Opera News

Ecstatic ... Joyce DiDonato as Elena in the Royal Opera House's La Donna del Lago.

John Caird and Placido Domingo bring the violence of Puccini's Tosca to the fore in a blood-soaked new production, reports Stephen Pritchard from Los Angeles Placido Domingo should know his way around Puccini's Tosca: he first performed in it as a boy, tolling the bells for mass in Act One.

Carnegie Hall salutes Vienna's extraordinary artistic legacy with Vienna: City of Dreams , a three-week citywide festival during February and March 2014 that features symphonic and operatic masterpieces, chamber music, and lieder, as well as a sampling of new sounds that are emerging from this historic cultural capital.

THE Bristol Light Opera Club was formed in 1933 by music enthusiasts with an aim to produce light opera to the highest standard.

The selection of a dynamic, still youthful but already widely experienced conductor as the Boston Symphony's next music director has major, positive implications not only for the orchestra but also for its annual summer residency at Tanglewood.

A few days before she creates another moment at Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald says yes, she can remember some of the earlier ones.

For folksinger Sandy Cash, 'to be an actress on the Hebrew stage' is a dream come true, as she portrays Anna in the Israel Musicals and Jest production of 'The King and I.' For many Anglo-Israelis, Sandy Cash's leading role as Anna in the current Israel Musicals and Jest production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein music The King and I may come as ... (more)

Prepare to be wowed: the English Touring Opera is going all out and performing three separate operas , in less than a week at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.

This was a vintage year for the Fort Worth Opera. The festival season in Bass Hall, with one production in smaller McDavid Studio, included two undeniable hits, one gripping drama and no certifiable flops.

The coming months will bring the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten.

The internationally known arts festival, founded by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, will open its 37th season Friday with the traditional speeches, brass fanfare and shower of confetti on the steps of Charleston City Hall.

Even with one of the world's most athletic opera singers at her side and plenty of practice, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato reckons the latest London production of Gioachino Rossini's "La Donna Del Lago" is the challenge of a lifetime.

The Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Mass is presenting a special appearance by one of the world's most revered contemporary Tibetan performers on Sunday May 26 at 7 p.m. at 37 Main Street.

Superstar soprano Kathleen Battle brings her "Underground Railroad" program back to the Music Center at Strathmore .

Frederic and Mabel in the North Shore Light Opera Society's version of the late-1800s classic The Pirates of Penzance.

Indianapolis Opera's truncated 2012/2013 season featured only three productions - one of which was actually an IU Opera presentation.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty For the first time Ukrainian musician received the most prestigious music award in the world from the British Royal Philharmonic Society This is the highest award in Britain in the sphere of classical music performance, a kind of musical ... (more)

The Summer 2013 season of the San Francisco Opera begins next month on Wednesday, June 5, and will continue through Sunday, July 7. As usual, the season will offer three operas.

The televised extravaganza, with an audience of 125 million worldwide, is now in its 58th year.

OPERA aficionados can look forward to a summer performance of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of Goldsmiths' six-week summer music festival, PureGold.