Renée Richardson, Diego Torre, Won Whi Choi & Amanda Batista Lead Minnesota Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. Kylie Kreucher, Kara Morgan, Ángel Vargas, David Wolfe, John Mburu, and Lindsay Ohse star in Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Christopher Franklin conducts the production by Doug Scholz-Carlson. Performance Dates: Nov. 1-9, 2026 B.E. Boykin and Harrison David Rivers’ “My Name is Florence” is set to make its world premiere starring Renée Richardson, {…}

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Metropolitan Opera Announces Semi-Finalists for Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

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(Credit: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has announced the 20 semifinalists who will compete in the semifinal round of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition on March 9, 2025. The semifinal competition will be held on the Met stage before a panel of judges and will also be available for public viewing via livestream. The {…}

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Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

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(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}

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Karen Slack, Lunga Eric Hallam & Jasmine Habersham Lead Minnesota Opera’s 2024-25 Season

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The Minnesota Opera has announced its 2024-25 season. Monét X Change, Jasmine Habersham, Ellie Dehn, Symone Harcum, Adriana Zabala, and Catherine Martin star “Glam Jam: A Star-Studded Benefit Concert.” Christopher Franklin conducts. Performance Date: Sept. 28, 2024 Christopher Franklin conducts Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” with Evan Leroy Johnson, Jasmine Habersham, Adam Lau, Charles H. Eaton, John Mburu, Ángel Vargas, Kara Morgan, Victoria Vargas, and David Wolfe. Performance Dates: Nov. 2-10, 2024 {…}

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Renée Richardson, Diego Torre, Won Whi Choi & Amanda Batista Lead Minnesota Opera’s 2025-26 Season

Metropolitan Opera Announces Semi-Finalists for Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition

Opera Theatre Saint Louis 2024 Review: Julius Caesar

Karen Slack, Lunga Eric Hallam & Jasmine Habersham Lead Minnesota Opera’s 2024-25 Season