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News, Season Announcement

Volksoper Wien Announces 2026-27 Season Featuring Wallis Giunta, Misha Kiria, Annette Dasch & Matilda Sterby

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The Volksoper Wien has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the opera and operetta productions. Premieres  Hannah Severin and Ayaka Koshida lead “Ronja Räubertochter” with Eike Onyambu, Johannes Brand, Juergen Maurer, Rebecca Nelsen, Reini Moritz, Nicolaus Hagg, and Martin Enenkel. Maayan Franco and Keren Kagarlitsky conduct the production by Ruth Brauer-Kvam. Performance Dates: Sept. 20, 2026-Feb. 7, 2027 {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Opera Australia 2026 Review: Eugene Onegin

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(Photo credit: Keith Saunders) While Tchaikovsky may be one of the most popular composers of the symphonic repertoire and certainly one of the great ballet composers, his operas have, arguably, not reached similar stature or popularity in the West. Commentator David Garrett canvasses some of the difficulties of conveying Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” to non-Russian audiences in an essay on his {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Anna Skryleva on Making Her Debut at Opera Australia & ‘Eugene Onegin’

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(Credit: Katharina Gebauer) Anna Skryleva is an award winning conductor, composer, pianist, and synesthete. She regularly appears as a guest conductor at prestigious opera houses including the Hamburg State Opera, the Royal Swedish Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and this season she made her Teatro alla Scala debut. She is also making {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: A 1960s Thriller Born Anew in Stephen Schwartz’s ‘Séance on a Wet Afternoon’

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(Photo: David Bazemore) Now that 2025 has come and gone, and we are facing a new year of possibilities, it’s best to take a quick review of the stories we’ve explored together in the last years before 2026 really begins. While there has been a good deal of historical articles like the cinematic presence of Maria Callas and Wagner, there’s {…}

News

Cincinnati Opera Announces ‘Underscore’ Series for Spring 2026

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Cincinnati Opera has announced “Underscore,” a new event series running March through May 2026 that explores opera through theatrical, social, and cultural lenses inspired by the company’s 2026 Summer Festival repertoire. “Underscore” opens with “The Importance of Being Oscar,” an original one-act play by Evans Mirageas and Audrey Chait that examines Oscar Wilde’s first visit to Cincinnati in 1882, prior {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) & Prototype by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) 2026 Review: What to wear

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(Photo: Stephanie Berger) The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and Prototype by Beth Morrison Projects (BMP) presented “What to wear” at the BAM Harvey Theater on January 15, 2025, to a sold out audience on opening night. The premiere of this work initially took place at REDCAT in LA in September 2006, under the direction of Richard Foreman, and remains {…}

IndieOpera

Random Opera Returns to Live Performance with ‘Don Pasquale’

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Random Opera will be presenting “Don Pasquale” on April 11, 2026 at Temple Speech Room, Rugby. The opera production by Richard Tegid Jones was first presented on film in 2021 and was streamed on Marquee TV. As such, this presentation represents the live performance of the production. The Donizetti comedy will star Jones in the the the title role alongside {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Irish National Opera 2025-26 Review: The Bartered Bride

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(Photo: Pato Cassinoni) Irish National Opera‘s (INO) recent tour of Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride” took in a number of small venues across Ireland that rarely, if ever, get featured in its normal schedule. Included were towns such as Birr, Monaghan and Manorhamilton, situated in the rural hinterlands, far distant from the Dublin metropolis and the smaller urban areas of Galway, {…}

IndieOpera

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 {…}