Melanie Spector has joined Encompass Arts for management. Spector is a three-time District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and an alumna of both the Aspen Music Festival (Fleming Artist) and the Detroit Opera Resident Artist Program. She has received awards from several organizations in addition to the Laffont Competition for her vocal prowess, including the Gerda Lissner Foundation, {…}
This week the Gran Teatre del Liceu will open a new production of “Tristan und Isolde” with an all-star cast and featuring one of the most anticipated role debuts of the year. Headlining the cast is Lise Davidsen who will sing her first Isolde. The performances also mark her return to the opera stage following a hiatus due to pregnancy. {…}
The Washington National Opera has launched a new website with information about its program. The new website includes a letter signed by Andy Pharoah, Timothy O’Leary, Francesca Zambello, and Eric Larsen in which they announce the end of the company’s partnership with the Kennedy Center. The letter writes that “the Center’s current Board and leadership established a new business model that {…}
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute announces its 2026 programming initiatives that harness the power of music to make a meaningful difference in people’s lives. This article only features classical vocal events. Well-Being Concerts First up Esperanza Spalding presents a concert exploring themes of elder care, play, and food cultivation. Performance Date: February 7, 2026 Tenor Nicholas Phan performs with Theotokos. {…}
The Talea Ensemble will continue its celebration of Luciano Berio with “Sequenze III” on Feb. 17, 2026. The program features clarinetist Rane Moore and bassoonist Adrian Morejon, Talea’s Executive Director, with guest soprano Lucy Shelton. The program includes Anthony Braxton’s “Composition No. 304” for Clarinet and Bassoon, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza IXa for Clarinet,” “Sequenza XII for Bassoon,” and “Sequenza III {…}
Selections from a new operatic adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” will be presented on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, at Open Jar Studios in Midtown Manhattan. The opera, which will be presented at 2 and 5 p.m., features music by Blake Allen and a libretto by Will Nunziata. The work adapts Woolf’s novel into a chamber-scale operatic format that focuses {…}
OPERA IN THE PARK Portland will present “Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, A Mariachi Opera” in free outdoor performances this July at Peninsula Park in Portland and Shute Park in Hillsboro. The presentations mark the opera’s Oregon premiere and the first time”Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, A Mariachi Opera” has been offered free and open to the public {…}
San Diego Opera has received a $4.5 million commitment from philanthropist Irwin Jacobs to support the company’s collaboration with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. The gift, which will be donated over three years through the newly established Joan and Irwin Jacobs San Diego Symphony and San Diego Opera Collaboration Fund, will aim to strengthen a decades-long partnership between the two {…}
Patricia Racette is set to direct a new production of Floyd’s “Susannah” at Opera Omaha. Racette is familiar with the work as she performed the opera’s title role at the age of 20 and has directed the opera at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. In a statement she said, “Carlisle Floyd’s ‘Susannah’ sits close to my heart. It draws {…}
Central City Opera will hold its 2026 “Theatre of Dreams” Gala on Friday, April 10, 2026, at the Denver Art Museum’s Lanny & Sharon Martin Building in Denver. The gala celebrates Colorado’s 150th anniversary, Central City Opera’s 94th Summer Festival season, and the return of “The Ballad of Baby Doe” to the Central City Opera stage 70 years after its {…}
Julius Drake and baritone Birger Radde are set to appear at LIFE Victoria on Thursday, Jan. 15, at 8 p.m. The duo will present “Sueño de Wagner” at the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista in Barcelona, a program that explores Wagner’s artistic legacy through works that reflect his impact beyond his own music. The program will include works by Wagner Franz {…}
