Review | Die Walküre, Turandot & Macbeth at Munich Opera Festival
Few opera houses today can rival Bayerische Staatsoper for the consistency of its musical standards. Within the span of a single season, one can encounter…
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Review | The Women Who Knew Too Much: Lepage’s Bluebeard’s Castle/Erwartung returns to COC
On the opening night of the Canadian Opera Company’s pairing of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts…
Newswire | The Metropolitan Opera Announces 2026-27 Season Including Five New Productions
New York, NY (February 19, 2026)—The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2026–27 season, featuring five new and 12 repertory productions, a special 60th-anniversary gala, and performances…
Review | Vocally Uneven, Helter Skelter Don Carlos in Paris
Deservedly, Don Carlos (1867) enjoys a reputation as one of Verdi’s finest operas, rivaled only by his two final works, Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).…
COC’s 2025/2026 Season Blends Iconic Operas With Bold New Visions
Toronto – The Canadian Opera Company has announced its 2025/2026 season today featuring bold new productions, blockbuster audience favourites, and landmark works from two of Canada’s leading creative visionaries.…
Newswire | Met Opera Announces First-Ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour
The Metropolitan Opera announced today its first-ever Met Orchestra Asia Tour this summer, June 19–30, immediately following its annual June residency at Carnegie Hall.
Review | Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Met – Strong Vocals, Overblown Production
One of opera’s masterful stories of star-crossed love was recently re-imagined in the American Rust Belt. On Saturday, May 21st, this season’s final performance of…
Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O18: The Whirlwind That Was
REVIEW: of Opera Philadelphia’s “Festival O18” (September 20-30, 2018) – a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, composed by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Salvadore…
Richard Tucker Music Foundation Names Christian Van Horn as Winner of 2018 Richard Tucker Award
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation announced today that Christian Van Horn – “one of those treasurable singers in whose presence one can entirely relax, assured that everything he does…
Last Supper: Thomas Adès Serves Up After-Dinner Mayhem in The Exterminating Angel
REVIEW: of Thomas Adès’s new opera The Exterminating Angel, viewed in live HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, November 18, 2017. Guess who’s coming dinner…
