The Tanglewood Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons lead a Mozart and Mahler program with soloists pianist Emanuel Ax and soprano Erin Morley. Performance Date: July 11, 2026 Les Arts Florissants and William Christie will perform Charpentier’s “Les Arts florissants and La Descente d’Orphée aux {…}
Mexico City’s Ópera de Bellas Artes has announced its 2026 season. Opera The season open with Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny,” in a production by Marcelo Lombardero. Srba Dinić conducts the opera. Performance Dates: March 2026 Manuel de Fallas’ “La vida breve” and “El amor brujo” will be performed in a double bill in {…}
The Glimmerglass Festival has announced its 2026 season. Here is a look at the productions. Mainstage Productions The season opens with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” Francesca Zambello directs the production and James Lowe conducts. The work stars Shereen Pimentel, Michael Adams, Erik Nordstrom, Kate Morton, Peter Murphy, Reed Gnepper, and Troy Cook. Performance Dates: July 10-August 15, 2026 Joshua Horowitz revives {…}
The Spoleto Festival USA has announced its 2026 season. The season will showcase “The Old Maid and the Thief,” a Spoleto production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1939 radio opera, is reimagined as a live radio-drama with hand-crafted sound effects, period microphones, and on-stage musicians, creating a witty, immersive, and accessible entry point for opera newcomers. Performance Dates: May 22, 25,27, {…}
The Palm Beach Opera has announced its 2026 season. Anita Hartig and Yunuet Laguna lead Puccini’s “La Bohème“ with Liparit Avetisyan, Oreste Cosimo, Edward Parks, Sydney Mancasola, Solomon Howard, Mario Manzo, and Donald Maxwell. Vincenzo Milletarì conducts the production by Peter Kazaras. Performance Dates: Jan. 23-25, 2026 Bizet’s “The Pearl Fishers“ will star Francesca Pia Vitale, Aigul Khismatullina, Long Long, {…}
The Baltic Opera Festival has announced its 2026 season. The opera that will be performed this season is Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Artistic Director Tomasz Konieczny will sing the role of Wotan making his first appearance with the festival. Performance Dates: July 2 & 5, 2026 The season will also include “Polskie Wesele.” Performance Dates: July 3 & 4, 2026 Further {…}
The Rossini Opera Festival has announced the 2026 edition, which will celebrate its 47th edition. The festival will take place between August 11 and 23, 2026. The festival will open with a new production of “Le Siège de Corinthe” conducted by Carlo Rizzi and directed by Davide Livermore. The production will star Adrian Sâmpetrean, Matteo Roma, Maxim Mironov, Simon Orfila, {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced its 2026 season. The season will open with a new production of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Michele Spotti and Francesco Ivan Ciampa conduct the new production starring Martina Russomanno, Gilda Fiume and Rosa Feola. The casts also include Yusif Eyvazov, Galeano Salas, Francesco Meli, René Barbera, Adam Smith, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Mihai Damian, Youngjun Park, Ludovic {…}
The Bronx Opera has announced its 2026 program. The first opera of the season will be Mozart’s “Idomeneo,” which will be sung in English. The opera stars Emma Robertson, James Danner, Miastasha Gonzalez-Colon, Samantha Long, Matthew Youngblood, Rashard Deleston, Gordon Blodgett, Zachary Tirgan, James Cottone, Vianca Alejandra, and Caitlin Caruso Dobbs. Performance Dates: Feb. 12 & 14, 2026 The second {…}
The Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi has been announced its 2026 season. “Le Peripezie di Pinco Pallino” will be performed as a new commission. Performance Dates: April 19-21, 2026 Bizet’s “Carmen” will get a new production Performance Dates: May 2026 Gaspare Spontini’s “Li Finti Filosofi” will get a new production. Performance Dates: July 2026 Puccini’s “Il Trittico” will be performed in {…}
(Photo credit: Andrew Eccles) Festival Napa Valley has announced its 2026 summer season, which runs from July 4–19, 2026. The season opens with Festival Live! Concerts, a series of daily performances showcasing Festival artists in rotating programs presented in partnership with the Frost School of Music’s Blackburn Music Academy at CIA at Copia. Performance Dates: July 4–18, 2026 Festival Napa {…}
