JOYCE DIDONATO OPERA COVERAGE

Crested Butte Music Festival's Growing Opera Program Features Marcello Giordani, Joyce DiDonato and More, 7/25-29

Now in its 17th year, Crested Butte Music Festival (CBMF) has gone from being a small fish in the big opera sea to being a well-respected program that is landing top-notch talent. So much so that th... (more...)

Regional Opera Company of the Week: Dallas Opera

More than half a century of artistic excellence and community engagement has earned The Dallas Opera a major role in shaping the national/international cultural reputation of Dallas. TDO has also made... (more...)

Tenor Bryan Hymel Receives Metropolitan Opera's 2013 Beverly Sills Artist Award

Tenor Bryan Hymel has been named the recipient of the eighth annual Beverly Sills Artist Award for young singers at the Metropolitan Opera. (more...)

New York City Opera Announces 2013-14 Season

New York City Opera Announces 2013-14 Season. (more...)

New York City Opera Returns to New York City Center with Two New Productions

This April, the company dubbed "the People's Opera" will return to the venue known as "the People's Theater" for the first time since 1965, when New York City Opera returns to New York City Center, it... (more...)

Metropolitan Opera 2013/2014 Season to Feature FALSTAFF, DIE FLEDERMAUS, PRINCE IGOR and More

The Metropolitan Opera's 2013-14 season will feature many of the world's greatest singers, conductors, and theater artists in 26 operas, including six new productions, of a varied repertory that range... (more...)

The Met: Live in HD's 2013-14 Season to Feature 10 Live Transmissions

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters, will feature 10 productions in the 2013-14 season, offering a significant portion of the Met... (more...)

The Met's 2013-14 Season to Feature 26 Operas, With 6 New Productions, Including a U.S. Premiere

The Metropolitan Opera's 2013-14 season will feature many of the world's greatest singers, conductors, and theater artists in 26 operas, including six new productions, of a varied repertory that range... (more...)

Wexford Festival Opera Nominated for Major International Opera Award

Wexford Festival Opera, long considered one of the finest opera festivals in the world, has been nominated in the Festival Opera category in the inaugural International Opera Awards, announced recentl... (more...)

New York City Opera Opens Spring 2013 Season with POWDER HER FACE, Now thru 2/23

New York City Opera opens its spring 2013 season with a new production of Powder Her Face (1995), composed by Thomas Ades (b.1971) to a libretto by Philip Hensher (b. 1965). (more...)

PARSIFAL, OTELLO, THE SOUND OF MUSIC and More Highlight Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2013-14 Season

Lyric Opera of Chicago and its general director, Anthony Freud, announced the lineup for Lyric's 2013-14 season today. Joseph Calleja, Joyce DiDonato, Nathan Gunn, Thomas Hampson, Ana Maria Martinez, ... (more...)

Warner Theatre Screens The Met: Live in HD's MARIA STUARDA Today

The Met: Live in HD continues today, January 19 at 1pm with Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the Warner Theatre in Torrington. (more...)

Warner Theatre to Screen The Met: Live in HD's MARIA STUARDA, 1/19

The Met: Live in HD continues on Saturday, January 19 at 1pm with Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the Warner Theatre in Torrington. (more...)

BWW Reviews: Cheers for DiDonato, Van den Heever and the Metropolitan Opera's MARIA STUARDA

There's usually not much in the way of fireworks in New York between New Year's and July 4th, but there certainly is no shortage of pyrotechnics in the Met's new Maria Stuarda, which is having its lon... (more...)

New York City Opera to Open Spring 2013 Season with POWDER HER FACE, 2/15-23

New York City Opera opens its spring 2013 season with a new production of Powder Her Face (1995), composed by Thomas Adès (b.1971) to a libretto by Philip Hensher (b. 1965). (more...)

Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change Advisory for the January 4 Performance of MARIA STUARDA

Salvatore Cordella will make his Met debut as Leicester in this evening's performance of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, replacing Matthew Polenzani, who is ill. (more...)

STAGE TUBE: First Look at Joyce DiDonato and More in MARIA STUARDA

The Metropolitan Opera presents MARIA STUARDA, now running through January 26, 2013. Approximate running time 2 hrs. 46 min. Mary Stuart (Joyce DiDonato) faces off with Elizabeth I (Elza van den Hee... (more...)

MARIA STUARDA Makes Met Premiere on New Year's Eve Starring Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato stars in the Met premiere of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, in a new production by Scottish director David McVicar, opening with a gala performance tonight, New Year's Eve. (more...)

MARIA STUARDA Makes Met Premiere on New Year's Eve Starring Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato stars in the Met premiere of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, in a new production by Scottish director David McVicar, opening with a gala performance on New Year's Eve. (more...)

New York City Opera Appoints Myra Huang Head of Music Staff

New York City Opera has announced the appointment of Myra Huang, whom Opera News has praised as 'among the top accompanists of her generation' and 'a colouristic tour de force,' as Head of Music Staff... (more...)

Ailyn Perez and More Set for Richard Tucker Music Foundation 37th Annual Gala at Avery Fisher Hall Tonight

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation holds its 37th annual gala, one of the most highly anticipated events of the opera season, tonight, November 11 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center. S... (more...)

Ailyn Perez and More Set for Richard Tucker Music Foundation 37th Annual Gala at Avery Fisher Hall, 11/11

The Richard Tucker Music Foundation holds its 37th annual gala, one of the most highly anticipated events of the opera season, on Sunday, November 11 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center.... (more...)

BWW Reviews: San Francisco Opera's New CAPULETS AND THE MONTAGUES is Breathtaking

Vincenzo Bellini's opera based on "Romeo and Juliet" does not follow the traditional Shakespeare plot, so it seems appropriate that the San Francisco Opera production, too, should veer away from tradi... (more...)

Summer HD Festival Returns With Free Screenings of the Met’s Live in HD Productions

The Met's popular Summer HD Festival returns for its fourth year on August 25, with ten free outdoor screenings of acclaimed performances from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series. The festival, ... (more...)

2012 Opera News Awards Honorees Announced

The editors of Opera News have announced the honorees for the 2012 Opera News Awards, paying tribute to five superb artists who have made an invaluable contribution to the art form: sopranos Mirella F... (more...)