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Unveiling her final program for Opera Queensland, Lindy Hume reflects on the transformative power of the art form – and the problems that plague it. When I hand the Opera Queensland reins to Patrick Nolan in November, it will mark my last outing as an artistic...

The Opéra of Montréal will open its 2017-18 season with an all-time classic: Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, a drama in three acts revolving around a love triangle. A painter (Mario Cavaradossi) and a singing diva (Tosca) are in love, but Scarpia, the chief of Roma’s Police...

Soprano who retired from operatic roles in 2009 says her voice ‘is in the past’ and reveals final concert was a year ago Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has announced her retirement from public performance after a career that has spanned almost five decades. The world-renowned...

The meek heroine of Jane Austen’s third novel reveals little of herself. It was in those absences that Jonathan Dove found inspiration for his chamber opera When I first read Mansfield Park, I heard music. That doesn’t always happen when I read, and it certainly...

San Diego, CA – Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley will replace tenor René Barbera for San Diego Opera’s One Amazing Night concert on May 5, 2018 at the Balboa Theatre. Greer will join soprano Lise Lindstrom for an evening of operatic favorites with the San Diego Symphony....

He put Rhinemaidens in fat suits, breathed life into Turnage’s Anna Nicole – now he is directing Covent Garden’s first new production of La Bohème for four decades. Richard Jones gives a rare interview Pink floorboards, yellow chairs, green cupboards and five...

Toronto, September 5, 2017 – Renowned conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the recipient of the 2017 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance. He will receive the award on Thursday, September 7 at 7:30 p.m., as he conducts the Orchestre Métropolitain’s...

‘We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child’, begins the lyrical prose-poem by James Agee from which Barber drew his text, and which the composer said, ‘reminded me so...

RETROSPECTIVE: of Opera Saratoga’s 2017 Summer Mainstage Season (July 1 through 16) – Verdi’s Falstaff; Grétry’s and Marmontel’s Zémire et Azor; Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. The end-days of summer are high horse-racing season in Saratoga, with turfites and...

Robin Ticciati conducted the Glyndebourne Chorus and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, with Richard Croft as Tito, Alice Coote as Vitellia, Anna Stéphany as Sesto, Joelle Harvey as Servilia, Michèle Losier as Annio and Clive Bayley as Publio. Iain Rutherford’s...

REVIEW: Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos in a new production at the Berkshire Opera Festival. It’s a backstage story as only Richard Strauss and his invaluable and (more or less) constant collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal could tell it. The Berkshire Opera...

BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny presents a concert in two parts on 17 September at 6pm at Cadogan Hall. The first half will include solo songs by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss and Quilter, followed by the Super Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, accompanying Ailish...