Menu

217 search results for…

News

How To Watch Salzburg’s ‘Wozzeck’

https://operawire.com/how-to-watch-salzburgs-wozzeck/

For audiences anticipating the Metropolitan Opera’s upcoming 2019-20 production of Berg’s “Wozzeck,” they are in luck as Medici.tv and the Salzburg Festival are teaming to present it. On August 27, the opera will be streamed through Medici.TV allowing audiences around the world to see the acclaimed production by William Kentridge. The opera, which premiered on August 8, scored rave reviews {…}
News

Critics Praise for Kentridge’s Gruesome Production for ‘Wozzeck’ at Salzburg Festival 2017

https://operawire.com/critics-praise-for-kentridges-gruesome-production-for-wozzeck-at-salzburg-festival-2017/

Following its opening at Austria’s Salzburg Festival, William Kentridge’s production of Wozzeck will be coming to the Metropolitan Opera in 2019. And by the looks of it, Met audiences are primed for a major treat. Shirley Apthorp of Financial Times describes the artistic direction of Kentridge’s Wozzeck as “grim sketches and animations, a return to his earlier medium of charcoal {…}
News

Domenico Muti Resigns from Position at Teatro La Fenice

https://operawire.com/domenico-muti-resigns-from-position-at-teatro-la-fenice/

Domenico Muti, an art administrator and the son of conductor Riccardo Muti, has announce the termination of his three-year contract as advisor to the Teatro La Fenice. In a letter to director of the Teatro La Fenice, Nicola Colabianchi,  Muti said, “Unfortunately, the climate that has been created does not allow me to continue my work with the necessary composure. {…}
News

Alan Gilbert Extends Contract with Royal Swedish Opera

https://operawire.com/alan-gilbert-extends-contract-with-royal-swedish-opera-jan-15-6-am/

Conductor Alan Gilbert has renewed his contract as Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera (RSO) until the end of 2029, with possibility of further extension. The conductor began his tenure with the company in 2021, and was named Royal Court Kapellmeister by the King of Sweden a year later. In a statement regarding his extension Gilbert said, “Sweden is {…}
News

Deborah Warner Appointed Artistic Director of Park Avenue Armory

https://operawire.com/deborah-warner-appointed-artistic-director-of-park-avenue-armory/

Park Avenue Armory has announced the appointment of Deborah Warner as its Anita K. Hersh Artistic Director. Warner is a well-pknown director in theater, opera, and unexpected stagings for more than four decades. She launched her career in 1980 when she founded the Kick Theatre Company, staging works by Shakespeare, Brecht, and Büchner, which forged her reputation as a powerful {…}
Business, News

Tamara Mumford Joins Fletcher Artist Management

https://operawire.com/tamara-mumford-joins-fletcher-artist-management/

(Credit: Fay Fox) Mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford has joined Fletcher Artist Management.  Mumford is a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and has sung at the Met in multiple productions including “Anna Bolena,” “Rigoletto,” “Ariadne auf Naxos,” “Wozzeck,” “The Magic Flute,” and Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle, which have all been included in The Met: LIVE in HD {…}
News

Teatro La Fenice Workers Denied Public Statement During Opening Night of ‘La Clemenza di Tito’

https://operawire.com/teatro-la-fenice-workers-denied-public-statement-during-opening-night-of-la-clemenza-di-tito/

The Teatro La Fenice’s management has denied the theater’s workers’ representatives an opportunity to read a brief statement before the inauguration of the 2025-26 season on Nov. 20. The La Fenice Theatre Union informed the public and the press in a statement and called the action “another sign of an increasingly closed, authoritarian management structure impervious to dialogue.” The union {…}
Business, News

Canadian Opera Company Announces Growth in 2024-25 Season

https://operawire.com/canadian-opera-company-announces-growth-in-2024-25-season/

The Canadian Opera Company has announced that the 2024-25 season saw more new audiences looking to experience live opera through the COC’s exciting lineup of newly commissioned opera and brand new-to-Toronto productions. The company also noted that the community-rooted work to broaden opera awareness and accessibility has also been seeing notable gains. In a statement, COC General Director David Ferguson {…}

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