Aigul Akhmetshina, Michael Fabiano, Marina Rebeka, Pretty Yende, Sara Blanch & Jessica Pratt Lead Tiroler Festspiele Erl’s 2025-26 Season

The Tiroler Festspiele Erl has announced its 2025-26 season. Autumn Season Holger Falk will perform alongside Herbert Schuch, Vivi Vassileva, and Musicbanda Franui. Performance Date: Oct. 2, 2025 Julian Prégardien, Herbert Schuch, and Musicbanda Franui will perform in concert. Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2025 Winter Season Johann Sebastian Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium will be performed by Elisabeth Breuer, Ulrike Malotta, Gideon Poppe, {…}

Apr 2, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Freddie De Tommaso, Marina Rebeka, Bryn Terfel, Aigul Akhmetshina, Lisette Oropesa, Juan Diego Flórez & Pretty Yende Lead Royal Ballet & Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Oliver Mears. Anna Netrebko and Aleksandra Kurzak share the title role. Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley also star. Performance Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 7, 2025 Speranza Scappucci conducts Verdi’s “I vespri siciliani” in a revival of Stefan Herheim’s production. Marina {…}

Mar 27, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Sonya Yoncheva, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Volle, Anja Kampe, Serena Sáenz, Lisette Oropesa & Ludovic Tézier Lead Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s 2025-26 Season

The Staatsoper Berlin has unveiled its 2025-26 season. Premieres Bertrand de Billy conducts Lydia Steier’s new production of Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann.” The cast includes Pene Pati, Nina Minasyan, Julia Kleiter, Clara Nadeshdin, Roberto Tagliavini, and Ema Nikolovska. A second cast will include Benjamin Bernheim, Regina Koncz, Siobhan Stagg, Clara Nadeshdin, Alex Esposito, and Samantha Hankey. Pierre Dumoussaud conducts. Performance {…}

Mar 22, 2025

Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Sonya Yoncheva, Pretty Yende, Marina Rebeka Headline Théâtre des Champs-Élysées’s 2025-26 Season

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Productions Jakob Lehmann conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” in a production by Silvia Costa. Benjamin Bernheim, Viktoria Karkacheva, Christian Van Horn, and Thomas Dolié star. Performance Dates: Nov. 3-15, 2025 Offenbach’s “Robinson Crusoé” will be conducted by Marc Minkowski and directed by Laurent Pelly. Lawrence Brownlee, Julie Fuchs, Laurent {…}

Mar 12, 2025

Royal Ballet and Opera Announces Cast Change for ‘Il Trovatore’

The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced a cast change for its March 13 performance of “Il Trovatore.” The company said that Marina Rebeka will sing the role of Leonora replacing Rachel Willis- Sørensen, who is ill. Rebeka took to her social media and said, “Dear friends, I am so happy to be back in London. Tomorrow I will be {…}

Feb 26, 2025

Marina Rebeka Joins Ibermusica Artists

Marina Rebeka has joined Ibermusica Artists for representation in Spain and Portugal in concerts, recitals, and symphonic repertoire. She will be represented by Aleix Palau and Èlia Tell. Rebeka is one of the leading sopranos of her generation who has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, Vienna State Opera and {…}

Feb 10, 2025

Wiener Staatsoper Announces Cast Change for ‘Il Trovatore’

The Wiener Staatsoper has announced a cast change for its Feb. 11 performance of “Il Trovatore.” The company said that Marina Rebeka will sing the role of Leonora replacing the originally scheduled Maria Agresta. Rebeka has performed the role of Leonora at the Royal Opera House and the Zurich Opera House. She is well known for her Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, {…}

Dec 23, 2024

Best of 2024: OperaWire’s Top 11 Singers of the Year

It is time to wrap up the year and look back at our favorite moments and performers. After releasing our favorite performances of 2024 and showcasing our rising stars of the year, it’s time for OperaWire’s annual tradition of naming our top 11 singers of the year, performers that we thought stood out. Performers who had major breaks, headlined major productions or simply had {…}

Oct 11, 2024

Prima Classic Hints at ‘Simon Boccanegra’ Recording

Prima Classic is hinting at a new recording of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra.” The recording company posted a picture of the Teatro San Carlo’s poster of the current cast of the Verdi opera and said, “‘Simon Boccanegra!’ Something is going on…” The cast for the upcoming concert performances includes Ludovic Tézier in the title role, Michele Pertusi as Jacopo Fiesco, Mattia Olivieri as {…}

Aug 22, 2024

CD Review: Prima Classic’s ‘Norma’

(Prima Classics) Few operas have so inextricably been linked with the name of Maria Callas as “Norma.” The first perhaps in a line of 20th century Neoclassicists, she dusted off every inch of (pseudo-)Romantic mannerism and histrionics, restituting to the playbills an uncompromisingly sympathetic interpretation of tragic grandeur, as if sprung from the pen of Jean Racine himself. Callas’s following {…}

Jul 11, 2024

Teatro San Carlo Announces Cast Change for ‘La Traviata’

The Teatro San Carlo has announced a cast change for its opening night of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” The company said, “We inform our audience that, due to a sudden illness of Lisette Oropesa, the role of Violetta Valéry, for the première of ‘La Traviata,’ on stage on July 14, 2024, will be performed by Marina Rebeka.” Oropesa took to social {…}

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