(Photo: ©2025 Chris Lee) Conductor and Lerman-Newbauer Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra at NYC’s Carnegie Hall for a special night featuring Richard Strauss works on Thursday, June 12, 2025, showcasing one of the world’s leading lyric-dramatic sopranos, Elza van den Heever, who just concluded her season of performances as Salome at Met Opera. The night was full of standing {…}
Opera Roanoke will celebrate its 50th anniversary with “Love and Sacrifice: A Tribute to the Heart of Opera Roanoke.” The showcase, set for Sept. 21, 2025, will also celebrate the final performances with the company for Artistic Director Steven White, who is stepping down after over two decades at the helm. White took over the position in 1999 and has {…}
The Choral Society of the Hamptons will present “Homes from the Heart” on June 29, 2025, at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. The ensemble will be joined by the CSH String Quartet and pianist Jeremy Robbin Lyons. The soloists on the program include Amy Justman, Heather Jones, Jason Weisinger, and Joseph Beutel. The showcase will feature the New York Premiere of {…}
Marcus Shields’ “Very Feral Today” will take the stage at Gallery 311 in New York City starting on June 21, 2025. The interdisciplinary performance piece conceived and produced by Shields is part concert, part documentary, and part theatrical ritual. The 70-minute program for soprano and cello explores a wide range of themes, including personal memory, grief, desire, and private history. {…}
Australia’s Operantics has unveiled its upcoming 2025 slate. First up is “No Charm Equal,” which creates a soundscape of Jane Austen’s drawing room, featuring several parlour songs and opera excerpts popular during Georgian England. Performance Dates: July 10 (Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney) and July 13 (Philips Hall, Blackheath), 2025 The company is then set to present “A Certain Slant of Light,” {…}
Americas Society is teaming up with La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York City to present “Euridice, una sombra.” The U.S. premiere features Gluck’s iconic work presented through the lens of tango. The reimagined version is set in a Buenos Aires tango club in the early 20th century and is scored for tango quartet. The arias are reorchestrated while {…}
The Teatro di Pisa has announced its 2025-26 season. Franco Vassallo leads Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Roberto Scandiuzzi, Vittoria Yeo, and Matteo Falcier. Giuseppe Finzi conducts the production by Fabio Ceresa. Performance Dates: Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2025 Poulenc’s “Le Bal Masque” and Bargagna’s “La Torre” will Giacomo Medici, Emanuele Pellegrini, Silvia Porcellini, Oronzo D’Urso, Giulio Termini, and Chiara Scannapieco. Carlo Boccadoro conducts the production by Stefania Panighini. Performance Dates: Nov. {…}
Spain’s Auditori de Girona has announced its 2025-26 season. Here are the vocal performances. Sara Blanch and Vanessa García Diepa perform Donizetti, Rossini, Bellin, Tosti, De Curtis, and Mazzucchi e Di Capua. Performance Date: Oct. 5, 2025 Cor Maragall will perform music by Antonio Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, Gabriel Fauré, John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, Enric Morera, and Duke Ellington. {…}
The Accademia Filarmonica Romana has announced the summer festival I Giardini della Filarmonica. The festival opens on June 19 and will run through July 10, 2025. Here are the two operatic performances of the season. Chiara Osella features in Swing Opera with Accordi Disaccordi, Alessandro Di Virgilio, Dario Berlucchi, and Dario Scopesi. Performance Date: June 25, 2025 Chiara Osella Stars {…}
Teatro Grattacielo has announced the introduction of a “Pay-What-You-Can ticketing model.” The model is designed to create a casual performance atmosphere, designed to invite new and younger audiences into the world of opera. The initiative will be used for the World Premiere of “Generación Perdida” by Jorge Sosa and a bold new staging of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro.” With {…}
Luis Castillo-Briceño and Miguel Sepúlveda have been awarded the Grand Prix at the International Conducting Competition in Rotterdam. Castillo-Briceño won the Classical, Proms, and Symphonic prizes, while Sepúlveda won the Contemporary, Opera and Codarts prizes. Both conductors competed alongside the four other Designate Winners, including Askonas Holt Fellows Jakub Przybycień and Sam Weller, in five separate rounds and were named {…}
