The Opéra de Massy has announced its 2025-26 season. Héloïse Poulet, Juliette Mey, and Matthieu Walendzick will perform in recital with Rodolphe Lospied. The program includes music by Mozart and Poulenc. Performance Date: Oct. 14, 2025 Bach Stagioni will be conducted by David Stern and soloists Thaïs Raï-Westphal, Lucas Pauchet, and Julien Ségol. Performance Date: Oct. 16, 2025 Bizet’s “Les {…}
Musica Viva NY is set to present “A Human Requiem,” a one-night only concert at Manhattan’s All Souls NYC on May 18, 2025. Led by Artistic Director/Conductor Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, the Musica Viva NY choir and orchestra will celebrate the conductor’s 10th anniversary season at the helm. The program will includes two pieces that are deeply personal to Hernandez-Valdez: Johannes Brahms’s {…}
The Polish National Opera is set to present Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The production will be directed by Mariusz Treliński, following the success of his work on “Salome” and” La Die Frau beschmidt.” In a statement, Treliński said, “It is a story about the loneliness of artists among people, about the pain of creation and confrontation with cruel patrons and {…}
The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts and Classical New Music has announced its 2025-26 season. There is only one vocal performance for the season. Nicholas Phan and Myra Huang perform various artists at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Performance Date: Nov. 23, 2025 The season will also include performances by Jennifer Koh, Maria Joao Pires and Marc-AndrÈ Hamelin. There will also {…}
The Komische Oper Berlin has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres The children’s opera “Conrad or The factory-made boy” by Samuel Penderbayne will star Mengqi Zhang, Andreja Schneider, Philipp Meierhöfer, Ulrike Helzel, Johannes Dunz, and Junoh Lee. Anne Hinrichsen conducts the production by Ruth Brauer-Kvam. Performance Dates: Oct. 10-Dec. 26, 2025 James Gaffigan conducts a new production of Strauss’ “Salome.” The {…}
Ludovic Tézier has withdrawn from his March 30 performance of “Simon Boccanegra” at the Berlin State Opera. The baritone took to social media and said, “Dear friends, I have to withdraw from the next ‘Simon Boccanegra,’ this coming Sunday 30th, in my beloved Staatsoper Berlin. It is a real sad news for me, as I love this show and the {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) Washington Concert Opera has announced a cast change for its upcoming performance of “Luisa Miller” on April 13, 2025. The company said that Oren Gradus will be taking on the role of Walter, stepping in for Morrison Robinson, who withdrew due to unforeseen circumstances. Gradus has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Semperoper Dresden, San Francisco Opera, Houston {…}
Performa 2025 Biennial has unveiled its programming for its 20th anniversary season. Over the course of three weeks Performa 2025 Biennial will bring together a lineup of artists from a wide range of backgrounds, generations, and disciplines to New York City. This year eight new commissions will be presented. Artist duo Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda, working together as Pakui {…}
(Photo: © Marigona Qerkezi press) Kosovo soprano Marigona Qerkezi gave her first performance at the age of six, in Ljubljana. She has performed on many international stages and has won scholarships from Croatia, Italy and Russia. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the first prize at the Leyla Gencer Opera Competition and a special prize from the {…}
The S.E.M. Ensemble has announced its 2025 Spring Concert. Soprano Kamala Sankaram serves as soprano soloist, along with composer, vocalist, and pianist Amina Claudine Myers. Petr Kotik, conducts the orchestra. Together they will present a program featuring Lejaren Hiller, Judith Berkson, Charles Ames, and Christian Wolff. Also on the program is Myers’ “Knowledge Of The Known And Unknown, “Mother E; {…}
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has named the two early-career conductors who will serve as its Conducting Fellows for the 2025-26 season. The conductors are Nefeli Chadouli from Greece and Wilson Ng from Hong Kong. The program, which was established in 2023, allows conducting opportunities for those who are of backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the field, including minorities in terms of {…}