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The Metropolitan Opera Reveals 2025-26 Season Featuring Met Premieres and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 19, 2025

The Metropolitan Opera has revealed its 2025–26 season, the company’s 142nd year, featuring six new productions—three of which are Met premieres—and 12 revivals. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Music Director James Conlon To Depart LA Opera After 20 Years; 40th Anniversary Season Lineup Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 12, 2025

LA Opera has announced details for the company's 40th anniversary season, which will launch on September 20, 2025. In his 20th season with the company—his final season as Music Director before becoming Conductor Laureate—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 Dalia Stasevska.

LA TRAVIATA, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO And More Come To Atlanta Opera for 2025-26 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 5, 2025

The Atlanta Opera will embark on its 46th season in 2025-26. The season's six productions are themed to twilight and transformation, as exemplified by Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & Artistic Director.

Des Moines Metro Opera Reveals Cast Updates for Debussy's PELLEAS & MELISANDE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 22, 2024

Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed cast updates for Debussy's PELLÉAS & MÉLISANDE, featuring new performers in key roles. Learn how to purchase tickets!

Interview: Playwright Sarah Ruhl chats about adapting EURYDICE Into a Libretto
by R. Scott Reedy - Mar 2, 2024

By telephone recently from a Buddhist retreat in Dublin, Ireland, Ruhl spoke about “Eurydice” and more.

Review: When Akhmetshina's CARMEN Is On Stage at The Met, Don't Fence Her In
by Richard Sasanow - Jan 6, 2024

Sometimes you hear a singer who embodies a role so completely that it’s hard to imagine her in anything else. That’s how I felt about the wonderful mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina, who’s singing the title role in the Met’s new production of Bizet’s CARMEN, which I saw at its second performance. Her portrayal was as full-bodied as her voice and she sizzled, filling up the stage as much as one can imagine. It’s little surprise that she’s considered the Carmen of the moment, having appeared in seven other productions (with two to come).

PELLEAS & MELISANDE Comes to Des Moines Metro Opera Next Year
by Stephi Wild - Aug 22, 2023

PELLÉAS & MÉLISANDE comes to Des Moines Metro Opera next year! The opera is by Claude Debussy, adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Performances run July 6, 12, 17, 21 at Blank Performing Arts Center. It will be sung in French with English supertitles.

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE, SALOME & More Set for Des Moines Metro Opera 2024 Festival Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 30, 2023

Des Moines Metro Opera’s complete repertory for the company’s 2024 Festival Season has been revealed.

Julie Taymor's Family-Friendly THE MAGIC FLUTE to Kick Off The Metropolitan Opera Holiday Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 5, 2022

The Metropolitan Opera’s annual holiday presentation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute will return for nine performances, starting December 16. A holiday treat for audiences of all ages, this English-language adaptation runs under two hours, with special ticket prices starting from $35.

The Academy Of Vocal Arts to Present Verdi's LA TRAVIATA in November
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 31, 2022

The Academy of Vocal Arts will open its 88th opera season with Verdi's La traviata. Performances will be held in Center City, the Main Line and the Lehigh Valley November 11-29, 2022.

Conductor James Gaffigan Announces 2022-2023 Season Highlights
by Stephi Wild - Aug 3, 2022

Recognized worldwide for his natural ease and extraordinary collaborative spirit, American conductor James Gaffigan has attracted international attention for his equitable prowess as both a conductor of symphony orchestras and opera. With numerous appointments and guest engagements throughout Europe and North America, Gaffigan is known for empowering and nurturing artists and ensembles to cultivate the highest art possible.

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Des Moines Metro Opera
by DC Felton - Jul 13, 2022

Starting a theatre company is no easy feat, but for a theatre to be around for 50 years is something worth celebrating. You can celebrate 50 years with Des Moines Metro Opera this summer, which just opened up its 50th season with two spectacular productions. The season opened up a sold-out run of The Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' with Simon Estes in his farewell performance. I've heard excellent things about the production. The opera continued its opening weekend with 'The Voice' finalist John Holiday in Benjamin Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' based on the Shakespeare play by the same name.

The Metropolitan Opera Announces 2022�"23 Season, Featuring Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 23, 2022

The Metropolitan Opera today announced its 2022–23 season, which features seven new productions, the most in ten seasons. Opening Night is September 27 with the company premiere of Cherubini’s Medea, starring soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role alongside tenor Matthew Polenzani in David McVicar’s new staging, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

LA Opera Announces Details Of 2022/23 Season
by Stephi Wild - Feb 7, 2022

Music Director James Conlon will conduct three mainstage productions and Colombian-American conductor Lina González-Granados will make her company debut as Resident Conductor, the first Latina to hold a high-ranking conducting position with a major U.S. opera company. 

Des Moines Metro Opera Announces 50th Anniversary Season And $15 Million Endowment Campaign
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 22, 2021

Des Moines Metro Opera's General and Artistic Director Michael Egel announced today the repertory for the company's 50th Anniversary Season alongside the launch of the public phase of a $15 million fundraising campaign, 50 Next: Giving Voice to the Future.

BWW Review: Des Moines' MANON Is a Welcome Journey Taken From Your Own Couch
by DC Felton - Jun 30, 2020

Opera companies worldwide have found themselves canceling their seasons, including Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO).  The difference with DMMO is that they have had an Emmy winning partnership with Iowa Public Television, now called Iowa Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), coming together to give you the best seats in the house with a virtual season, starting June 28 with their Emmy-winning MANON by Massenet.  

Virtual Theatre Today: Friday, June 19- The Antonyo Awards, PETER PAN LIVE! and More!
by Nicole Rosky - Jun 19, 2020

Today (June 19) in live streaming: the first ever Antonyo Awards, Peter Pan Live! and so much more!

BWW Feature: FREE ONLINE OPERA/RECITAL JUNE 19-26 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Jun 19, 2020

Currently, on the Los Angeles Opera website you can hear Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville.' Music Director James Conlon conducts baritone Rodion Pogossov as Figaro, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong as Rosina, and tenor René Barbera as Count Almaviva.

LAO At Home Events Announced for the Week Of June 15
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 13, 2020

During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO At Home.

Des Moines Metro Opera Announces Broadcast Of Four Operas Through Virtual Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 11, 2020

Following the cancellation of the 2020 Festival Season, Des Moines Metro Opera and Iowa PBS have formed a unique partnership to bring the opera season into a digital format with online streams and televised broadcasts of four fan-favorite productions.