Features
June 2023
Sound Play
Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee sings Wagner’s Dutchman this season in Santa Fe.
Extraordinary Journey
Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha will receive new stagings this summer in Saint Louis and Toronto.
Rediscovered Country
The Bard Music Festival visits the world of Vaughan Williams this summer.
Spotlights
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Singing to Win
Singing to Win
An insider offers his perspective on what it is like to sing in a vocal competition.
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96 Hours for Change
96 Hours for Change
Atlanta Opera’s unique competition showcase for new operas supports underrepresented voices.
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Sight Lines | Lise Davidsen
Sight Lines | Lise Davidsen
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who is currently singing the Marschallin in the Met's Rosenkavalier revival, shares how she's prepared herself psychologically for the repertory's biggest roles.
May 2023
Spotlights
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Citizen Director
Citizen Director
Stage director Shawna Lucey is the new general director at Opera San José.
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Rarely Trusted
Rarely Trusted
The women in Don Giovanni inspire complex moral questioning. Is Donna Elvira the most complicated?
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Lift Every Voice
Lift Every Voice
The Denyce Graves Foundation seeks to create new opportunities for artists of color.
April 2023
The 2023 OPERA NEWS Awards
This year’s OPERA NEWS Awards will honor three incomparable singers with a black-tie gala on Sunday, April 16, at the Plaza Hotel in New York. Join us as we celebrate the artistic achievements of Erin Morley, Lise Davidsen and George Shirley.
The 2023 OPERA NEWS Awards: Erin Morley
The lyric coloratura virtuoso has the gift of making the most complex and challenging music sound like her own natural form of expression.
The 2023 OPERA NEWS Awards: Lise Davidsen
The soprano phenom thrills in dramatic German rep, sung in big rooms, soaring over a full orchestra.
The 2023 OPERA NEWS Awards: George Shirley
The iconic American tenor believes that teaching voice is also teaching souls.
Silent Partners
The Metropolitan Opera’s Staff Performers are some of the company’s busiest artists.
Spotlights
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Intimate Expression
Intimate Expression
A double bill of operas by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran reaches LA Opera this month.
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Sight Lines | Missy Mazzoli
Sight Lines | Missy Mazzoli
The composer speaks about how she learned to write for the voice, her efforts to foster greater inclusion among future composers and her chamber opera, Proving Up, which receives performances at Juilliard in February.
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Best of the Best: Eugene Onegin
Best of the Best: Eugene Onegin
Our favorite selections from Tchaikovsky's great romance, sung by an all-star cast, from Ivan Kozlovsky, Leonid Sobinov, Jussi Björling and Galina Vishnevskaya to Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Peter Mattei and Renée Fleming.
March 2023
Star Status
Ryan Speedo Green sings Emile Griffith in the Met premiere of Champion this month.
Close Encounters of 3 Kinds
This month, Lyric Opera of Chicago unveils Proximity, a singular triple bill.
Spotlights
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Interrupted Melody
Interrupted Melody
Star tenors have shone in the Italian Singer's Aria in Der Rosenkavalier.
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Best of the Best: Il Trovatore
Best of the Best: Il Trovatore
Twenty-five of our favorite cuts from Il Trovatore, with performances by Leontyne Price, Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Sherrill Milnes, Jussi Björling—and Glenn Miller!
February 2023
Graceful Strength
Soprano Janai Brugger stars as Susanna in this month’s new Nozze at LA Opera.
Truth & Power
In the 1950s, baritone William Warfield created a career against impossible odds.
Special Blend
The Factotum, a new work inspired by Il Barbiere di Siviglia, bows this month at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Spotlights
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An Informed Narrative
An Informed Narrative
Seattle Opera presents the world premiere of A Thousand Splendid Suns.
