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Des Moines Metro Opera has announced its 2025 Festival Season, featuring extended and new artistic partnerships.

Opera Saratoga will present Mozart's comic opera COSÌ FAN TUTTE at Universal Preservation Hall. Learn how to purchase tickets.

This is my very first time at the Polish National Opera and as we all know, first times can be overrated. This is certainly not the case here.

R.B. Schlather and Hudson Hall will present GIULIO CESARE in Spring 2025, the second installment in their series of Handel operas designed to be accessible to the public.

Madison Opera's annual Opera in the Park returns on July 20, featuring performances by the Madison Opera Chorus and Madison Symphony Orchestra in a beautiful outdoor setting.

This restaging of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR is a fitting tribute to Cape Town Opera's 25 years of artistic excellence. Under Gobbato's direction, the production not only honours the company’s past but also looks forward to its future, showcasing the enduring power of opera to move and inspire.

OperaUpClose has announced its new programme of reinventions; a series of one-act operas by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss reimagined for the modern world.

The Santa Fe Opera will present its 19th world premiere, featuring an all-star cast and the work of composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has opened an utterly glorious production of his opera, Galileo Galilei. It reconfirms OTSL’s place among the finest opera companies in the world. And it will assuredly help you resolve your issues with Phillip Glass.

Experience history with the first-ever opera performance aboard the Italian Navy's Giuseppe Garibaldi aircraft carrier, featuring Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' in the Gulf of La Spezia on June 22-23, marking 100 years since the composer's death.

Regina Opera will present a free outdoor concert on July 10, featuring a selection of popular opera arias and duets. The event offers a chance to enjoy live music in an al fresco setting.

About halfway into her two-hour plus recital with tenor Joshua Guerrero, soprano Andrea Carroll gave a well-earned compliment to their accompanist Stephen Hopkins for his technique and versatility. Both were challenged during the unusually varied program the two singers had fashioned.

There was a buzz in the lobby of the opera house and scalpers galore outside the doors to the ticket office for soprano Asmik Grigorian’s recent sell-out concert at the Vienna State Opera. Clearly, it was a night that the audience was waiting for--this first recital at the house by soprano Grigorian, one of today's great international stars.

Des Moines Metro Opera has revealed a new director for their upcoming production of Strauss's SALOME, ensuring a fresh vision for the classic opera.

The Bayerische Staatsoper will host the International Opera Awards 2024, celebrating excellence in opera with performances, awards, and industry recognition.

Handel's 'Julius Caesar' opens at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Teatro Grattacielo will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a gala concert featuring rare Italian Verismo operatic works, showcasing talents like conductor Abdiel Vázquez and various accomplished vocalists. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Get a first look at Opera Theatre of St. Louis' production of La Bohéme, now on stage through June 30th 2024. Check out the cast in action in this all-new video.

 The Kosciuszko Foundation has announced the return of the Marcella Sembrich International Voice Competition.

I couldn’t help but wondering whether the scheduling last week of two recent productions at the Vienna State Opera, Claus Guth’s TURANDOT and Cyril Teste’s SALOME, on subsequent nights had anything more than the availability of the stars behind it. After all, both portrayed the title characters as abused women scarred by powerful men—not exactly the business-as-usual for these works by Puccini and Strauss, respectively—in pared-down productions that hearkened to the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, as well as to #MeToo.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced repertory and celebrations for a landmark 50th season in 2025, celebrating five decades of artistic innovation and discovery since the company’s founding in 1976. The 2025 Festival Season opens on May 24, 2025, with Johann Strauss II’s effervescent Die Fledermaus, which has not been seen at Opera Theatre since 1989. The season continues with the company’s 44th world premiere, This House, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber. Next, Opera Theatre will present an all-new staging of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale — the very first opera that the company ever performed. Britten’s enchanting adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream rounds out the season. In addition to four mainstage productions, Opera Theatre will continue to present the annual young artist showcase, Center Stage. This concert shines a spotlight on the members of OTSL’s highly selective Young Artist Programs, accompanied onstage by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, which has served as OTSL’s Festival Season orchestra since 1978.

Perhaps it’s only fitting in a town that’s known for art, music and psychoanalysis (and maybe a little whipped cream on the side), that the Vienna State Opera’s production of Puccini’s TURANDOT—with the stunning soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role—features a traumatized characterization of the title role, with the fine Russian tenor Ivan Gyngazov as Calaf.

Scottish Opera has unveiled its 2024/25 Season, which features 13 opera offerings. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

You'll fall in love with Puccini yet again. Opera Theatre of St. Louis continues their forty-ninth season with a superb production of Puccini’s masterpiece, La Bohème—his most beloved work.  The occasional sprinkle of very light rain seemed to refresh rather than deter those dining on the lovely grounds.  Again the theatre was packed to the rafters with eager opera lovers.  They were not disappointed.

Cincinnati Opera will host Opera in the Park on Sunday, June 9, featuring performances by the Cincinnati Opera Chorus and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at Washington Park. Learn how to attend.