Grammy and Emmy Award-winning baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. met with OperaWire to discuss his exciting 2025-26 season.

Operawire met up with one of its stars, the young Russian soprano Anastasiya Taratorkina, who was performing the role of ...

Naxos released a CD entitled “Tre Liriche,” featuring songs by Ottorino Respighi performed by the Italian contralto ...

The Richard Tucker Foundation has announced the career and study grants for 2025. The foundation said that mezzo-sopranos Meridian Prall and Nikola Printz, and baritone Ricardo José Rivera have been ...

Last week, President Donald J. Trump threatened to shut down the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for good by gutting its funding under the new budget proposal. In response, and not for the first ...

City Lyric Opera is set to present “Black Water” by Jeremy Beck and “Savior” by Amy Beth Kirsten. The double bill of chamber operas interrogates female agency across time and will run between May 15 ...

Sonja Kostich will step down as President and Executive Director of Baryshnikov Arts on July 31, 2025. She will remain in her position until then. Kostich will now head to the Houston Ballet to take ...

Rai Radio 3 is set to broadcast Verdi’s “Giovanna d’Arco” on May 10, 2025. The performance from the Teatro Regio di Parma stars Luciano Ganci as Carlo VII, Nino Machaidze as Giovanna, Ariunbaatar ...

On May 1, the Metropolitan Opera presented the second performance of its spring “Aida” run. This run is special as it marks the return of Elīna Garanča to the Met for the first time in five years. It ...

After months of lobbying, the Metropolitan Opera has received $5 million in one-time operating support from the State of New York. According to a press release by AGMA members who work at the ...

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra has announced its 2025 Resilience Tour set for this August. The tour will take the ensemble through Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lucerne, Vilnius, Jürmala, Bucharest, Amsterdam, ...

Opera Vlaanderen has announced its 2025-26 season. Here is a look at the operas and vocal performances. Alejo Pérez conducts Wagner’s “Parsifal” in a production by Susanne Kennedy. Benjamin Bruns, ...