In September, countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński released #LetsBaRock, a crossover album that experiments with baroque ...

The recording boasts an impressive cast, under the baton of Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducting the Orchestre National Montpellier ...

In anticipation of the evening, OperaWire spoke to Rodriguez about his collaboration with the soprano and his experience as ...

Edmond Dédé’s 'Morgiane'" in four cities across the U.S. including New Orleans, Washington, DC, New York City, and College ...

Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize and receiving great acclaim following its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1958, Barber and ...

Romanian-Hungarian mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi is described as possessing a “deeper dark voice” and has been predicted to be the “the Verdi mezzo of the next years.” Born in Timisoara, Romania, she ...

First of all, the choice made to cast Buzza and Battistelli in the roles at all seem an odd choice given the amount of other young singers there who hold much higher competencies in both singing, ...

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The Berkshire Opera Festival announces its 10th anniversary season. A free family concert kicks off the 2025 season.

“Il Segreto di Susanna” is an operatic gem; and, in addition, stands as the only composition by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to boast some kind of posterity, however tepid. An opera intermezzo, it takes up ...

Diversity initiatives might be coming to an end in the United States’ Federal government and discrimination seems to be okay again, per the U.S. President’s latest decrees, but several opera companies ...

Sparks & Wiry Cries will present two events this February at the National Sawdust. On the 7th, the organization will showcase its ninth annual “songSLAM” which showcases the talents of 15 composers, ...