Welcome back for this week’s look at the latest CD and DVD releases in the opera world. This week audiences will get to hear a new album by two of bel canto’s greatest stars as well as a new recording ...

On Jan. 13, 2026, tenor Jonathan Tetelman will join guitarist and Yankees legend Bernie Williams for a special Carnegie Hall ...

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The 2025 edition of the Festival International de Musique Saint-Georges will celebrate the 280th anniversary of the ...

National Sawdust’s 10th Anniversary opening season kicked off with Artistic Director/Co-Founder & composer Paola Prestini and librettist Royce Vavrek‘s foley chamber opera world premiere “Silent Light ...

The Bayerische Staatsoper has announced a conductor change for its production of “Die Fledermaus.” The company said, “It is with great regret that we must announce that Zubin Mehta will not be able to ...

Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha” first premiered as a concert read-through in Harlem in 1910, and was not fully staged until 1972, over fifty years after the composer’s death The work, described as “an ...

“La bohème”, as the archetypal verismo opera, tends to resist stagings that take it much beyond the confines of nineteenth-century Paris, and indeed non-naturalistic approaches to the work. (Audiences ...

Soprano Ekaterina Bakanova is a Russian born opera and oratorio singer. Italian by adoption, she famously made her Royal Opera House debut in “La Traviata,” with just a few hours notice, after Sonya ...

Famed mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on Oct. 27, 2025 in a ceremony led by Senator for Arts & Culture, Sarah Wedl-Wilson, on behalf of ...

German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt has died at the age of 51. According to his management Askonas Holt, Vogt, who was diagnosed with cancer in February 2021, died on Sept. 5, 2022 peacefully ...

It’s that time of the year. The end of the year. 2024 brought many debuts, many new productions, many competitions, many world premieres and many new young artists who are coming up in the world of ...