(Photo credit: Jean-Louis Fernandez) Works & Process announces its 2026 spring season. This article only features classical vocal concerts. Opera Philadelphia co-presents a preview performance of “Complications in Sue” by Michael R. Jackson. Anthony Roth Costanzo, Justin Vivian Bond, and Zack Winokur are among the cast. Raja Feather Kelly directs and Caren Levine conducts. Performance Date: January 16, 2026 Selections from {…}
The Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires has announces its 2026 season. Opera Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci“ and Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana“ will open the season with a cast that includes Yonghoon Lee, Denis Pivnitsky, Alejandro Roy, María Belén Rivarola, Fabián Veloz, Youngjun Park, Diego Bento, Liudmyla Monastyrska, and Mónica Ferracani. Beatrice Venezi conducts the production by Hugo de Ana. Performance Dates: April 14-24, 2026 Oscar Strasnoy’s “Dementia” will make {…}
The Donizetti Opera Festival has announced has released the final numbers for the 2025 edition. The festival announced that there was an overall attendance at performances of more than 12,200 people, which was about 20 percent higher than in 2023. Added to all this are the attendance figures for the off-festival, with its rich program of more than 30 events, {…}
(Image Source: Wikipedia) Grammy-nominated baritone Jubilant Sykes was fatally stabbed at his home in Santa Monica, California, on Monday evening. He was 71. According to a statement from the Santa Monica Police Department, officers responded to a report of an assault in progress at the Sykes residence, where they found the singer with critical injuries. He was pronounced dead at {…}
Tenor Andrew Morstein has joined the roster of L2 Artists for worldwide management. Morstein is the winner of “Best Male Newcomer” at the Österreichischer MusikTheater Preis Awards in Vienna and has performed at the Salzburg Festival, the Wexford Festival, Theater an der Wien, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Central City Opera, among many others. This season he performs Don {…}
Tri-Cities Opera will celebrate the holiday season with Gian Carlo Menotti’s beloved one-act opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” The work will be presented December 12–14, 2025, at the Tri-Cities Opera Center and will be sung in English lasting approximately 60 minutes with no intermission. John Rozzoni, Tri-Cities Opera General Director, said, “Amahl and the Night Visitors is a timeless {…}
Alexandra Nowakowski has joined Tartiere Artists for General Management in Italy and Spain. The soprano is coming off her Metropolitan Opera debut as Amina in “La Sonnambula,” stepping in for an ailing Nadine Sierra. Nowakowski has performed recitals with the Carnegie Hall Citywide Concerts Series, Vocal Arts DC, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, the Embassy Series, the Marcella Sembrich Opera {…}
(Photo: Guido Werner) Wanderer by name, wanderer by nature, Nils Wanderer is an internationally acclaimed German countertenor, actor and choreographer. He was winner of the 2022 Bundeswettbewerb Gesang and Second Prize Winner of the world’s most prestigious opera competition, Operalia, in the same year. He has been hailed, by Olyrix, for his “beautiful, dark, well developed and amber colored voice {…}
The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is set to join forces with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and Music Director Andris Nelsons to present a concert performance of Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa.” The performance will take place Jan. 8 & 10, 2026 at Symphony Hall with a cast that includes Jennifer Holloway in the title role of Vanessa, Samantha Hankey as Erika, {…}
Austin Opera is set to launch its 2026–27 season with the world premiere of “Ofrenda.” The work by Jorge Sosa and John de los Santos represents the company’s first commissioned work and the inaugural production in the new Butler Performance Center. “Ofrenda” is described as a 90-minute chamber opera, performed in English and Spanish, and developed through Austin Opera’s Residency {…}
(Photo: Fabrizio Sansoni) Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera opened its season with “Lohengrin,” last heard at the Teatro Costanzi a half century ago, in 1975. Once Wagner’s most popular opera in this country, it fell out of favor with the new dogma of presenting operas in their original language. Between 1933 and 1966, it was performed on average every other season. Then {…}