Welcome back for the first edition of 2026’s CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. The year kicks off with star-studded new releases including a new Verdi recording and an Offenbach opera that features some of today’s greatest performers. Luigi Gordigiani: Romantic Florence – Songs For Voice And Piano Dynamic releases mezzo-soprano Marina Comparato’s latest album. She is {…}
It is time to wrap up the year and look back at our favorite moments and performers. After releasing our favorite performances of 2025 and showcasing our rising stars of the year, it’s time for OperaWire’s annual tradition of naming our top singers of the year, honoring the opera stars that had major, and in some cases, career-defining, years. So without further ado {…}
The International Opera Awards have announced their 2025 winners. The big prize of the evening, Opera Company of the Year, went to Theater an der Wien. The singers who took top prizes included Marina Rebeka, who won the coveted Reader’s Choice Award, while Adèle Charvet and Hugh Cutting received the Rising Star Award. Meanwhile, Nicholas Brownlee won the Male Singer {…}
Marina Rebeka has received the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. The soprano took to social media and said, “Yesterday night I was honored with this prestigious award at Latvian National Opera by Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, Ambassadeur de France en Lettonie and in the presence of President of Latvian Republic Edgars Rinkēvičs. This came at the end of {…}
(© Beyond The Image Media) The Royal Ballet & Opera has announced a major cast change for “I Vespri Siciliani.” The company revealed that Marina Rebeka has withdrawn from performances of the opera due to illness. In her stead, Joyce El-Khoury will perform the role of Hélène in all performances except for the one on Oct. 3, 2025. For that {…}
Marina Rebeka has joined GM Art&Music for Worldwide General Management. Gianluca Macheda will manage Rebeka. The soprano is one of the leading sopranos of our time who has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House, Opéra de Paris, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, and Carnegie Hall. Recently, at the Teatro alla Scala, she sang the role of {…}
The Arena di Verona has announced the full program for Jonas Kaufmann’s August 3, 2025, gala. The company said that for one night only, Kaufmann will perform music by Wagner and Puccini alongside soprano Marina Rebeka. Maestro Jochen Rieder will take the baton to conduct the Fondazione Arena Orchestra. The program will include overtures, arias, intermezzi, scenes, and duets. The {…}
(Photo by Eaolovega) The Teatro alla Scala has announced that Marina Rebeka has withdrawn from the July 17, 2025 performance of “Norma.” She will be replaced by soprano Jessica Pratt. Rebeka had also canceled the July 11 performance due to illness and was replaced by Marta Torbidoni. In that same message she had communicated her intention to return for the {…}
(Photo Credit: Michele Monasta) The Teatro alla Scala has announced a cast change for its upcoming performances of “Norma.” Soprano Marina Rebeka took to social media and noted that she has withdrawn from the July 11 performance of the title role. “”Dear friends, I am so sorry to announce that I will not be able to sing tomorrow’s performance of {…}
On July 19, the Teatro Real will broadcast the iconic Willy Decker production of “La Traviata,” marking 20 years since the production premiered. When it opened in 2005, it became an instant classic for its modern, minimalist approach and its stark staging focusing on the three main characters. The production also emphasized time and Violetta’s impending death through a large {…}
(Photo: Brescia e Amisano) It is rather curious that one of the most emblematic titles in the operatic canon has been staged so rarely on such an iconic stage as Teatro alla Scala: “Norma” by Vincenzo Bellini, which had its world premiere there in 1831 with Giuditta Pasta in the title role. That said, the few times it has returned {…}