Born in Russia, mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya is a graduate of the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow and a former member of the Youth Opera Program at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Winner of the Oscar Della Lirica in 2014, despite his young age, Vincenzo Costanzo had already had the opportunity to ...

The Ring Cycle is a massive undertaking, one that requires an opera company with a built-in infrastructure to do it.

McNamee choreographed the production when it was first premiered and has since worked with the company on productions of “La ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s first season without erstwhile General Director Anthony Freud began as his last concluded: with Verdi. Lyric opened 2024-25 and John Mangum’s tenure far more successfully than ...

“Singing Afternoon with John Rutter” is open to singers of all ages and abilities for a chance to participate in a large-scale singing afternoon. The repertoire will include music by Rutter and a ...

The Glasshouse (formerly Sage Gateshead) announced that it has received a £2m donation from The Foyle Foundation to support its work with young people. Already reaching over 50,000 young people each ...

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the death of Giacomo Puccini, the Wexford Festival Opera commissioned William Niall Morris to create a short work celebrating the composer’s life and music. The ...

We need Beethoven. Especially the 9 th Symphony with Schiller’s Ode to Joy. “Freude, schöner Götterfunken/Tochter aus Elysium,/Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische/, dein HeiligtumFreude menschen ...

Set just off the waterfront in Wexford town centre is The Grain Store, an old, restored warehouse, which last year hosted the festival’s first community opera. It is a project that enables the local ...

The Metropolitan Opera is set to present the annual holiday presentation of Julie Taymor’s English-language adaptation of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” The opera will be performed 17 times from Dec. 12 ...

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has joined Symphony.live, the global classical music streaming platform. The orchestra is the newest orchestra partner from the United States of America. In a statement, ...