Saioa Hernández, Maxim Mironov, Nino Machaidze, Nina Minasyan, Lianna Haroutounian & Luca Micheletti Lead Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège’s 2026-27 Season

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The Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera Giampaolo Bisanti conducts Verdi’s “Macbeth” with Stefano Poda directing. Luca Micheletti, Ewa Płonka, Ricardo Fassi, and Matteo Desole. Performance Dates: Sept. 18-29, 2026 Ravel’s “L’Heure espagnole” and “L’Enfant et les Sortilèges” will be conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce and directed by Jean-Louis Grinda. The production will star Vincent Ordonneau , {…}

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Saioa Hernández, Xabier Anduaga, Aleksandra Kurzak, Roberto Alagna, Tomasz Konieczny, Federica Lombardi, Julieth Lozano, Elsa Dreisig, & Juliana Grigoryan Lead Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2026-27 Season

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The Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced its 2026-27 season. Premieres “Mittwoch aus Licht” will be conducted by Maxime Pascal and directed by Susanne Kennedy. Performance Dates: Sept. 19-27, 2026 Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” will be conducted by Anna Handler and Giedrė Šlekytė and directed by Milo Rau. The opera will star Tareq Nazmi, Aušrine Stundytė, Attilio Glaser, Stephanie Wake-Edwards, Omar {…}

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Stefano Coluccini Appointed General Director of the Puccini Festival

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Stefano Coluccini has been appointed the General Director of the Puccini Festival. The board of directors of the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano announced the news. Coluccini has worked with the festival since 1993 and has also worked with the San Severo Musica Festival, and Teatro di Castalia, among others. This season the Puccini festival is set to open with a new {…}

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Anna Netrebko to Return to Puccini Festival in 2027

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The Puccini festival has announced that Anna Netrebko will return to the festival in 2027. The company revealed that the soprano will sing two productions during the season. It will be the first time Netrebko sings a production at the festival; she previously appeared in 2025 when she sang in a gala concert and won of the Puccini Prize in {…}

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Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flórez, Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa, Pretty Yende, Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Luca Salsi, Marina Rebeka, Xabier Anduaga & Piotr Beczała Lead Wiener Staatsoper’s 2026-27 Season

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The Wiener Staatsoper has announced its 2026-27 season. Premiere Zemlinsky’s “Eine Florentinische Tragödie” and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” will be performed in a new production with Dmitry Golovnin, Christopher Maltman, Florian Boesch, and Asmik Grigorian. Alain Altinoglu conducts the new production by Vasily Barkhatov. Performance Dates: Oct. 3-12, 2026 Barrie Kosky directs a new production of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” with {…}

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Book Review: Opera Wars

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The 2008 financial collapse led to the 2009 bankruptcy of the Baltimore Opera Company, so 24-year-old hometown soprano Caitlin Vincent decided to take matters into her own hands. Flush with $2,000, she started The Figaro Project to give herself and friends a way to keep performing. By any measure of the indie opera scene, the scrappy upstarts had a successful {…}

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Jihoon Park Joins TACT Artists Management

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Tenor Jihoon Park has been joined the roster of TACT Artists Management. He will be represented by Sofia Rukin. Park is a tenor who is well-known such roles as Calaf in “Turandot,” Macduff in “Macbeth,” Cavaradossi in “Tosca” and Don José in “Carmen.” Park has also performed Royal Opera House Muscat, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Opéra de Nice, the Hungarian {…}

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Amigos Canarios de la Opera 2025-26 Review: Otello

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The title role of Verdi’s “Otello” is one of the hardest roles ever written for a tenor in the Italian repertoire. Luciano Pavarotti simply recorded it while Carlo Bergonzi (who was considered a Verdi expert) and Franco Corelli always refused to sing it. On the other hand, Plácido Domingo debuted the role when he was 34 years old, and though {…}

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Luciano Pavarotti, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marina Rebeka, Piotr Beczala & Randall Scotting Lead CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back as we explore the latest CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. This week audiences get to hear a Puccini album by one of the great divas of our time, re-releases of Pavarotti’s great hits, and a full performance of “Faust” with a star-studded cast. Sondra Radvanovsky – Puccini: Heroines Sondra Radvanovsky, Lyric Opera of Chicago, {…}

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