CLASSICAL MUSIC OPERA NEWS COVERAGE - PAGE 2

Watch as Lise Davidsen sings an excerpt from Leonora’s Act II aria in an early dress rehearsal of La Forza del Destino in an all-new video....

The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2024/2025 season with exciting programming comprised almost entirely of new-to-Toronto productions including the first-ever COC staging of Verdi’s Nabucco, the world premiere of a new production of Gounod’s Faust, and the Toronto premiere ...

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets....

LA Opera's Richard Seaver Music Director, James Conlon explores 'The Dwarf' - the story, its history, and of course, the music. Watch this all-new video to learn even more about this stunning opera....

The Musicians' Union (MU) has reached an agreement with English National Opera (ENO). As a result, all planned strike and action short of strike by MU members in the orchestra at ENO have been cancelled. Learn more about the agreement here!...

What did our critic think of THE ANONYMOUS LOVER at Boston Lyric Opera?...

Rehearsals are underway for Mariusz Treliński’s new production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, which opens the Met's spring season on February 26. Get a first look at the cast in the room....

Soprano Jane Archibald, who playes Vixen, shares '3 Things To Know' about the unforgettable production of Janáček's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN. ...

Watch as director Kaneza Schaal talks about about LA Opera's new production of William Grant Still's Highway 1, USA performing  as the first part of an operatic double bill with Alexander Zemlinsky's The Dwarf. Feb. 24 to Mar. 17. ...

Preview Opera Philadelphia's upcoming American Premiere of The Listeners, the newest opera from the Philadelphia-born, Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek. ...

What did our critic think of VOICE OF NATURE: THE ANTHROPOCENE at Symphony Hall? With her sold-out Celebrity Series of Boston performance this past Sunday at Symphony Hall, Renée Fleming offered a splendid reminder, although none is needed, of why she is widely considered to be the preeminent Americ...

Watch as ahead of the premiere of his new production of La Forza del Destino, director Mariusz Treliński shares his interpretation of Verdi’s fateful drama. ...

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including Cosi fan tutte, running March 8th through 30th, 2025. Watch a video preview of the production below!...

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 has just announced its 2024/25 season, which includes Madame Butterfly, running September 21st through October 13th. Watch the video preview of the production here!...

LA Opera has announced its 2024/25 season, including AINADAMAR: THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, which runs from April 26th through May 18th. Watch a preview of the production here!...

LA Opera has just announced its 2024/25 season, including a production of Rigletto, starring Quinn Kelsey. Watch a video preview of the production here!...

Christian Thielemann conducts the second opera in Wagner‘s Ring cycle, “Die Walküre,” a moving epic about a family in conflict. The Berlin State Opera production features baritone Michael Volle as Wotan and soprano Anja Kampe as Brünnhilde. Watch the excerpt from Carnegie Hall+ here!...

Enjoy a first look at the 'mind-bending' new production of Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI, on now at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts!​​​​​​​...

Learn how The Royal Opera created a climate-conscious production of Rusalka in this all-new video. The Royal Opera worked towards Green Book standards in The Royal Opera's recent production of Rusalka - a modern interpretation of Dvořák's magical story. ...

Audra McDonald has (at least) four voices--Broadway, jazz, opera, blues--not to mention six Tonys. She brought them all (the voices, not the awards) to her two hour concert with the National Symphony Pops which repeats Wednesday evening, January 31. ...

Watch as During intermission of the Live in HD transmission of Bizet’s Carmen, host Matthew Polenzani speaks with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina about her experience singing the title role. ...

Watch as The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble rehearses the first movement from Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 24a, ahead of their concert at Carnegie Hall. ...

The music of Terence Blanchard has returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago with his first opera: Champion, an 'opera in jazz' inspired by the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who threw a fatal punch in the boxing ring in 1962. Get a first look at the p...

Watch Canadian-born soprano Jane Archibald discuss the process of bringing the character of Vixen (Sharp Ears) to life on stage in Janáček's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN in the video here!...

Take a look behind the scenes of 'La Bohème' and meet the talented cast, crew, artists, and technicians bringing The Atlanta Opera's production of Puccini's classic to life. Watch the video here!...

Gabriella Reyes, Nicaraguan-American soprano who is currently taking the role of Mimì in The Atlanta Opera production of La Bohème to new heights sat down with the Director of The Atlanta Opera Film Studio, Felipe Barral, for a conversation in Spanish about her life, career, and taking on Puccini's ...

Journey into the woods this winter with Janáček's THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN! Canadian soprano and COC favourite Jane Archibald stars as the clever fox, Sharp Ears, while COC Music Director Johannes Debus leads the COC Orchestra through Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s lush score. ...

Watch as conductor Jorge Parodi talks about bringing Frida, Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s love letter to Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo, to Opera Orlando....

Watch as John de los Santos talks about bringing Frida to Opera Orlando. Opera Orlando continues its 2023-24 All for Art season On the MainStage this January with Frida, Robert Xavier Rodriguez’s love letter to Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahlo....

Watch an all new trailer for English director Carrie Cracknell's Met debut with a new modern-day staging of Carmen, one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works....

Joined by the National Symphony Orchestra, world-renowned tenor Anthony Kearns will sing the tenor role in 'You Raise Me Up - The Songs and Stories of Brendan Graham' at the National Concert Hall in Dublin....

North Carolina Opera presents Rossini's THE BARBER OF SEVILLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION Friday, February 2, 2024 at 7:30PM Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 2:00PM Raleigh Memorial Auditorium Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts. ...

Watch Brian Cho, collaborative pianist and coach with the COC’s Ensemble Studio, as he walks through some key musical features of THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN—accompanied by examples of the unique soundscape Janáček created to animate his cast of unforgettable characters. ...

Meet the cast of The Lyric Opera of Chicago's CINDERELLA — onstage January 21 through February 10 starring Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Jack Swanson, Alessandro Corbelli, Joshua Hopkins, Nicholas Newton, Teresa Castillo, and Sophia Maekawa in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's iconic production. ...

Watch as Cecilia Violetta Lopez talks about taking on FRIDA at Opera Orlando....

Washington National Opera will present the 11th season of American Opera Initiative (AOI), an acclaimed initiative to commission and present new American operas, on January 19, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. T...

Pittsburgh Opera continues its 2023–24 Season with Iphigénie en Tauride. Composed in 1779 by Christoph Willibald Gluck, and based on Euripides’ great Greek drama Iphigenia in Tauris, it is the powerful Trojan War-era tale of a sister whose duty requires that she kill a man who turns out to be her br...

Soprano Lise Davidsen will make her role debut as the noble Leonora in Mariusz Treliński’s new production of Verdi's fateful drama, conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin this February. Watch a teaser for the production here!...

Watch Angel Blue speak with mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina about her portrayal of the title role of Bizet’s Carmen below!...