At the end of February, start of March this year, the Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe is presenting a Händel festival, ...

American soprano Jacquelyn Stucker will be performing in Philip Venables’ “We are the Lucky Ones” at Amsterdam’s Opera ...

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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.” ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

The Berlin State Opera has announced that it will cut a production from the 2025-26 season. In an interview, General Director Elisabeth Sobotka said there will be around 5 million euros for budget ...

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

Mälkki is a sought-after conductor who regularly conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic, where she is Chief Conductor Emeritus and was Chief Conductor from 2016 until 2023. She was Principal Guest ...

Soprano Jeanine de Bique is speaking out about criticism regarding her diction. In a Facebook statement, “Dear native speaker, For those of you who are not vocal diction coaches in opera or actually ...