The Grand Théâtre de Genève has announced that it has closed its home at Place de Neuve. The company said that its home will be closed for 18 months of renovations, scheduled to last until the end of ...

On Dec. 29, 2025, Carmen de Lavallade, the first Creole/African descendant prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera, died at the age of 94, following a short illness at a hospital in Englewood, New ...

Plácido Domingo has been appointed Artistic Director of the Puccini Academy in Torre del Lago. The training project is promoted by the Puccini Festival Foundation with the aim of building young opera ...

Druid City Opera has announced the cast for its June 2026 production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Paul Houghtaling is set to take on the title role, with Indianapolis-based ...

Opera Mundus APS ETS has announced the first edition of the International Opera Singing Competition Opera Mundus – Vox Futuri, scheduled for Feb. 20–21, 2026, in Padua, Italy. The competition will ...

Premiere Opera Foundation announced the virtual prize winners and honorees from its latest competition cycle. Ukrainian soprano Vlada Koieva received the Virtual First Prize and a $2,000 award.

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City (YPC) will present its annual concert honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 17, 2026, at 4 p.m. The admission-free event is set to ...

Tulsa Opera partners in presenting the 70th annual Metropolitan Opera National Laffont Competition for the Tulsa District on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. The competition takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

As we wrap up 2025, here is a look back at some of the most-read articles of the year. We will focus mainly on longer-form pieces like reviews and interviews for this article.

Opera has no shortage of drama or tension. But pyrotechnics, explosions, intense fights and aerobatics are chiefly the domain ...

It’s that time of the year. The end of the year. As with every year, 2025 was full of a lot of opera revelations in productions, concerts and competitions. So in recognitions of those breakouts, ...

McFarland has released “Voices of Opera, 1950s–1970s,” a new 190-page volume by writer and tenor Tony Villecco. The book offers interviews with 22 opera singers whose careers began in the late 1940s ...