Grammy and Emmy Award-winning baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. met with OperaWire to discuss his exciting 2025-26 season.

Operawire met up with one of its stars, the young Russian soprano Anastasiya Taratorkina, who was performing the role of ...

Rai Radio 3 is set to broadcast Verdi’s “Giovanna d’Arco” on May 10, 2025. The performance from the Teatro Regio di Parma stars Luciano Ganci as Carlo VII, Nino Machaidze as Giovanna, Ariunbaatar ...

Last week, President Donald J. Trump threatened to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for good by gutting its funding under the new budget proposal. In response, and not for the first ...

A $4.6 million gift from Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield, Rex Sinquefield, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation will ensure University of Missouri students continue to create new works through the Mizzou ...

Opera Vlaanderen has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the operas and vocal performances. Alejo Pérez conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal” in a production by Susanne Kennedy. Benjamin Bruns, ...

One of the highlights, if not the highlight, of La Monnaie’s 2024–25 season must be its world premiere of Monteverdi’s new opera “I Grotteschi,” a mammoth work, lasting almost seven hours, not ...

After months of lobbying, the Metropolitan Opera has received $5 million in one-time operating support from the State of New York. According to a press release by AGMA members who work at the ...

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra has announced its 2025 Resilience Tour set for this August. The tour will take the ensemble through Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lucerne, Vilnius, Jürmala, Bucharest, Amsterdam, ...

City Lyric Opera is set to present “Black Water” by Jeremy Beck and “Savior” by Amy Beth Kirsten. The double bill of chamber operas interrogates female agency across time and will run between May 15 ...

Dominique Meyer has been named the new president of the Teatro Sociale di Como – AsLiCo. The news was announced on May 5 after the board of directors elected Meyer. Meyer was recently the General ...

The Royal Opera House has announced a new cast change for its production of “Faust.” The company announced Erwin Schrott has pulled out of performances on May 23, 25, 28, and 30, 2025, and will be ...