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

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 ...

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 ...

One of the highlights, if not the highlight, of La Monnaie’s 2024–25 season must be its world premiere of Monteverdi’s new opera “I Grotteschi,” a mammoth work, lasting almost seven hours, not ...

Theater Bonn has announced a cast change for its production of “Tosca’ on May 11, 2025. The company said that tenor Jonathan Tetelman will take over the role of Mario Cavaradossi in “Tosca,” replacing ...

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, ...

Stephen Frears‘ 2016 film, “Florence Foster Jenkins,” was a instantaneous, worldwide success among critics and the public alike. It was one of the most popular biopic projects in recent Hollywood ...

The Fondazione Rete Lirica delle Marche has announced its 2025-26 season. Gioachino Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” will be performed in a production by Damiano Michieletto. The FORM – Orchestra ...

The Royal Opera House has announced a new cast change for its production of “Faust.” The company announced Erwin Schrott has pulled out of performances on May 23, 25, 28, and 30, 2025, and will be ...

Opera Verace Foundation has announced that mezzo-soprano Alma Neuhaus is the first-ever recipient of its annual Young Artist Career Development Grant. She takes home $10,000 in recognition of her ...

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) has announced its winter season of classical music. One of the performances will feature violinist Ray Chen alongside the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra while ...

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, ...