Menu

201 search results for…

News

The Wagner Society to Present Concert Featuring Sadie Cheslak & Alec Carlson

https://operawire.com/the-wagner-society-to-present-concert-featuring-sadie-cheslak-alec-carlson/

The Wagner Society of New York will present a recital featuring the winners of its 2025 Singers Competition on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 7:00 p.m. in Victor Borge Hall at Scandinavia House. The program features mezzo-soprano Sadie Cheslak, winner of the Robert Lauch Memorial Fund Award, and tenor Alec Carlson, winner of the Ursula Springer Memorial Endowment Fund Award, joined {…}
News

Finn Sagal Wins Gerda Lissner Foundation’s 2025 Art Song Competition

https://operawire.com/finn-sagal-wins-gerda-lissner-foundations-2025-art-song-competition/

The Gerda Lissner Foundation has announced the winners of its 2025 Art Song Competition. First prize, and $10,000, went to baritone Finn Sagal, with soprano Magdalena Kuźma getting Second prize and the corresponding $7,000. Finally, soprano Jennifer Robinson won Third prize and $4,500. Sagal, Kuźma, and Robinson will be featured in the Winners Concert on April 29, 2026, at Zankel {…}
News

Finn Sagal Joins IMG Artists for General Management

https://operawire.com/finn-sagal-joins-img-artists-for-general-management/

(Credit: Kirstine Walton) Baritone Finn Sagal has joined IMG Artists for general management. Sagal will be represented by Executive Vice President and Global Head of Vocal, Matthew Horner. The baritone has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pasadena Symphony, and with the Merola Opera Program in San Francisco.  He is a recipient of the 2025 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the {…}
News

Sadie Cheslak Wins 2025 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition

https://operawire.com/sadie-cheslak-wins-2025-jensen-foundation-vocal-competition/

Mezzo-soprano Sadie Cheslak is the 2025 Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition winner. Chelsak will receive a $15,000 grant following performances of “Weiche, Wotan! Weiche!” from Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” and “My husband was an ugly man” from “The Listeners.” “The Jensen Foundation’s commitment to supporting artists they believe in means everything to me. It’s a vote of confidence in who I am {…}
News

Leah Crocetto & Carrie-Ann Matheson to Perform in Schwabacher Recital Series

https://operawire.com/leah-crocetto-carrie-ann-matheson-to-perform-in-schwabacher-recital-series/

(Photo credit: Jiyang Chen) The Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center, concludes its 41st season with a performance by Leah Crocetto and pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson. The third and final concert of the series showcases music by Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giuseppe Verdi, Stephen Sondheim, and others. Baritone Lester Lynch will join {…}
News

Erin Wagner Headlines Concert at The Morgan Library & Museum

https://operawire.com/erin-wagner-headlines-concert-at-the-morgan-library-museum/

The Morgan Library & Museum will present a recital featuring mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner on April 24, 2025. The showcase, which kicks off at 12 p.m. and has a duration of one hour, will feature the mezzo as she takes Dominick Argento’s “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf” and Mahler’s “Rückert-Lieder.” Wagner is a Naumburg Vocal Award Winner and Houston Grand {…}
News

Leah Crocetto, Michael John Butler, Olivier Zerouali, Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales Among Headliners of 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series

https://operawire.com/leah-crocetto-michael-john-butler-olivier-zerouali-georgiana-adams-caroline-corrales-among-headliners-of-2025-schwabacher-recital-series/

Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center have announced the 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series. First up is a concert starring Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Thomas Kinch, Samuel Kidd, and pianist Julian Grabarek as they present works by Amy Beach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, Richard Strauss, George Butterworth, Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy and Kurt Weill. Nicholas Phan curates the program. {…}
News

Richard Cox Named Professor of Voice and Executive Chair at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

https://operawire.com/richard-cox-named-professor-of-voice-and-executive-chair-at-san-francisco-conservatory-of-music/

(Credit: SFCM) Richard Cox will join the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Voice department in 2025. Cox will be a Professor of Voice and Executive Chair of the Voice program. In a statement, Cox said, “I am looking forward to joining the distinguished faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Through the recently expanded multi-genre voice curriculum, SFCM has {…}

Links

Social

Contact

Opera is thriving. And OperaWire came about as a desire to take in as much of it and allow the passionate fan base access to everything this wondrous art form has to offer on a daily basis.

© Copyright 2026 OperaWire
Site by Lenny's Studio