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Sony Classical Announces Jonas Kaufmann Puccini: Love Affairs

Sony Classical has announced Jonas Kaufmann's new album 'Puccini: Love Affairs,' featuring six of Puccini's greatest duets and scenes, each performed with a different soprano. Release date: September 13.
Verbier Festival Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Momentous Season And Deutsche Grammophon Imprint, July 14-30

Founded 30 years ago by Martin Engstroem, at the end of a dead-end road in the mountains of Switzerland, Verbier Festival is a classical music festival committed to excellence in music performance and education through its highly respected artistic programme, its Academy and Orchestra programs, and UNLTD, its cultural engagement laboratory.
Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma & Wynton Marsalis to be Featured in Verbier Festival 30th Anniversary

Verbier Festival has revealed its 30th anniversary season. Learn how to purchase tickets!
Christopher Wheeldon's LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE to be Released on Royal Opera House Stream

Like Water for Chocolate will be released on Royal Opera House Stream. This critically acclaimed production is Christopher Wheeldon’s latest full-length work for The Royal Ballet, inspired by Laura Esquivel’s novel of the same name, and will be available to watch on ROH Stream from Thursday 18 May 2023. 
The Best Of Royal Opera House Stream Will Kick off 2023

This New Year, the Royal Opera House will add six new performances to Royal Opera House Stream for audiences around the world to enjoy: The Cellist, Romeo and Juliet and Sylvia from The Royal Ballet; and La traviata, Fidelio and Madama Butterfly from The Royal Opera.
MADAMA BUTTERFLY Opens Royal Opera House Cinema Season 2022/23

The Royal Opera House has announced that it will commence its 2022/23 Cinema Season with Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production of Madama Butterfly, broadcast live on Tuesday 27 September 2022 to over 850 cinemas in 26 countries around the world. Encore screenings will run from Sunday 2 October 2022. 
Wiener Staatsoper Announces Upcoming Events

Wir freuen uns, Sie darüber zu informieren, dass heute, am 1. September um 10.00 Uhr, der Vorverkauf für alle Vorstellungen im November startet. Sie können die Karten an all unseren Vorverkaufsstellen und selbstverständlich auch online erwerben.
Summer Movies at Sarasota Opera House Will Begin in May

Sarasota Opera has announced the lineup for the 2022 summer movie series: HD at the Opera House and Classic Movies at the Opera House. HD at the Opera House featuring filmed performances of opera and ballet from around the world will open on Sunday, May 22nd at 1:30 p.m. with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, with tickets at $22, and $20 for Sarasota Opera subscribers.
BWW Review: LA BOHEME Returns to The MET

Puccini's 'La Boheme,' returned for its second run of the season this week and cast and conductor delivered the goods. There's nothing to say that has not already been said about La Boheme as an opera and the famous Zeffirelli production, so we won't dwell on it.
Puccini's LA BOHEME Returns to the Met Stage Next Week

South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim, who became music director of San Francisco Opera this fall, will make her Met debut leading Puccini’s La Bohème November 9, marking the first of five female conductors to take the Met podium this season—the most in Met history. 
BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens

In the video, Gallup/Na'nízhoozhí, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davone Tines sing music by Matthew Aucoin written to poetry by Jake Skeets. Lowe and Skeets are both Navajo artists. Skeets, who grew up in Gallup, gives his hometown a leading role in his poetry. Lowe's film is an unflinching yet tender portrait of the city in 2021.
Greek National Opera Presents NEMICO DELLA PATRIA

Greek National Opera presents the Andrea Chenier aria 'Nemico della patria' performed by the internationally acclaimed barytone of the GNO Dimitri Platanias.
Greek National Opera Presents ANDREA CHENIER on GNO TV

The first production of the Greek National Opera’s tribute programme to the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution comes to GNO TV from 31/3 to 31/7.
Date Announced For International Opera Awards 2021

The International Opera Awards has today announced the date of its 2021 Awards, taking place as an online event on Monday 10 May.
Greek National Opera Announces 2021 Lineup

The Greek National Opera has announced its 2021 lineup, a tribute programme to the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821, which is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
The Met Cancels 2020-21 Opera Season, Announces Premieres for 2021-22

The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the ongoing health crisis has resulted in the cancellation of the entire 2020-21 season, but the company also announced ambitious artistic plans for its 2021-22 season, which will open with the Met premiere of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
BWW Feature: OPERA PERFORMANCES ONLINE May 1-7 at Computer Screens

Now that the Metropolitan Opera has had a major success with its At-Home Gala, there are other opera companies with similar ideas. The Florence May Festival, (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino), will offer its presentation on Friday, May 1, 2020, at noon. P.D.T. Since many opera lovers are working from home, the audience should be enormous. 
Finalists Announced for International Opera Awards 2020

The International Opera Awards today announced the finalists for its 2020 Awards [Wednesday 5 February 2020]. The annual red-carpet event - which celebrates achievement in opera around the globe over the 2019 calendar year - recognises excellence in a wide range of categories that cover performance, design and direction as well as education and outreach.
San Francisco Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock Announces 2020â€"21 Season Repertory And Casting

San Francisco Opera General Director Matthew Shilvock today announced the Company's 98th season, which opens on September 11, 2020 with an Opening Night Celebration featuring soprano Albina Shagimuratova and tenor Pene Pati in concert with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Music Director Designate Eun Sun Kim. Opening Night festivities include San Francisco Opera Guild's Opera Ball, BRAVO! CLUB's annual Opening Night Gala and two new events: the Opera Supper in the Veterans Building's elegant Green Room and, for the entire audience, a celebratory, post-concert toast to the season.
VIDEO: Get A First Look At LA BOHEME at The Met Opera

Three casts of captivating artists bring Puccini's classic tragedy of bohemian friends and lovers to life in Franco Zeffirelli's immortal staging. Tenors Matthew Polenzani, Roberto Alagna, and Joseph Calleja trade off as the exuberant Rodolfo, alongside sopranos Ailyn Pérez, Hei-Kyung Hong, and Maria Agresta as the fragile Mimì. Marco Armiliato and Emmanuel Villaume share conducting duties.

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