Mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili has canceled all her remaining Met performances of Aida due to illness.
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
The Metropolitan Opera and other classical music venue are dropping their mask requirements for audience members.
By La Cieca
Tenor Yusif Eyvazov, who was scheduled to sing Rodolfo in the upcoming four performances of Puccini’s La bohème, is ill and has withdrawn.
By La Cieca
Soprano Angel Blue has been named the winner of the 2022 Richard Tucker Award.
By La Cieca
Anna Netrebko has issued a statement explicitly condemning the war in Ukraine.
By La Cieca
“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.”
By La Cieca
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.
By David Fox
“Plus, he never laid a glove on those kids.” — Jonas Kaufmann, probably.
By La Cieca
“It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera,” said Met General Manager Peter Gelb.
By La Cieca
In a busy flurry of Instagram posts earlier today, Anna Netrebko announced a temporary withdrawal from her performing career.
By La Cieca
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-2023 season will offer seven new productions including the world-premiere staging of The Hours and the company premieres of Champion and Medea.
By La Cieca
Tantalizing tenor Michael Fabiano adds a new role to his repertoire barely five weeks from today.
By La Cieca
San Francisco Opera prepares to barge down the Nile.
By La Cieca
“The design of the Met’s new production [of Lucia di Lammermoor] by Simon Stone suggests a present-day American Rust Belt, an area once prosperous but now fallen into decline and neglect.”
By La Cieca
Jamie Barton will sing Eboli in the Met’s new production of the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, replacing Elina Garanca, who has withdrawn.
By La Cieca
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.
By La Cieca
Jennifer Hudson “honors” Aretha Franklin by singing “Nessun dorma.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca has received a copy of a message, apparently from the Metropolitan Opera, announcing the departure of Diane Zola from the company.
By La Cieca
At long last the plans for the Met’s 2017 New Year’s Eve Gala are to be realized.
By La Cieca
Awesome, astounding, Asiatic Anna Netrebko sings Puccini and Puccini/Alfano at the Arena di Verona.
By La Cieca
Should the new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera The Lord of Cries be renamed The Lord of Crisis?
By La Cieca
