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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Brooklyn Art Song Society has announced that its National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant has been terminated. The company sent out a letter signed by Artistic Director Michael Brofman stating, ...

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

Richard Loving, a white man, and his wife Mildred Loving, a woman of color were convicted of violating the Racial Integrity ...