Mark Delavan, Lise Lindstrom, Nicole Heaston, J’Nai Bridges & Matthew Polenzani Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. Audiences will get to hear a new Ring Cycle by a major American orchestra, a new recording from the National Symphony Orchestra and some world premieres. Der Ring des Nibelungen The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Fabio Luisi release a live recording of {…}

News

Anuj Bhutani Wins BMP:NEXTGEN3 2026

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(Credit: Jill Steinberg) Beth Morrison Projects has named composer Anuj Bhutani the winner of BMP:NEXTGEN3 following two performances at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Bhutani will receive a commission from BMP to develop his autobiographical music-theatre work “MANU” into an evening-length piece over the coming years. The work is slated to receive its full premiere at BMP’s PROTOTYPE Festival in New {…}

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Beth Morrison Projects to Present New Works by BMP:NEXTGEN 3 Finalists

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Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) is set to presents new works by the two finalists of the company’s flagship program for early career composers BMP:NEXTGEN. The two finalists, Anuj Bhutani and Harriet Steinke, were selected from 10 semifinalists and each received a commission for a 30-minute vocal-theatre work developed under the mentorship of composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek. Semi-staged {…}

Interviews

O2 Trainer: How Bas Rutten Links Opera & the Art of Professional Fighting

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(Photo: Bas Rutten) It’s hard to imagine what could possibly link the divine art of classical singing with the somewhat brutal (if noble) art of professional fighting. Bas Rutten, the legendary former MMA master and pioneer, UFC world heavyweight champion and ‘Hall of Famer,’ three-time ‘King of Pancrase’ world champion, kickboxer extraordinaire, self-defense expert, stuntman and Hollywood movie star will {…}

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Kaileigh Riess Stars in ‘The Singing Cabinet of Mathilde LeBeau’

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Opera on Tap is set to present “The Singing Cabinet of Mathilde LeBeau.” Soprano Kaileigh Riess and actress Carla Kissane star in the concert which is the first of six installations that total up to the full opera, “The Singing Cabinets.” The story follows an automaton constructed in the likeness of a Mathilde LeBeau, a celebrated opera singer, who mysteriously {…}

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‘Angel’s Bone’ to Make UK Premiere

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(Photo Courtesy of Factory International) Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary opera “Angel’s Bone” is set to make its UK premiere. Together the English National Opera (ENO) and Factory International present the new production directed by Kip Williams. Kantos Chamber Choir and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra are among performers. Vavrek’s libretto explores the dark forces that drive people {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Gran Teatre del Liceu 2025-26 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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Barcelona’s venerable Teatro Liceu hasn’t experienced this level of anticipation in a decade. It may be surprising that Wagner would stimulate such activity in a Mediterranean city, but the city of Gaudí is the most Wagnerian of Spanish locales and it’s long had a connection to the composer’s works. But that aside, the likely reason for the excessive buzz was {…}

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Teatro Filarmonico 2025 Review: Ernani

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(Credit @Ennevi/Verona Arena Foundation) “Ernani” (1844), Verdi’s fifth opera, is possibly the finest of his early period. More than any of his preceding works, it marks a drastic change from bel canto operas of the time in two respects. Firstly, the libretto, until then of secondary importance, was pivotal, as bel canto was mostly about beautiful voices, especially the soprano’s. {…}

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American Lyric Theater to Present Annual ‘Living Libretto’ Showcase, Featuring Works by Kathleen Tagg & Ivette Heryman Rodriguez

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American Lyric Theater will present its annual Living Libretto showcase on December 14, 2025 at 2 p.m. at Open Jar Studios at 1601 Broadway. The showcase will offer first readings of two new one-act operas written by Resident Artists in the Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP). First up, “Fourth Wave Beauty Queens,” by composer Kathleen Tagg and librettist Laura Barati, {…}

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Mark Delavan, Lise Lindstrom, Nicole Heaston, J’Nai Bridges & Matthew Polenzani Lead New CD/DVD Releases

Anuj Bhutani Wins BMP:NEXTGEN3 2026

Beth Morrison Projects to Present New Works by BMP:NEXTGEN 3 Finalists

O2 Trainer: How Bas Rutten Links Opera & the Art of Professional Fighting

Kaileigh Riess Stars in ‘The Singing Cabinet of Mathilde LeBeau’

‘Angel’s Bone’ to Make UK Premiere

Gran Teatre del Liceu 2025-26 Review: Tristan und Isolde

Teatro Filarmonico 2025 Review: Ernani

American Lyric Theater to Present Annual ‘Living Libretto’ Showcase, Featuring Works by Kathleen Tagg & Ivette Heryman Rodriguez