Opera Europa to deliver 2025 European Opera Director prize
Applications are now open for the prize which will take place at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
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Hermann Bäumer to become Music Director of the Prague State Opera
Zuzana Kadlčíková will also take over Chief Chorus Master of the Prague State Opera
Colin Matthews opera to open 2025 Aldeburgh Festival
The Suffolk-based festival sees a new opera from Matthews and tenor Allan Clayton as a featured artist
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Netia Jones appointed as Associate Director of the Royal Opera
Jones will take up the position from 3 December
English National Opera announces Manchester plans
A new youth opera company is announced among plans for the company's new base
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Strauss: Salome at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen | Live Review
Mondtag’s picture-book story-telling indulges fully in the implications, but toys with the funny side in a rather coy way that never really catches fire
Verdi: Aida at the Metropolitan Opera | Live Review
Martin Mayer’s shiny, new production, it turns out, is almost every bit as grand and conventional as was Sonja Frisell’s in 1988
Opinion
A financial cliff-edge: saving Streetwise Opera
A opera company working in frontline homelessness settings, Martin Constantine and Rachael Williams from Streetwise Opera ask how we can move beyond short-term emergency measures for funding social...
'The view that the Arts Council should just shut up and give us lots more money is not realistic' – Michael Volpe on the ecology of opera
Michael Volpe introduces what it would look like to confronting the opera industry's issues head-on, employing artists on annual contracts and reframing the powers of the entire system
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