(Photo Credit: Haydneum) Nicholas McGegan is set to reunite with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale to conduct a series of concerts. First the conductor will lead special concerts for Philharmonia’s popular Jews & Music series that will highlight evocative Baroque works by Rossi and Boccherini, as well as Syrian and Moroccan songs, and more. The concerts will be led on {…}
(Credit: Michele Monasta) The Teatro Comunale di Bologna is set to open its 2026 season with a production of Mozart’s “Idomeneo.” The opera will open the first season curated by Superintendent Elisabetta Riva and Artistic Director Pierangelo Conte an will open on Jan. 24, 2026 and will run through Feb. 1, 2026. The opening night performance will be live broadcast {…}
Opera Australia is set to present Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” The opera, which opens on Jan. 27 and runs through Feb. 28, 2026, will be performed for the first time in two decades. Elijah Moshinsky’s legendary production will be revived by Claudia Osborne, who will direct. Meanwhile, Tahu Matheson will conduct. The cast will include mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer as Hansel, {…}
Richard Grenell, the Executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, is slamming artists for canceling performances. Grenell took to X stating, “The artists who are now canceling shows were booked by the previous far left leadership. Their actions prove that the previous team was more concerned about booking far left political activists rather than artists {…}
As we wrap up 2025, here is a look back at some of the most-read articles of the year. We will focus mainly on longer-form pieces like reviews and interviews for this article. Top 10 Most-Read Reviews of 2025 Metropolitan Opera Review of New “Aida” Production Royal Ballet & Opera Review of “Tosca” with Anna Netrebko Metropolitan Opera Review “La {…}
The Oleg Danovski National Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Constanța, Romania will present Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The new production opens on Jan. 31, 2026, at 6:30 p.m and features a new staging directed by Anghel I. Arbore, with sets by Cătălin I. Arbore. The cast features soprano Cristina Maria Oltean as Violetta Valéry and baritone Răzvan Săraru as Giorgio Germont. {…}
On Dec. 21, 2025, contralto Ortrun Wenkel died at the age of 83 after a short illness. Wenkel was born in Buttstädt, Thuringia on Oct. 25, 1942 and studied at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. After immigrating from East Germany to West Germany, she continued at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. The contralto began her {…}
New Camerata Opera will present “L’amant anonyme” this Spring. The only surviving opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, will be conducted by Kelly Lam and directed by Brandon Shaw McKnight in a staging that reimagines the opera within a 1960s television studio inspired by The Bell Telephone Hour. “L’amant anonyme” had its world premiere on March 18, 1780. The {…}
The National Opera Association (NOA) will return to Boston, Massachusetts, for its 2026 National Conference, scheduled for Jan. 7–10, 2026. The conference will carry the theme “Bold Voices, Boundless Futures” to coincide with the 30th anniversary of NOA’s Legacy Project. “Bringing NOA’s 71st Annual National Conference to Boston as our nation marks its 250th anniversary offers a powerful moment to {…}
Opera Carolina announced that Stefano Vignati, the company’s Music Director and Principal Conductor, has been selected to conduct performances of “Turandot” as part of the global Puccini Centennial celebrations in China. Puccini’s final opera will be presented starting from Dec. 30, 2025 to Jan. 1, 2026 at Xiamen Banlam Grand Theatre, followed by performances at the Wuhan Qintai Grand Theatre {…}
The Greek National Opera has renewed composer Giorgos Koumendakis as Artistic Director for a fourth consecutive three-year term. Koumendakis assumed the Artistic Direction of the Greek National Opera in 2017 and has already completed nine years in this role. He is also the first Artistic Director in the Company’s 85-year history to be awarded a fourth consecutive term. In a {…}
