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Clémentine Margaine, Constantin Trinks, Ian Bostridge, Lidia Fridman Headline Opéra de Lyon’s 2026-27 Season

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(Credit: Micheel Wats) The Opéra de Lyon has announced its 2026–2027 season. Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” will be conducted by Dmitry Matvienko in a new production directed by Laurent Pelly, with designs by Caroline Ginet. The cast includes Piotr Micinski, Lucie Roche, Damien Pass, Marc Mauillon, Gabrielle Philiponet, and Giulia Scopelliti. Performance Dates: Oct. 4–20, 2026 Lecocq’s “Madame {…}

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Festival Opera Announces its 2026 Season Featuring Zachary Gordin, Nikola Printz & Efrain Solis

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The Festival Opera has announced its 2026 season in Walnut Creek California will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Opera The season opens with a Spring Soiree featuring soprano Carrie Hennessey, baritone Zachary Gordin and pianist Daniel Lockert. Performance Date: March 29, 2026 Derek Tam conducts Handel’s “Alcina” with Nikola Printz in the title role, Courtney Miller as Ruggiero, Shawnette Sulker as Morgana {…}

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Klangvokal Music Festival Dortmund Unveils 2026 Season Featuring Pene Pati, Varduhi Abrahamyan & Daniel Behle

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(Photo credit: Kirschbaum) Klangvokal Music Festival Dortmund announces its 2026 season. The season opens with Jean-Philippe Rameau’s “Les Boréades.” Reinoud Van Mechelen, Gwendoline Blondeel, Lisandro Abadie, Tomáš Král, Robert Getchell, Philippe Estèphe, and Lore Binon make up the cast. The Belgian period ensemble a nocte temporis acommpanies. Performance Date: May 22, 2026 Tenor Pene Pati presents the concert, “Neapolitan Canzoni” {…}

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Nevill Holt Festival Previews 2026 Programming

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The Nevill Holt Festival announces the first wave of programming for its 2026 season. This article only features operatic works. Gaetano Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale“ is presented in collaboration with Opera North. Performance Dates: May 29 & 31 & June 5 & 7, 2026 Mezzo-soprano Bethany Horak-Hallett performs with singers from the David Ross Education Trust (DRET) and Gabrieli Roar in {…}

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Daisy Brown, Matthew McKinney, Faryl Smith, Robert Forrest Headline Waterperry Opera Festival’s 2026 Season

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(Photography credit: Julian Guidera) Waterperry Opera Festival announces its 2026 Festival, running from Aug. 7–16, 2026. This is the first season under the leadership of Artistic Director and CEO John Savournin. “Our 2026 programme reflects everything we believe in as a Festival: artistic excellence, imagination, and openness,” Savourin said per an official press release. “Alongside two operatic masterpieces, we are {…}

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Berkshire Opera Festival Unveils First-Ever Resident Artists

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Berkshire Opera Festival has announced the artists selected for its inaugural Resident Artist Program, launching in summer 2026. The first cohort of BOF Resident Artists includes soprano Ethel Trujillo, mezzo-soprano Christina Grohowski, tenor Scott Rubén La Marca, baritone Will (June Young) Kim, and pianist Dakota Perez. The artists were selected through a national audition process from a pool of nearly {…}

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Druid City Opera to Present ‘Don Pasquale’

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Druid City Opera has announced the cast for its June 2026 production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Paul Houghtaling is set to take on the title role, with Indianapolis-based tenor Ganson Salmon as Ernesto and Alabama artists Daniel Seigel and Kathleen Buccleugh as Malatesta and Norina. The company also revealed that soprano Shelby Stephens, tenor Joshua Jones, baritone {…}

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Best of 2025: OperaWire’s Top 10 Performers of 2025

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It is time to wrap up the year and look back at our favorite moments and performers. After releasing our favorite performances of 2025 and showcasing our rising stars of the year, it’s time for OperaWire’s annual tradition of naming our top singers of the year, honoring the opera stars that had major, and in some cases, career-defining, years. So without further ado {…}

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Juan Diego Flórez, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Maxim Mironov, Adrian Sâmpetrean, Dave Monaco & Alasdair Kent Lead Rossini Opera Festival’s 2026 Season

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The Rossini Opera Festival has announced the 2026 edition, which will celebrate its 47th edition. The festival will take place between August 11 and 23, 2026. The festival will open with a new production of “Le Siège de Corinthe” conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by Davide Livermore. The production will star Adrian Sâmpetrean, Matteo Roma, Maxim Mironov, Simon Orfila, {…}