020 at the Wortham Theater Center.
The Metropolitan Opera Issues New Audio Release On iTunes

To commemorate the start of Yannick Nézet-Séguin's new position as the Jeanette Lerman Neubauer Music Director, the Met is releasing an audio compilation of performance highlights on iTunes, as well as a series
George London Foundation For Singers Announces 2018-19 Season

The George London Foundation for Singers has been honoring, supporting, and presenting the finest young opera singers in the U.S. and Canada since 1971. The foundation and the George London Awards (the prize of the foundation's annual competition) are named for the legendary Canadian-American bass-baritone, one of the greatest opera singers of 20th century, who devoted much of his time and energy in his later years to the support and nurturing of young opera singers.

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