Jonas Kaufmann has announced that he is featured in the film “Pumuckl und das große Missverständnis.” The tenor announced the news on social media, stating, “I had so much fun playing an opera singer in the latest Pumuckl movie! We filmed at the Bayerische Staatsoper earlier this year, and the movie is now in movie theaters. It is so important {…}
Stephan Zilias has been appointed the new Music Director of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Zilias, who has been General Music Director of the Hanover State Opera since 2020 and will end his term in August, will take up his position in September. The conductor has built up a strong artistic profile there with productions that encompass both the great Romantic repertoire {…}
Conductor Per-Otto Johansson has extended his contract as General Music Director at Landestheater Detmold until 2029. Johansson joined the as Generalmusikdirektor at Landestheater Detmold Generalmusikdirektor from the 2022-23 Season. He has conducted new productions of “Madama Butterfly,” “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” and Don Giovanni,” five orchestral concerts, and tours to Bregenz, Bern, and Zurich. In a statement, he said, “It {…}
(Photo: Padraig Grant) As well as its featured operas, the Wexford Opera Festival also puts on an array of other events, including performances of its “pocket operas,” that is, short works or abridged versions of larger works, sung to a piano accompaniment, presented in the smaller Jerome Hynes Theatre, rather than on the theatre’s main stage. One of the “pocket {…}
(Photo: © OMC Marco Borrelli) On November 2nd the Opéra de Monte Carlo opened its 2025–26 season with a single, semi-staged performance of Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer” starring Bryn Terfel in the title role. One of Cecilia Bartoli’s distinctive innovations as Artistic Director has been to introduce more of these productions mises en espace—performances that are acted onstage without full {…}
The Gerda Lissner Foundation is teaming up with WQXR to stream two more concerts from major conservatories around the country. First up, on Nov. 10, 2025, the organization will showcase a concert starring tenor Lawrence Brownlee at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The tenor will perform pianist Kevin Murphy as well as soprano Yoori Choi, tenor Jonathan Elmore, {…}
The English Symphony Orchestra will open its Malvern residency with “The Joker’s Wild – Mischief in Music” on Nov. 12, 2025, at Malvern Theatres. Soprano April Fredrick will headline the program, which includes performances of Haydn’s Symphony No. 60, “Il Distratto,” Weill’s “Cabaret Songs,” Schulhoff’s Suite for Chamber Orchestra, and Milhaud’s “The Ox on the Roof.” Kenneth Woods conducts. The {…}
The New National Theatre Tokyo will stream Toshio Hosokawa’s “Natasha” worldwide following its acclaimed August 2025 premiere. The opera will be available to stream for free on OperaVision and NNTT Stream from Dec. 12, 2025 at 7 p.m. CET through June 12, 2026 at 12 p.m. CET. The recording date was August 17, 2025, with a running time of approximately {…}
Lyrica Classic will open its second season of its Muffled Voices Festival with the U.S. premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s “Baruch’s Silence” on Nov. 22, 2025 at the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown, MD. The chamber opera, based on the Holocaust diary of the composer’s father, received its world premiere at Staatstheater Braunschweig in 2010 and has since been performed in Austria, {…}
Opera Austin Festival will return for its second annual edition on Nov. 15, 2025, running from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Draylen Mason Music Studio. The 2025 festival will feature mainstage presentations by Suzette Emberton, Trevor Shaw, and Nathan Felix Opera Productions. Shaw will premiere an excerpt from “City of Lantern Flies,” while Felix will present “Ribas-Dominicci,” based {…}
(Photo Credit: Eliana Brea) Opera in Williamsburg, Virginia, is offering special “FED-SHUDOWN” pay-what-you-can (PWYC) tickets for its upcoming Nov. 7, 2025 performance of Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice” at the Kimball Theatre. Countertenor The opera will star Nicholas Tamagna as Orfeo alongside Maria Brea as Euridice and Laura Leon as Amore. Maestro Jorge Parodi leads the orchestra, with Zahavi-Ely directing. “We {…}