OperaFest LA returns in 2026, continuing the collaborative celebration of opera across Los Angeles. The Wallis hosts the “OperaFest LA Kickoff “Panel and Performance. Performance Date:April 11, 2026 (The Wallis) Long Beach Opera presents “Central Park Five.” Performance Date: April 11, 2026 (440 Elm, Long Beach) The Industry hosts “Listening Parties” which blend live performances with recorded work and conversation {…}
(Photo credit: Jonathan Tichler) The Lincoln Center announces its 2025-26 season. This article only features classical vocal performances. Countertenor Key’mon Murrah makes his Lincoln Center debut in the world premiere of a one-of-a-kind theatrical recital from James Blaszko. Performance Date: October 23, 2025 Lincoln Center Visionary Artist, Jeanine Tesori leads “Come & Sing,” a participatory community choir. The event is {…}
(Credits: Rundquist, Morrison, Linder, Kramer) The Frick Collection announces its lineup for the 2025-26 season. This article only features vocal concerts. Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout present an intimate Schubertiade featuring “Schwanengesang.” Performance Date: October 12, 2025 Paul Agnew leads Les Arts Florissants in vocal music of the Seventeenth-Eighteenth-Century Spain, France, and Italy Performance Date: October 26, {…}
Les Talens Lyriques releases its 2025-26 season. Lully’s “Proserpine” opens the 2025 season. Marie Lys, Véronique Gens, Olivier Gourdy, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Ambroisine Bré, Laurent Kilsby, Apolline Raï-Westphal, Nick Pritchard, Olivier Cesarini, and David Witczak make up the cast. They are joined by Chœur de Chambre de Namur led by Thibaut Lenaerts, and Les Talens Lyriques under the direction of Christophe {…}
(Photo: Jeremy Kramer) Countertenor Key’mon Murrah has joined IMG Artists for European Management. Murrah will be represented by Artist Manager Callan Coughlan. In a statement, Murrah said, “I’m so excited to be working with the team at IMGA and Callan Coughlan. They’ve had a long standing reputation for supporting their artists’ careers, and I know they will do the same {…}
(Photo credit: Jeremy Kramer) The Washington National Opera will present Key’mon Murrah in the Marian Anderson Vocal Award Recital on Dec. 17, 204 at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. The countertenor will be joined by pianist Brian Zeger in a program that features arias from such operas as Rossini’s “Zelmira” and Händel’s “Rinaldo” and “Ariodante.” There will be songs by {…}
(Photo: Eric Woolsey) For their 2024 mainstage summer festival season, Opera Theatre Saint Louis (OTSL) paired two fixtures in top-ten performance frequency, “The Barber of Seville” and “La Bohème,” with two exciting, less offered menu items. Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002) received just its fourth staging anywhere, while George Frideric Händel’s operatic capolavoro, “Julius Caesar” (“Giulio Cesare in Egitto,” 1724) {…}
Photo credit: L2 Artists The Giulio Gari Foundation’s 2023 competition winners will give the Winners Recital on Oct. 15. First prize winner countertenor Key’mon Murrah performs with second through fifth place winners, bass-baritone Le Bu, bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi, mezzo-soprano Cierra Byrd, and soprano Amanda Batista, respectively. Also featured on the program are grand prize winners soprano Chanae Curtis and baritone {…}
The Giulio Gari Foundation is set to present a gala on Oct. 15, 2023. The showcase will feature the 2023 winners including Key’mon Murrah, Le Bu, Amanda Batista, Chanea Curtis, Chelsea Lehnea, Younggwang Park, Joseph Sacchi, and Spencer Reichman. They will be accompanied by Mary Pinto. The event will be honor Christine Goerke and Eve Queller with Ken Benson hosting. {…}
Jasmine Barnes’ new work, commissioned by Aural Compass Projects “The Greatest Personal Privation” will make its premiere next month. Countertenor Key’mon Murrah and pianist Donald Lee III will bring to life Barnes’ score and Poet Laureate (2017-2019) and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith’s words. Also on the program is Barnes’ song cycle “Might Call You Art” for Soprano and {…}
The Detroit Opera has announced its 2022-23 season. The season opens with Wagner’s “Die Walküre: Act III.” Yuval Sharon directs the act with Sir Andrew Davis conducting. The production will feature a high-tech treatment of the most famous act in Wagner’s Ring Cycle with Christine Goerke starring. Performance dates: Sept. 17-20, 2022 Valerio Galli conducts Gounod’s “Faust” in a production {…}
