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News, Season Announcement

Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Announces 2025-26 Season

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The Teatro Lirico di Cagliari has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Otello” with Francesco Lanzillotta conducting a new production by Roberto Catalano. Performance Dates: Dec. 10-16, 2025 The second opera of the season will be Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia” in a new production by Andrea Bernard. Leonard Sini conducts the bel canto masterwork. Performance Dates: Jan. {…}

News, Season Announcement

Jessica Pratt, Stacey Alleaume, Kang Wang, Oreste Cosimo & Valeria Sepe Lead Opera Australia’s 2026 Season

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Opera Australia has announced its 2026 season. Sidney Summer 2026 Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” will be conducted by Andrea Battistoni, Paul Fitzsimon, and Erina Yashima. It will be directed by Moffatt Oxenbould and will star Guanqun Yu, Vittoria Yeo, and Olivia Cranwell alongside Robert Watson and Oreste Cosimo. Performance Dates: Dec. 31, 2025-March 25, 2026 Ann Yee directs a new production {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Anna Pirozzi On Her Recent Performance of Abigaille in ‘Nabucco’ & More

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(Photo: Julian Hargreaves) Over the last decade, Anna Pirozzi has established herself as the leading Italian dramatic soprano today, treading the most prestigious Italian and international stages. Her many career highlights include: Maddalena di Coigny in “Andrea Chénier” at the San Francisco Opera and in Bilbao and Turin; the title role in “Turandot,” which she first performed in Israel under {…}

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Obituary: Metropolitan Opera Chorus Member Seth Malkin Dies

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The Metropolitan Opera Chorus member Seth Malkin has died. Malkin became a full-time member of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus in 2005 and had previously performed a wide variety of roles in Opera and Music Theater. He appeared with such companies as The Opera Orchestra of New York, Santa Fe Opera, New Orleans Opera, and the Seattle Opera, where he sang {…}

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Anna Netrebko’s Lawyers File Supplemental Complaint Against Peter Gelb & the Met Opera for Defamatory Statements

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Anna Netrebko’s team has filed a supplemental complaint against the Metropolitan Opera and Peter Gelb, addressing defamatory statements made by the Met’s General Manager. In the letter to the court accompanying the draft complaint filed on July 24, 2025, the soprano’s lawyer Julie Ulmet said, “As alleged in the proposed supplemental complaint, subsequent to Plaintiff’s commencement of this litigation, Gelb {…}

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Atalla Ayan, Michael Volle, Franz Hawlata, Evelyn Herlitzius, Claudia Muschio & Anna Princeva Lead Staatsoper Stuttgart’s 2025-26 Season

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The Staatsoper Stuttgart has announced its 2025-26 season. Premieres  Sebastian Schwab conducts “I Did it My Way” by Nina Simone and Frank Sinatra. Ivo van Hove directs a cast that includes  Lars Eidinger and Larissa Sirah Herden. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-28, 2025 Janáček’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” will get a new production by Stephan Kimmig. Ariane Matiakh conducts a cast {…}

DVD and CD Releases, News

Anna Netrebko, Edgardo Rocha, Zuzana Marková & Giuseppina Bridelli Lead New CD/DVD Releases

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Welcome back to another look at the latest CD and DVD releases of the week. This week audiences will get a new release from Anna Netrebko for the first time in two years, a world premiere video recording of a rare work by Donizetti, and a complete performance of a Bach work on YouTube. Giacomo Puccini: Turandot Anna Netrebko’s acclaimed {…}

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Opera Holland Park Announces 2026 Season

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Opera Holland Park has announced its 2026 season, celebrating its 30th anniversary. The season will open with a production of Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West.” The season also includes a new production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte,” which will also be performed by our 2026 Young Artists. The festival will also reimagine “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Will Todd and {…}

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Tulsa Opera & Spotlight on Opera Announce Summer Programming

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Tulsa Opera’s newest educational partner, Spotlight on Opera at Tulsa Opera, is bringing nearly 40 students and faculty members from across the US to study, train, and perform in Tulsa this July and August. The festival-style season includes Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana,” Verdi’s “La traviata,” a concert gala of Puccini’s “Tosca,” “The Hiding Tree” a touring children’s opera, and a series {…}