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Lise Davidsen, Gerald Finley, Sabine Devieilhe, Camilla Nylund, Golda Schultz & Charles Castronovo Lead Musikverein Wien’s 2026-27 Season

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The Musikverein Wien has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. Serafina Starke and Rebeka Stojkoska lead an evening of works from Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf and Fanny Hensel. Performance Date: Sept. 17, 2026 Julia Kleiter, Julian Prégardien, and Sir András Schiff perform in recital of music by Johannes Brahms. Performance Date: {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Elīna Garanča, Benjamin Bernheim, Derek Welton, Gerald Finley, Freddie de Tommaso, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, & Piotr Beczała Lead Wiener Konzerthaus’ 2026-27 Season

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The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. VOCES8 leads a program of music by William Byrd, Virgil Thomson, Caroline Shaw, Morten Lauridsen, William Billings, Bobby McFerrin, Eric Whitacre, Taylor Scott Davis, Samuel Barber, Richard Rodgers, and Billy Strayhorn.  Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2026 The Mahler Academy Orchestra will be joined by Fleur Barron and Philipp von Steinaecker in music by Mahler. Performance {…}

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Florida Grand Opera Announces 2025–26 Studio & CANTO Artists Ahead of ‘SongFest’ Launch

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Florida Grand Opera has announced the artists selected for its 2025–26 Studio and CANTO Programs, who will appear in the company’s “SongFest” concerts on Nov. 21 in Miami and Nov. 23 in Fort Lauderdale. The FGO Studio roster will feature sopranos Catherin Meza and Ingrid Kuribayashi; tenors Levi Adkins and James Mancuso; baritones Alex Granito and Joseph O’Shea; and bass-baritone {…}

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Sarah Connolly, Magdalena Kožená, & Mark Padmore Star in Oxford International Song Festival 2026

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The Oxford International Song Festival announces its 2026 lineup. Magdalena Kožená opens the year by performing Schumann’s “Dichterliebe” with pianist Malcolm Martineau. Performance Date: January 10, 2026 Alexandra Flood and pianist Sholto Kynoch perform a program dedicated to Schubert’s 229th birthday. Performance Date: January 31, 2026 Felix Gygli presents Shakespeare settings by Korngold, Quilter, and Rautavaara, Jonathan Dove. Performance Date: {…}

IndieOpera

Opera Austin Festival Unveils 2025 Slate

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Opera Austin Festival will return for its second annual edition on Nov. 15, 2025, running from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Draylen Mason Music Studio. The 2025 festival will feature mainstage presentations by Suzette Emberton, Trevor Shaw, and Nathan Felix Opera Productions.  Shaw will premiere an excerpt from “City of Lantern Flies,” while Felix will present “Ribas-Dominicci,” based {…}

IndieOpera

Emmanuel Music to Present East Coast Premiere of ‘Dido’s Ghost’

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Emmanuel Music will present the East Coast premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s “Dido’s Ghost” on Oct. 18 and 19, 2025 at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 2021 chamber opera by Wallen and librettist Wesley Stace, had its world premiere at the Barbican Centre on June 6, 2021. It revisits the story of Dido and explores the spectral aftermath of her despair {…}

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Kirsty Taylor-Stokes & Eleanor Dennis Headline Regents Opera’s Reimagined ‘Salome’

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(Photo by Alexis Dubus) The UK’s Regents Opera is set to return to York Hall in 2026 with a new staging of Richard Strauss’ “Salome.” The production will be conducted by Artistic Director Ben Woodward and directed by playwright and director Mark Ravenhill, who sets it in the historic East End boxing venue. “After the monumental scale of the Ring {…}

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Helen Charlston Headlines Brighton Early Music Festival 2025

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(Photo credit: Matthew Johnson) The 24th edition of the Brighton Early Music Festival announces its schedule. This article only features vocal concerts. Mademoiselle Duval’s “Les Génies ou les Caractères de l’Amour” is performed by sopranos Harriet Cameron and Laura Coppinger, tenor Richard Jackson, baritone Allyn Wu, and bass Henry Saywell. They are joined by the Baroque Collective Singers along with {…}

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Buddha’s Light International Association to Showcase Peking Opera in Austin

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Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA) has announced two upcoming days showcasing Peking Opera, a form of Chinese opera, in Austin at The Long Center: The first performance will be “Three Excerpts of Peking Opera,” which will be a series of three performances on July 26, 7:30 p.m. The second work will be “Monkey King Fights the Skeleton Demon,” taking place {…}