La Monnaie to Kick Off Brussels Season With Yvonne Brussels' opera La Monnaie opens its season Sept. 9 with Philippe Boesmans' Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy, starring Mireille Delunsch, Paul Gay and Dorte Lyssewski. Full season details announced.
New York City Opera released full casting, creative team, and production details for the company’s 2010-2011 season. Lauren Flanigan, Stefania Dovhan, Mary Dunleavy, Cyndia Sieden and a host of Broadway favorites inhabit the roster.
Santa Fe Oper will stage five productions during its 2011 festival season: Faust, Boheme, Griselda, Last Savage and Wozzek. Frédéric Chaslin will assume the Chief Conductor role starting Oct. 1, 2010.
Gabriel Bacquier, the French baritone legend and one of the great Don Giovannis of recent memory, has unloaded both barrels at the new production (available for free online viewing) of Mozart's masterpiece which headlined the Aix-en-Provence festival this July.
A ballet in three parts, George Balanchine's Jewels was premiered by New York City Ballet in 1967 and was hailed as the first plotless full-length ballet. It will be seen next month at Houston Ballet. Laura Jacobs profiles the work.
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher's Metropolitan Opera staging of Offenbach's Les Contes d’Hoffmann will be showcased as part of the Met's "Live in HD" summer series in Lincoln Center Plaza.
George Steel, City Opera’s general manager and artistic director, and his right-hand man, Edward Yim, Director of Artistic Planning, talk with Cori Ellison, NYCO’s Dramaturg, about their plans for the 2010–2011 season.
The Verbier Festival is always a celebration of music but to make a splash with "big names" is not always easy to pull off. Last year's finale - Don Giovanni with Bryn Terfel, Pape and Quasthoff - is still being talked about. This year it was the conductor, Valery Gergiev, who took center stage.
The Met has unveiled its 2010-11 season, which will boast seven new productions, including two company premieres and the first two parts of a new Ring cycle.
Frank Cadenhead reports from the Verbier Festival which, this year, is proving to be a veritable who's who of major players and celebrities in the world of classical music.
New York City Center has announced the lineup for its seventh annual Fall for Dance festival, scheduled to run Sept. 28-Oct. 9. Highlights include Bill T. Jones, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, ABT and Corella Ballet Castilla y León.
Having attended the previous week's Norma, Alexandra Zalska headed back to Caramoor for the final Bel Canto offering of the summer: Donizetti's rarely-heard Maria di Rohan. She shares her experience and weighs in on the evening's performance.
The 44rd Mostly Mozart Festival kicks off July 27. As always, the Fest will range from the classical to the contemporary with a variety of orchestral concerts, chamber music and solo recitals and dance events.
MetTalks, a series of panel discussions with the casts and creative teams of the Met's new productions, will begin Sept. 22 with a conversation about Das Rheingold. Director Robert Lepage and star Bryn Terfel chat with Met General Manager Peter Gelb. 
