Macerata Opera Festival 2026 Review: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

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(Photo: MOF) Director Daniele Menghini returned to the Macerata Opera Festival (MOF) for this season’s revival of the 2022 production of Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia.” Dedicated to Director Graham Vick, this beloved and contemporary production tells the entertaining story of Italy’s modern man through the perspective of social media’s delusional gaze. Conductor Jacopo Brusa led the FORM-Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, {…}

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LA Opera Announces the Passing of Founding Board Member Bernard A. Greenberg

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LA Opera has announced the passing of Bernard A. Greenberg, Founding Board Member, former Chairman, and one of the principal architects of the company. A visionary civic leader, philanthropist and arts advocate, Greenberg devoted more than seven decades to the dream of establishing and sustaining a world-class opera company in Los Angeles. Before the LA Opera was inaugurated in 1986, {…}

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Q & A: Mattia Oliveri on ‘Eugene Onegin,’ Santa Fe Opera & Returning to the Metropolitan Opera

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Italian baritone Mattia Oliveri has become one of the most in-demand singers of his generation performing at major opera houses including the Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and Opéra de Paris. He has become renowned for his Italian repertoire in particular the Bel Canto works and has slowly moved into heavier {…}

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Baltic Opera Festival 2026 Review: Die Walküre

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(Photo: Krzysztof Mystkowski/ Baltic Opera Festival) Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” unfolds in a world governed by contracts, power structures, and inherited systems of control. Yet beneath its mythological surface lies a drama about the moment when those systems begin to fail. In John Fulljames’s production, presented at the Forest Opera in Sopot as a co-production of the Royal Danish Theatre {…}

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Q & A: Polish Baritone Artur Ruciński on Count di Luna & How Opera is a Bridge to Humanity

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(Photo: Karpati & Zarewicz) Polish baritone Artur Ruciński is one of those artists for whom opera has never been merely a display of vocal mastery. For more than 25 years, he has built an extensive Verdi repertoire, returning to its great roles with fresh eyes each time. In Madrid, where Ruciński is performing Count di Luna in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il {…}

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Opera Australia to World Premiere ‘The Drover’s Wife’

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Opera Australia will present the world premiere of “The Drover’s Wife” this August. The new First Nations opera, which features music by composer George Palmer AM and a libretto by Leah Purcell AM, is co-commissioned by Opera Australia and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre in association with Oombarra Productions and The Balnaves Foundation. Purcell AM will direct the production of the {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Q & A: Professor Plamen Kartaloff, Director of Sofia Opera & Ballet

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(Photo: Sofia Opera) Professor Plamen Kartaloff’s legacy as the director of Sofia Opera is guided by his deep commitment to artistic integrity and the living spirit of music in the theater. This depth comes from years spent putting in the work, forging new paths and uncovering the musical possibilities “between the lines” for Bulgarian singers. While the Bulgarian opera tradition {…}

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Seattle Opera Names Creative Directors of Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab

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(Photo by Rebecca Allen) Seattle Opera has named composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Deborah Brevoort as Creative Directors of the Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab, the company’s new-works incubator program for emerging opera composers and librettists. Kaminsky and Brevoort, both of whom previously served as Creation Lab mentors, will redesign the program’s curriculum and guide up-and-coming composer-librettist teams in developing {…}

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Cincinnati Opera Announces ‘Good Bones’ to Complete Black Opera Project Trilogy

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(Credit: Eric Schwabel) Cincinnati Opera has announced that “Good Bones” will be the third and final work in The Black Opera Project. The opera, with music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames, will receive its world premiere in Summer 2028 at Cincinnati Music Hall. “Good Bones” follows a young couple who return {…}

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Macerata Opera Festival 2026 Review: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

LA Opera Announces the Passing of Founding Board Member Bernard A. Greenberg

Q & A: Mattia Oliveri on ‘Eugene Onegin,’ Santa Fe Opera & Returning to the Metropolitan Opera

Baltic Opera Festival 2026 Review: Die Walküre

Q & A: Polish Baritone Artur Ruciński on Count di Luna & How Opera is a Bridge to Humanity

Opera Australia to World Premiere ‘The Drover’s Wife’

Q & A: Professor Plamen Kartaloff, Director of Sofia Opera & Ballet

Seattle Opera Names Creative Directors of Jane Lang Davis Creation Lab

Cincinnati Opera Announces ‘Good Bones’ to Complete Black Opera Project Trilogy