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Renée Fleming as Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s The Merry Widow Photo credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera The Met Live in HD presents two of The Metropolitan Opera’s most popular Live in HD productions – The Merry Widow on 22nd July and Aida on 5th August – in its 2026 Summer Encores series. Franz Lehár’s The Merry…

Elena Pankratova in the title role of Richard Strauss’ Elektra Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ Elektra – a dark tale of drama, bloodlust and murder. This production stars mezzo-soprano Elena Pankratova in the title role, Elektra’s sister Chrysothemis is sung by…

Isabel Leonard as Frida and Carlos Álvarez as Diego in Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the Met’s Live in HD season on May 30th – the last…

Photograph courtesy San Francisco Symphony It is with great sadness that I learned that Michael Tilson Thomas had passed away on April 22nd. Pianist, composer and conductor, he was one of the most creative and innovative musicians of his day. MTT – as he was affectionately known – was loved by, and appeared with, orchestras…

Model of scene from Le Villi © Stefano Poda Le Villi, a relatively little-known work by Giacomo Puccini, is to be performed in Nice in a new coproduction by Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra Toulon Provence Méditerranée and Opéra de Marseille. The opera stars Spanish/American soprano Vanessa Goikoetxea as Anna, the heroine…

Lisa Davidsen as Isolde and Michael Spyres as Tristan in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde © Karen Almond / Met Opera Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde in the Met’s Live in HD series in cinemas the world over on Saturday, March 21st at 12.00 pm. This production…

A new production of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is to be staged by Monte-Carlo Opera. This drama in 5 acts and 12 tableaux stars British baritone Huw Montague Rendall as Pelléas, French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre as Mélisande and Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley as Golaud, brother of Pelléas. Kazuki Yamada conducts, and the production is directed…

Kirill Karabits leads the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra and the Nice Opera Chorus, in a new co-production with Limoges Opera, of Mozart’s last work La Clémence de Titus (The Clemency of Tito). The opera stars Enea Scala in the title role, with Anaïs Constans as Vitellia and Marion Lebegue as Sesto. Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil…

Opera Narodowa, the Polish National Opera, stages La bohème, Giacomo Puccini’s passionate and heartbreaking portrayal of love, friendship and loss in the Bohemian quarter of Paris. The four-act opera stars Aleksandra Kurzak as Mimi and Piotr Buszewski as Rodolfo, the two lovers at the heart of this story. Aleksandra Orłowska is Musetta, Szymon Mechliński is…

This Christmas, Monte-Carlo Ballet presents Ma Bayadère Choreographer-Director J C Maillot’s reinterpretation of Marius Petipa’s La Bayadère, one of the great ballets of the classical repertoire. Ever an enthusiast for narrative ballet, Maillot retains the score of Ludwig Minkus, but whereas Petipa placed his 1877 ballet in an oriental setting, repeated by Rudolf Nureyev in…