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Dutch National Opera 2026-27 Review: Pagliacci / Cavalleria Rusticana

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(Photo: Bart Grietens) Dutch National Opera opened its 2026 season with a double bill centered on infidelity and adultery. Written close together in the late 19th century and later combined into a single evening, both short operas share a foundation of love, betrayal, and honor killings. Their shared history also includes triumphant premieres, set to gorgeous, Puccini-like music that remains {…}
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Q & A: Maria José Siri on Singing 200 Performances of ‘Aida’

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When Maria José Siri sings her performance of “Aida” on Sept. 10, the soprano will have completed 200 performances of the famed Verdi opera. Since 2003, the role has been in Siri’s repertoire. She first sang it in Argentina and would go on to perform it at such major theaters as the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Massimo, Arena di Verona, {…}
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Arena di Verona 2026 Review: Turandot 

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(Photo: Arena di Verona) There are few operatic spectacles more perfectly suited to the Arena di Verona than Franco Zeffirelli’s “Turandot.” Puccini’s final opera demanded, almost from its inception, something larger than life: an imperial court, a condemned prince, a populace intoxicated by bloodlust, an icy princess elevated to quasi-divine status and, above all, the theatrical machinery of fairy tale. {…}
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Maria José Siri to Sing 200th Performance of ‘Aida’ at Arena di Verona

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On Sept. 4 and 10, 2026, Maria José Siri will sing her 200th performance of the title role of “Aida.” The soprano will perform the role at the Arena di Verona, where she has sung for several years. Siri’s journey with “Aida” began in 2003 in Argentina, at the Teatro El Círculo in Rosario and later went on to perform {…}
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Corinne Winters & Raehann Bryce-Davis Lead Ducth National Opera’s ‘Pagliacci’ & ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’

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On Sept. 5, the Dutch National Opera is set to open its 2025-26 season with the double bill “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo and “Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni. The production by Robert Carsen will be revived with Italian conductor Andrea Battistoni leading the two verismo masterpieces. The production will showcase Raehann Bryce-Davis returning to Amsterdam for her role debut as {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayerische Staatsoper 2025-26 Review: Macbeth

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(Photo: Geoffroy Schied) Such an inspired work ought to offer fertile ground for a stage director. Yet Martin Cicvák’s production, now almost two decades old, remains a striking example of Regietheater at its least illuminating. Whatever power it may once have possessed to scandalize has long since dissipated, leaving only a succession of provocations that obscure rather than deepen Shakespeare’s {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Bayerische Staatsoper 2025-26 Reivew: Turandot

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(Photo Credit: Geoffroy Schied) “Turandot” represents Puccini’s final and arguably his greatest operatic achievement. In contrast to his most frequently performed masterpieces – “La Bohème,” “Tosca,” “Madama Butterfly,” and “Manon Lescaut”- it is less reliant on sentimentality. Its orchestral writing is considerably richer and more sophisticated, while its orientalist palette is even more fully realized than that of “Madama Butterfly.” {…}
News, Season Announcement

Danylo Matviienko, Carolina Lopez Moreno, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Erika Grimaldi, Johanni van Oostrum Lead Teatro Regio di Torino’s 2026-27 Season

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The Teatro Regio di Torino has announced its 2026-27 season. The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” with Francesco Micheli directing Leoncavallo and Daniele Menghini directing Mascagni. Leoncavallo’s work will star Carolina Lopez Moreno, Maria Teresa Leva, Martin Muehle, Carlo Ventre, Gregory Kunde, Ariun Ganbaatar, Fabián Veloz, Matteo Mezzaro, Matteo Falcier, Joshua Hopkins, and Rodion Pogossov while {…}
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Saioa Hernández, Maxim Mironov, Nino Machaidze, Nina Minasyan, Lianna Haroutounian & Luca Micheletti Lead Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège’s 2026-27 Season

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The Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Giampaolo Bisanti conducts Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Stefano Poda directing. Luca Micheletti, Ewa Płonka, Ricardo Fassi, and Matteo Desole. Performance Dates: Sept. 18-29, 2026 Ravel’s “L’Heure espagnole” and “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges” will be conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce and directed by Jean-Louis Grinda. The production will star Vincent Ordonneau , {…}

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