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News, Season Announcement

Niamh O’Sullivan, Emma Bell, Michael Mayes, Christine Rice & Nardus Williams Lead English National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with “Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey,” which will be directed by ENO’s Artistic Director Annilese Miskimmon and will star international opera soloists including Golda Schultz, Nardus Williams, Bethany Horak-Hallet, Ailish Tynan, Rainelle Krause, and Filipe Manu. Cleila Cafiero conducts the performance. The concert will be hosted by TV {…}

News, Streaming

Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Luciano Pavarotti & Philip Glass Lead Week 58 & 59 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced its next two weeks of streams, which include a plethora of famed opera stars, modern operas, and classic productions. The company will also showcase the streaming premiere of the 1984 telecast of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra,” starring Sherrill Milnes, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, and Vasile Moldoveanu and the 2000 telecast of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” with Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, {…}

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Cast Change: Miles Mykkanen Joins Cast of ‘Silent Night’ at Houston Grand Opera

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The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has announced a cast change for its production of “Silent Night.” The company said that tenor Miles Mykkanen will perform the lead role of Nikolaus Sprink, replacing tenor Duke Kim, who has withdrawn from the production due to illness. Mykkanen will make his HGO debut in this production following his critically acclaimed turn as Sam {…}

News, Season Announcement

Asmik Grigorian, Yaritza Véliz, Mario Chang, Catherine Foster & Judit Kutasi Lead Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile’s 2026 Season

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The Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile has announced its 2026 season. Opera Puccini’s “La bohème“ will star Yaritza Véliz, Angelina Akhmedova, Michael McDermott, Kameron Lopreore, Camila Romero, Pilar Garrido, Germán Alcántara, Yeongtaek Yang, Javier Weibel, Sergio Gallardo, Matías Moncada, Francisco Salgado, Pedro Alarcón, and Cristián Lorca. Paolo Bortolameolli conducts the production by Cristina Gallardo-Domâs. Performance Dates: May 7-18, 2026 Giordano’s {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Set for 2025 Butler Studio Showcase

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Houston Grand Opera is set to present the 2025 Butler Studio Showcase. The event, set for Sept. 12, 2025, at 7 p.m., will feature selections from such operas as “Don Giovanni,” “Don Carlo,” “Fidelio,” “Cavalleria rusticana,” “The Rake’s Progress,” “Eugene Onegin,” “Die tote Stadt,” and “La traviata.” The performers include Soprano Alissa Goretsky, third-place winner at HGO’s 2024 Concert of {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Reveals 2025-26 Studio Artists

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Houston Grand Opera has announced its 2025-26 Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio Artists. Among the first-year artists are tenor Luka Tsevelidze, who secured second place at HGO’s 2025 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, and baritone Geonho Lee, who claimed both first place and the Audience Choice award. Pianist and coach Tzu Kuang Tan also joins the {…}

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Santa Fe Opera Announces Apprentice Singers

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The Santa Fe Opera has announced the 39 members of its 2025 Apprentice Program for Singers. The roster will include young vocalists from across the USA, Canada, Italy, and South Korea. The class of 2025 was selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants by Program Director Chandler Johnson, Chief Artistic Advisor David Lomelí, and Chorus Director Susanne Sheston through a competitive pre-screening and audition process. In a {…}

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Houston Grand Opera Unveils Lineup for 2024 Butler Studio Showcase

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(Photo credit: Houston Grand Opera) The Sarah and Ernest Butler Houston Grand Opera Studio is set to present its annual Butler Studio Showcase this September. Scheduled for Sept. 13 at the Cullen Theater at the Wortham Theater Center, the showcase will feature members of the 2024-25 class in staged, costumed excerpts from a variety of operatic works. This year’s program {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2024 Review: The Merry Widow

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(Photo © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Tristram Kenton) There was much to fuel the excitement around a brand new production of Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” for Glyndebourne Festival Opera this year. It’s the first time the work has ever been mounted there, and it’s always a treat to see what the slickly-oiled operatic operation, with its six weeks of {…}