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Sonya Yoncheva, Lucy Crowe, Ausrine Stundyte, Davóne Tines & Julia Bullock Lead LA Philharmonic’s 2026-27 Season

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The LA Philharmonic has announced its 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Handel’s “Messiah” with Lucy Crowe, Carlo Vistoli, Lunga Eric Hallam, and Ashley Riches. Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2026 Emmanuelle Haïm conducts Le Concert d’Astrée Choir in the Christmas concert featuring Corelli and Vivaldi. Performance Date: Dec. 18-20, 2026 Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Schoenberg, Webern, and Mahler {…}
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 {…}
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Cast Change: Larissa Diadkova Joins Cast of ‘Eugene Onegin’ at Metropolitan Opera

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The Metropolitan opera has announced a second cast change for its production of “Eugene Onegin.” The company said that mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova will sing the role of Filippyevna, replacing Stephanie Blythe, who has withdrawn. Diadkova made her company debut in 1996 singing Madelon in Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” and has since performed Azucena in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” Amneris in Verdi’s “Aida,” Herodias {…}
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Cast Change: Iurii Samoilov to Sing Title Role of ‘Eugene Onegin’ at Metropolitan Opera

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The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its production of “Eugene Onegin.” The company said that Ukrainian Baritone Iurii Samoilov will sing the title role, replacing the originally scheduled Russian baritone Igor Golovatenko. Golovatenko also recently canceled a new production of “Rigoletto” at the Bayerische Staatsoper and “Un Ballo in Maschera” at the Paris Opera. Samoilov made his {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

Curtis Opera Theatre 2025-26 Review: La Passion de Simone

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Photo: Wide Eyed Studios On February 26, 2026, Curtis Opera Theatre presented something that was… unique. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952–2023) deliberately stripped away the familiar scaffolding of opera—no heroes, no villains, no tidy narrative arc—and replaced it with something closer to performance art with a score. Sung in French with English supertitles, “La Passion de Simone” is a 75-minute, {…}
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NY Times Prints Article Spotlighting Met Opera Financial Hardship One Day Before Company Reopens Season with Sold Out Production

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On March 9, the Metropolitan Opera will reopen for the back-half of its 2025-26 season. At the core of that reopening will be its new production of “Tristan und Isolde,” headlined by Lise Davidsen and selling so well that another show had to be added. While that would suggest a wave of positivity for the company heading into the final {…}
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Metropolitan Opera Adds One Performance of ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Due to High Demand

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(Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera has added an additional performance of “Tristan und Isolde” due to overwhelming demand. The company said that the additional performance will be on April 4, at 12 p.m. and tickets will go on sale on Monday, March 9, at 12 p.m. ET. The cast will include soprano Lise Davidsen as Isolde, {…}
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English National Opera Announces London Run of ‘Angel’s Bone’

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The English National Opera has announced that Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s “Angel’s Bone” will be performed at the London Coliseum in October 2026. The opera will be performed after its UK premiere in Greater Manchester in May, which was announced a few months ago. The cast will include Allison Cook, Rodney Earl Clarke, Matthew McKinney, Mariam Wallentin, and Keith Pun. {…}
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Opera Industry Reacts to Timothée Chalamet’s Comments that ‘No One Cares’ About Opera

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(Credit: A24) The opera industry is responding to Timothée Chalamet’s remarks that said “no one cares” about opera or ballet. Major houses like the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, LA Opera, and Wiener Staatsoper have taken to social media posting varying messages. The Met showed a video of the many artisans in the industry with the caption “All Respect to opera {…}

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