One day after the announcement that General Director Michael Capasso is retiring, New York City Opera announces the “installation” of Music Director and Principal Conductor Constantine Orbelian as Executive Director.
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The first clip of Pablo Larraín‘s Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie has been released
Opera Philadelphia confirms reports that countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will serve as its next General Director and President, taking the place of the dearly departing David Devan.
Lisette Oropesa has announced she will sing Norma “in the future.”
A Welsh opera singer has said the art must have more LGBTQ+ representation if it is to survive.
David Daniels has just confided that he has this week received two singing engagement offers in Europe.
Renowned musical artist Jonas Kaufmann has returned to his first true love, recording dated kitsch.
The charismatic soprano has just canceled tomorrow afternoon’s performance of Tosca at the Met.
Helena Dix goes on for the broadcast this afternoon!
“For this evening’s performance of Norma (March 22, 2023), Norma will now be sung by Helena Dix, replacing Sonya Yoncheva.”
Protean Anna Netrebko has booked her first performances of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda .
Six contemporary operas, including four Metropolitan premieres, headline the company’s upcoming season, which was announced today at noon.
Coming soon: an opera adaptation of the cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili has canceled all her remaining Met performances of Aida due to illness.
On Thursday, October 20th, 2022, Grace Bumbry suffered an acute ischemic stroke. The renowned American opera star is currently hospitalized and in recovery in Queens, New York.
The Metropolitan Opera and other classical music venue are dropping their mask requirements for audience members.
Tenor Yusif Eyvazov, who was scheduled to sing Rodolfo in the upcoming four performances of Puccini’s La bohème, is ill and has withdrawn.
Soprano Angel Blue has been named the winner of the 2022 Richard Tucker Award.
Anna Netrebko has issued a statement explicitly condemning the war in Ukraine.
“Eleonora Buratto will make her role debut as Elisabeth de Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo in the 2022–23 season, replacing Anna Netrebko for the first five performances of the run.”
As we continue to watch the world of live performance come cautiously back to post-COVID levels, I felt the greatest surge of joy so far when I saw Opera Philadelphia’s announcement of their 2022-23 season—and most especially, the reboot of Festival O.
“Plus, he never laid a glove on those kids.” — Jonas Kaufmann, probably.
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