Madison Opera has announced its 2026-27 season. Keely Futterer leads Bellini’s “Norma” with Katherine Beck, Joshua Stewart, and Wm. Clay Thompson. John DeMain conducts the production by Fenlon Lamb. Performance Dates: Oct. 30 & Nov. 1, 2026 Flora Hawk, Alexandra Burch, Madison Barrett, David Blalock, Ryan Nash, and Matt Boehler star in “Postcard from Morocco” with Kyle Naig conducting and Kristine {…}
La Monnaie de Mont has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera The season opens with Verdi’s “Falstaff” starring Simon Keenlyside in the title role, Lionel Lhote, Bogdan Volkov, Sally Matthews, Benedetta Torres, and Daniela Barcellona. Alain Altinoglu and Ouri Bronchti alternate and Laurent Pelly directs the new production. Performance Dates: Sept. 21-Oct. 9, 2025 Ricard Soler Mallol and Grey Filastine showcase {…}
American tenor and jazz artist Joshua Stewart has launched the new record label, Saint Seba Records. With 30 years of international experience in performance and music business, Stewart has created a label specifically for vocalists. Stewart told OperaWire, “The beauty of this label is that it is not focused on one specific genre, but one specific instrument—the voice.” Saint Seba {…}
The Theater St. Gallen is set to present Kris Defoort and Peter van Kraaij’s “The Time of Our Singing.” The opera, which will premiere on March 11, 2023, is set to run through April 23, 2023, for a total of six performances. It will star Claron McFadden, Mark S. Doss, Kristján Jóhannesson, Joshua Stewart, Naomi Simmonds, Markel Reed, Jennifer Panara, {…}
The Curtis Institute of Music has announced its first-ever Young Alumni Fund grantees. The fund will provide recent graduates of Curtis with financial awards to remove barriers to their success as emerging performers and advance their personal artistic visions. Among other notable proposals, these awards will support community and non-profit organizations founded by alumni, production of new commercial film and {…}
This week audiences will get a chance to stream rarely performed works and new albums by some of the best-known artists in opera. Here is a look. Beethoven Warner Classics releases Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano latest album which is dedicated to Beethoven’s song cycle “An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved).” The album also includes the rapturously {…}