The current Artistic Director, Flora McIntosh, took the reins in late 2022, steering the company through a successful bid to ...

OperaWire spoke with digital art and creative technologist Phil Hagen Jungschlaeger to learn more about what makes this ...

Italian baritone Angelo Romero has died at the age of 86 years old. Romero made his operatic debut in 1966 with Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo.” He eventually broke out in the role of Figaro in “The Barber of ...

Italian baritone Mattia Oliveri has become one of the most in-demand singers of his generation performing at major opera houses including the Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener ...

Brenden Gunnell is standing at the threshold of one of opera’s greatest challenges: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” After ...

Director Mijnssen took an imaginative and provocative stance with her resetting of the narrative in the year of its composition. One may ask, what relevance has “Simon Boccanegra” to the year 1881?

Riccardo Frizza, the Musical Director and Artistic Director of the Bergamo Donizetti Opera Festival and Honorary Conductor of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir, is widely regarded as ...

Richard Jones’ production of “La Bohème,” currently at Covent Garden for its eighth run, is a magnificent piece of art. It is still, however, tempered with a few anomalies including nonsensical stage ...

The presentation of the 2026 Handel Prize to René Jacobs was a profound validation of historical inquiry made flesh, rendered all the more poignant by the maestro’s heartening return to health.

The death of Vincenzo Bellini at just 33 years of age was unequivocally a tragic loss to the world of opera. The libretto for his final work…not so much. After a 35 year absence, Bellini’s “I Puritani ...

The company ABAO-Bilbao Opera closed its 2025-26 season with Giordano’s masterpiece “Andrea Chénier.” A luxury cast was led by opera star Michael Fabiano, alongside the rising Spanish soprano Saioa ...

On May 19, the Metropolitan Opera revived Puccini’s “Turandot” for the second time in the season. Known for its epic score and its famed melodies, the opera remains a favorite with Met audiences ...