Brenden Gunnell is standing at the threshold of one of opera’s greatest challenges: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” After ...

The inaugural Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest has announced its 2026 winners following the competition on July 11, 2026 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. This year, the first prize winner was New Zealand countertenor ...

Riccardo Frizza, the Musical Director and Artistic Director of the Bergamo Donizetti Opera Festival and Honorary Conductor of ...

This week, the Santa Fe Opera is set to open a revival production of “Eugene Onegin” with a cast of rising stars. Among these is Mattia Olivieri, who will sing the title role. The Italian baritone ...

The LIFE Victoria Cicle de Lied Victoria de los Ángeles has announced its 2026-27 season, titled “L’exili” (Exile), dedicated to the memory of soprano Felicity Lott and commemorating the 150th ...

OPERA America has announced the recipients of its 2026 National Opera Trustee Recognition Awards. The 2026 honorees for U.S. companies are Thérèse Esperdy of Heartbeat Opera, Robyn Marie Lamp of ...

There are operas that survive on the strength of their plot, and then there are those that survive because the music transforms the improbable into the inevitable. “Samson et Dalila” belongs decidedly ...

Soprano Mariana Poltorak is set to present a recital at the 22nd Festival of Polish Music in Kraków. The “Acroama Magistrorum” master recital series at the Aula Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian ...

To speak of Austria as the land of music could be dismissed as a media cliché, a postcard trope engineered for cultural tourism. Yet, experiencing the Styriarte Festival shatters this skepticism ...

Nwando Ebizie’s new opera “Ecstasy of the Virtues” will get its world premiere at Mahogany Opera on Sept. 25 in London. “Ecstasy of the Virtues” is inspired by Hildegard’s “Ordo Virtutum.” Ebizie ...

The Teatro Goldoni di Livorno has announced its 2026-27 season. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Penelope Kendros, Erica Zulikha Benato, Margherita Sala, Anita Montserrat, Valentina Coletti, and Enea Scala ...

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) has expanded his investigation into the mismanagement of the Kennedy Center. The senator ...