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Renée Fleming, Danielle De Niese, Quinn Kelsey, Nicholas Phan Headline Festival Napa Valley 2026

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(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) Festival Napa Valley has announced its 2026 summer season, which runs from July 4–19, 2026. The season opens with Festival Live! Concerts, a series of daily performances showcasing Festival artists in rotating programs presented in partnership with the Frost School of Music’s Blackburn Music Academy at CIA at Copia. Performance Dates: July 4–18, 2026 Festival Napa {…}
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Festival Napa Valley Announces World Premiere of ‘The Judgment of Paris’

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Festival Napa Valley has announced the commissioning and world premiere of “The Judgment of Paris,” a new one-act opera by acclaimed composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. The work will debut on July 18, 2026, on the Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug Winery, as part of Festival Napa Valley’s landmark 20th Anniversary Season. It will mark the {…}
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Opera Philadelphia to Present ‘Il Viaggio a Reims’

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Opera Philadelphia is set to present  Rossini’s “Il viaggio a Reims.” The company will present the work four times at the Academy of Music on Sept. 19, 21, 26, and 28 in Damiano Michieletto’s production. In a statement, General Director Anthony Roth Costanzo said, “This opera is an explosion of sparkling bravura energy, and with the brilliant Corrado Rovaris at {…}
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Corinne Winter, Federica Lombardi, Alex Esposito, Freddie De Tommaso, Gregory Kunde, Angel Blue & Serena Sáenz Lead Palau de Les Arts’ 2025-26 Season

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The Palau de les Arts has announced its 2025-26 season. Lorenzo Viotti conducts Gounod’s “Faust” in a production by Johannes Erath. Iván Ayón-Rivas, Alex Esposito, Ruth Iniesta, Florian Sempey, and Ekaterine Buachidze. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-15, 2025 Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “La descente d’Orphée aux enfers” will star Josipa Bilić, Camille Chopin, Sarah Fleiss, Tanaquil Ollivier, Sydney Frodsham, Richard Pittsinger, Bastien Rimondi, Attila {…}
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Asmik Grigorian, Anna Netrebko, Brian Jagde, Saioa Hernández, Ermonela Jaho, Lisette Oropesa, Jakub Józef Orliński & Nadine Sierra Lead Teatro Real de Madrid’s 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Otello,” starring Brian Jadge, Jorge de León, and Angelo Villari in the title role. The cast includes Igor Golovatenko, Artur Ruciński, Gabriele Viviani, Airam Hernández, Asmik Grigorian, and Maria Agresta. Nicola Luisotti and Giuseppe Mentuccia conduct the production by David Alden. Performance Dates: Sept. {…}
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Opera Philadelphia Announces 6 Showcases for 2025-26 Season

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Opera Philadelphia has announced its 2025-26 season. First up is the 50th anniversary gala “Vox Ex Machina.” It will feature a unique use of technology described as a singer’s aria becoming “a physical painting in real time before the audience’s eyes.” Performance Date: Sept. 13, 2025 Damiano Michieletto will direct “Il Viaggo a Reims” in its Philadelphia premiere. The opera stars {…}
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Long Beach Opera’s 2025 Season to Spotlight the Work of Pauline Oliveros

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(Photo by Claire Harvie) Long Beach Opera has announced that its 2025 programming will center on the work of Pauline Oliveros. Oliveros (1932-2016) is a famed American composer known for her work in experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center and explored the concepts of “deep listening” and “sonic awareness” in {…}
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Boston Lyric Opera 2024 Review: Mitridate

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(Photo credit: Nile Scott Studios) What can one expect from an opera that the one and only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed when he was a mere fourteen years young? It is impressive considering the age of its composer and disappointing if we bear in mind what came next—like listening to Wagner’s “Die Feen,” Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” or even Puccini’s {…}

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