The Greek National Opera has announced that Elīna Garanča will sing the title role of “Tosca.” The mezzo-soprano will make her role debut on Jan. 24 and 28 and it will mark her first collaboration with the Greek National Opera. Pier Giorgio Morandi will conduct the production by Nikos S. Petropoulos with Charles Castronovo in the role of Cavaradossi, while {…}
(Photo: © Wiener Staatsoper / Marcel Urlaub) Few operas blur the line between theatrical fiction and real-world tragedy quite as dramatically as Francesco Cilea’s “Adriana Lecouvreur.” Premiered in 1902 at the height of Italian verismo, the work dramatizes the glamorous life and mysterious, poison-laced death of the historic 18th-century Comédie-Française actress. Driven by a lush score rich in soaring melodies, {…}
The Royal Opera House Muscat has announced its 2026-27 season. Opera The company revives its production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto” by Franco Zeffirelli. The cast will include Franco Vassallo, Enea Scala, and Maria Kokareva, with the orchestra and choir conducted by Evelino Pidò. The Omani Opera Choir will also perform. Performance Dates: Oct. 1 & 3, 2026 “Sindbad: The Omani Sailor,” {…}
The Palau de la Musica Valencia has announced its 2026-27 season. Catriona Morison and Adam Fischer perform Mahler’s symphony No. 3. Performance Date: Oct. 20, 2026 Emöke Baráth, Teresa Iervolino, Cameron Shahbazi, Jorge Navarro-Colorado, and Benjamin Appl will perform a Bach program of Cantatas with Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting. Performance Date: Nov. 6, 2026 Elīna Garanča and Michael Weinius perform excerpts from {…}
The Salzburg Festival has announced a cast change for its production of Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The company said that Christina Nilsson will take on the dual role of Primadonna/Ariadne, making her debut at the Salzburg Festival this summer replacing the originally announced Elīna Garanča, who has withdrawn. Garanča said in a statement, “I accepted the offer from the Salzburg {…}
First performed in 1846, “La Damnation de Faust” remains one of Hector Berlioz’s most audacious and elusive works: neither fully opera nor oratorio, but a hybrid “dramatic legend” that defies conventional staging and genre. Drawing on Goehte’s “Faust” while filtering the story through Berlioz’s intensely Romantic imagination, the piece moves with feverish speed from pastoral lyricism to infernal spectacle, {…}
(Photo credit: Watson, Leedom, Gibson, Filip) Les Grandes Voix | Les Grands Solistes announces 2026-27 season. Here’s a look at the vocal performances. A concert version of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” stars Huw Montague Rendall, Emöke Baráth, Lauranne Oliva, Adrien Fournaison, Eva Zaïcik, Diana Montague, Jennifer Courcier, Raphaël Brémard, and Nicolas Brooymans. Francesco Corti conducts B’Rock Orchestra. Performance Date: {…}
The Royal Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. New Productions Evgeny Titov directs a new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” conducted by Jakub Hrůša. Stanislas de Barbeyrac sings the title role, with Ekaterina Gubanova as Kundry, Christian Gerhaher as Amfortas, Brindley Sherratt as Gurnemanz, and Mark Stone as Klingsor. Performance Dates: Oct. 1–17, 2026 Philipp Stölzl directs a new production of {…}
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 {…}
The Opernhaus Zürich has announced its 2026-27 season. Premiere The season opens with Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” conducted by Tamo Peltokoski and Erina Yashima. The new production will be directed by Daniele Finzi Pasca and will star Magnus Dietrich, Tobias Kehrer, Regula Mühlemann, Jasmin Delfs, Johan Krogius, Brent Michael Smith, Kathrin Zukowski, Alina Wunderlin, Yannick Debus, Andrew Moore, and Evan Gray. {…}
The Wiener Konzerthaus has announced its 2026-27 season. Here is a look at the vocal performances. VOCES8 leads a program of music by William Byrd, Virgil Thomson, Caroline Shaw, Morten Lauridsen, William Billings, Bobby McFerrin, Eric Whitacre, Taylor Scott Davis, Samuel Barber, Richard Rodgers, and Billy Strayhorn. Performance Date: Sept. 16, 2026 The Mahler Academy Orchestra will be joined by Fleur Barron and Philipp von Steinaecker in music by Mahler. Performance {…}