The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) has announced six new appointments, including sopranos Amanda Roocroft and Anna Devin as Professors of Voice. Additionally, Anne Le Bozec and Joseph Middleton join as International Visiting Professors of Piano (Collaborative), Richard Stokes joins the School of Vocal Studies and Opera as a guest tutor, and German pianist Uta Weyand joins as International {…}
YPC National will present its 2026 Summer Choral Intensive from July 22 to July 25 in New York City. The intensive will bring together more than 200 young choristers and over 30 conductors, music educators, and university level music students. The program features two public performances, including “Amistat y Canción: An Evening with the Young People’s Chorus of New York {…}
OPERA America has announced the recipients of its 2026 Commissioning Grants from its Opera Grants for Women Composers program. The grants which total $135,000 will promote the development of new work by women-identifying composers and bring visibility to women composers across the field. Funds up to $50,000 support the composer’s commissioning fee for a full production of a new opera. {…}
Hopewell Festival will present its inaugural concert on August 16, 2026, at Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington, New Jersey. The concert, “Celebration of Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song,” will feature soprano Latonia Moore with The Guy Mintus Trio, presented in partnership with New York City Opera’s Bryant Park concert series. The program will explore music associated with Fitzgerald and {…}
Opera Carolina has unveiled its 2026-27 season. The company’s 77th season opens with Mozart’s “Requiem” at the Knight Theater, presented in partnership with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Charlotte Master Chorale. The performance commemorates the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Performance Date: Sept. 11, 2026 The company then presents Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Medium” at the Halton Theater, {…}
(Credit: Tommi – PHOTOGRAPHER) On July 15, ORF Drei is set to broadcast Oper im Steinbruch’s new production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” The production will star Joyce El-Khoury in the title role of Tosca alongside Yongzhao Yu as Cavaradossi and Gevorg Hakobyan as Scarpia. The cast is rounded out by Thaddeus Strassberger directs the new production by Valerio Galli. Th production, {…}
On July 15, Mezzo.TV is set to broadcast Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” from the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège. The recording, which was made on April 18, 2026, was directed by Frédéric Caillierez. Giampaolo Bisanti conducts the production by Jean-Louis Grinda. Jessica Pratt stars in the title role of Lucrezia Borgia alongside Dmitry Korchak as Gennaro, Marko Mimica as Alfonso D’Este, and Julie {…}
The Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts has announced its 2026-2027 season of intimate Rosen House Concert Series. The concerts will be held between October 2026 and May 2027. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Nobuntu, the internationally acclaimed female a cappella quartet from Zimbabwe perform traditional Zimbabwean songs to Afro-Jazz and Gospel. Performance Date: Oct. 2, 2026 {…}
The Teatro Goldoni di Livorno has announced its 2026-27 season. Anna Caterina Antonacci, Penelope Kendros, Erica Zulikha Benato, Margherita Sala, Anita Montserrat, Valentina Coletti, and Enea Scala star in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Attilio Cremonesi conducts the production by Francesco Bondì. Performance Dates: Nov. 6 & 8, 2026 Cherubini’s “L’Adriano in Siria” will be directed by Massimo Gasparon Pizzi Contarini {…}
The Northwest Mahler Festival will showcase a collaboration of two acclaimed Armenian-American artists on August 1, 2026. The concert will showcase Music Director Tigran Arakelyan leading the festival orchestra in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at the Shorewood Performing Arts Center with mezzo-soprano Laurel Semerdjian alongside the Northwest Boychoir (Artistic Director Jacob Winkler) and a Women’s Chorus (Artistic Director Beth {…}
The Götz Friedrich Prize has announced the two winners of the 2025-6 season. Giulia Giammona won for her production of “Cardillac” at the Staatstheater Meiningen while Elena Maria Artisi won for her production of “Lucia di Lammemoor” at Theater Altenburg. The jury decided, for the first time, to award two prizes “in light of two equally compelling productions,” the Deutsche {…}