Off Centre Music Salon has announced its 30th anniversary season. This article only features vocal performances. The season opens with the inaugural collaboration with the Glenn Gould School. Soprano Alyssa Bartholomew, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabo, tenors Nicholas Kluftinger and Jeffrey Liu, and baritone James Coole-Stevenson perform under the baton of Mark Skazinetsk. Performance Date: October 19, 2025 Tenor Benjamin Butterfield, baritone {…}
Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau has joined Tartiere Artists for worldwide General Management. Rousseau has directed “Carmen” at the National Opera of Estonia, “Thaïs” in Saint-Etienne, “Semiramide” in Rouen, “Roméo et Juliette” at the Opéra de Québec, and “La Rondine” at the Teatro Regio di Torino, among others. Rousseau has also designed several new productions at the Opéra National du Rhin, the Blackwater {…}
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has reached a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with its players. The musicians who are represented by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) Local 148-462 signed an agreement that offers a range of perks for the orchestra’s players, while also continuing the ASO’s streak of eleven years of balanced annual budgets. The ASO’s players will receive {…}
(Photo credit: Alison Johnston) Eugene Lynch’s production of “Maid Made Boss,” Pinchgut Opera’s latest presentation, revealed so convincingly what conductor Erin Helyard had spoken-of in a podcast on the company’s website: just how pivotal “La serva padrona” (to use the 1733 work’s original title) must have been in the history of opera, particularly when seen in France (home of the {…}
The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has announced a three-year extension to Maestro Andreas Delfs. The conductor will now remain through the end of the 2028-2029 season. Delfs has earned a stellar reputation as one of the most respected conductors in the orchestra world and was appointed Music Director of RPO in January 2021. During his tenure, Delfs has reinvigorated the Rochester {…}
(Credit: Marco Brenner) The Royal Opera House is set to bring Puccini’s “Tosca” to cinemas on Oct. 1, 2025. The new production by Oliver Mears is conducted by Music Director Jakub Hrůša and stars Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, and Gerald Finley. When the production opened on Sept 11, critics raved and said, Netrebko’s “‘Vissi d’arte’ was excellent, dripping with {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for “Don Giovanni.” The company said that Kathleen O’Mara will sing the role of Donna Anna on Oct. 20 and 25, replacing Federica Lombardi. O’Mara took to social media to announce the news and said, “Surprise!!! I’m am so excited to share that I will be stepping in to sing Donna Anna {…}
At the beginning of the 19th century, a small Venetian theatre called San Moisè was dedicated to the genre of the “farsa”—short, semi-serious one-act operas performed by a small company of six or seven singers, without a chorus, and accompanied by a modest orchestra. The barely twenty-year-old Gioachino Rossini found this environment ideal for honing his compositional skills and establishing {…}
© Julien Benhamou Thomas Dunford directs Ensemble Jupiter in its 2025-26 tour. The “Songs of Passion” performances showcase the Ensemble’s newest album. Stops on the tour are Wigmore Hall, Riga Congress Hall, Bozar in Brussels, The Rich Hours of Valère, Arnhem’s City Theater, Spa Musical Autumn, Rouen Opera Performance Dates: September 16 -23, November 1 & 28, 2025 The Ensemble performs {…}
The Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogotá, Colombia, is set to present Brahms’ “A German Requiem” on Oct. 4 and 5, 2025. The showcase will feature Ana Durlovski and Valeriano Lanchas as the soloists. Tomàs Grau will conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia and Coro Nacional de Colombia. Durlovski is a Macedonian soprano and former ensemble member {…}
Utopia Opera and London’s Forbear! Theatre are set to present a new staging of Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Mikado” at Hunter College’s Ida K. Lang Recital Hall on Oct. 3–5, 2025. The production will be directed by Forbear!’s Rachel Gianesse Middle, with music direction by Utopia Opera founder William Remmers. Middle sets the work in a magic realm of elves, {…}