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Editorials

 Op-Ed: Opera Neo Presents Louise Bertin’s ‘Fausto’ With American Premiere Starring Young Artists

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(Photo: Gary Payne) At 26 years old, French composer Louise Bertin launched “Fausto,” an Italian semiseria and what would be her third opera. After a largely anti-climatic and tepid response to the 1831 premiere in Paris, the opera would be shelved and forgotten for nearly 200 years. Now in 2026, Opera Neo has revived the work for the first time {…}

News

Shanghai Grand Opera House Opens Its Doors to a Western-Dominated Season

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The Shanghai Grand Opera House has announced its inaugural season, running from Oct. 17, 2026 to Feb. 20 2027. Featuring 47 productions across 82 performances, the season includes just one Chinese opera, with the operatic program otherwise dominated by Western classics. The news was announced this afternooon at a press conference moderated by Ms Zhang Xiaoding, the General Director. The {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Carla Lucero on How Opera & Storytelling Meet Social Justice  

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In a modern world burgeoning with new operas each year, some artists are ensuring their cultures  be spotlighted in an industry constantly being innovated. Quinteto Latino and Opera Cultura, are two artistic pioneers with similar missions: spotlighting Latino artists while uplifting  communities through diverse storytelling. Quinteto Latino, a wind quintet engaging audiences  through education and performing commissioned pieces by Latino {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Pinchgut Opera 2026 Review: The First Murder

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(Photo credit: Anna Kučera) Pinchgut Opera’s Artistic Director, Erin Helyard, had long wanted to present “The First Murder” by Alessandro Scarlatti. This production, which premiered on Saturday May 23, was the second by Pinchgut to be presented in the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Sydney’s Walsh Bay, Pinchgut’s normal home being Angel Place recital hall, a concert venue suited to the {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Washington National Opera 2025-26 Review: West Side Story

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The fully staged production of “West Side Story” by the Washington National Opera (WNO) at Lyric Baltimore is an example of turning a disaster into a great success. Making a calculated and difficult decision, WNO decided to take the company out of the former Kennedy Center. Unlike City Opera in New York, WNO’s decision was a moral choice, not a {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

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(Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) On May 14, the Metropolitan Opera showcased the New York premiere of “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz. The opera, which had its world premiere in 2022 at the San Diego Opera, has been a staple at many U.S. company’s over the past years including LA, {…}

Special Features

An Opera in Poems – American Opera Projects Brings Benjamin Franklin & ‘The Post Office’ to NYC

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(Photo Credit: Sarah Peet) In 1753, a 47-year-old Philadelphia writer, editor, scientist and inventor was given a new title by his London overlords. The British Crown named Benjamin Franklin “Deputy Postmaster for the Colonies,” a position he’d sought, and financially lobbied toward, for a couple of years. The gig offered a way to spread publications and patronage. Multiple family members {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q&A: Librettist/Director Crystal Manich & Composer Laura Kaminsky on Pittsburgh Opera’s World Premiere, Telling Audiences It’s “Time to Act” With School Gun Violence

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  Tonight, Pittsburgh Opera will set the stage to “Time to Act’s” world premiere. A new opera whose setting is a modern day high school and whose characters are teenagers, the opera’s slogan is “build the world you want to see.” The students’ preparation for a production of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy, “Antigone,” quickly turns into a parallel story of {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opéra National de Paris 2025-26 Review: Carmen

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(Credit: © Benoîte Fanton) “Carmen” is just about the last opera one would think of as homoerotic, yet this is the vibe of this Paris production; it’s haunted by the male body as object of desire. Other adjectives used to describe it would be bleak, vulgar, obscene, violent and most of all angry. Judging from the costumes, Calixto Bieito’s staging {…}