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Lang will step down from the role at the end of this year, following four years in the position.

The Edinburgh-based opera company is looking for new members to take part in its production of Bizet’s Carmen next summer.

The Suffolk-based company’s former stage and production manager has taken up the role, as current director Jenni Wake-Walker retires.

Current board member Mary Miller has taken up the role as previous incumbent Penny Jonas steps down.

The national opera company will host six one-act productions at venues in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry.

The north London-based opera company will present a new version of Humperdinck’s fairytale opera this month.

The Sussex-based opera house has announced who will take part in this year’s scheme for young orchestral instrumentalists.

Wales’s national opera company has announced that the Welsh tenor will represent its Cradle choirs for people living with dementia.

Acclaimed opera company Gothic Opera is set to stage a new version of this long-forgotten opera by Robert Planquette.

Former finance leader Andrew Mosely has joined the board of the Gloucestershire-based opera company.

The esteemed vocal coach will join British singers Bonaventura Bottone and mezzo-soprano Jean Rigby to adjudicate the competition.

The London-based conservatoire will welcome world-famous artists as part of its forthcoming season.

The touring company is set to host new English-language versions The Coronation of Poppea and Cinderella.

The Leeds-based company’s forthcoming programme includes a new work by Sir David Pountney based on the music of Henry Purcell.

London-based English National Opera’s new programme comprises a UK premiere, a new production and seven revivals of old favourites.

The Covent Garden-based opera house is set to host eight new productions across its two stages – including both a world premiere and a UK premiere.

The opera company’s line-up includes a national premiere, three new productions of old favourites from Britten, Mozart and Puccini, plus a series of outreach projects.

The Oxfordshire-based opera company will perform Haydn’s comic opera as part of the company’s 30th anniversary celebrations.

In celebration of 100 years since the birth of the singing sensation, the specialist music label will release a deluxe box set of her recordings in September.

Northern Ireland Opera will bring Puccini’s great tragedy Tosca to the Grand Opera House in Belfast in September

The two organisations have announced the four singers who will be taking part in their opera mentoring programme for artists of African and Asian heritage.

The world-renowned biennial singing competition to find the best classical singers in the world returns to Cardiff in June – this time with a live audience.

This seventh edition of the annual music festival is themed around opera and music from Latin America.

The series of free lunchtime concerts held on the steps of the west London-based opera company’s theatre begins this month.

Cardiff-based conservatoire Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama will present Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel as well as fringe events for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.

The annual event also includes a packed programme of classical, jazz and books over 17 days in July.

The Oxfordshire-based opera company is set to stage the UK premiere of Salieri’s comic opera at venues in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and London.

The annual opera event celebrating new works alongside radical interpretations of classic operas returns to its east London home in July.

The conductor stands down as the opera festival’s artistic director after 10 years in the role.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed that Canning will replace outgoing general director Richard Mantle in December.

The Leicestershire-based opera house is inviting audiences to ‘meet the artists’ with a concert by three young musicians in June.

Two composers have joined the opera house’s development scheme for people from backgrounds underrepresented in the opera world for this year’s programme.

Composer Conor Mitchell new production, which fuses opera with drag, cabaret and political satire, will receive its London premiere in May.

The Leeds-based company is set to bring the production of Bizet’s tale of love, friendship and betrayal to Leeds Grand Theatre before touring to concert halls across the north of England.

The north London-based opera company will present a new version of Handel’s masterpiece of political intrigue at Jacksons Lane Theatre in May.

London’s Royal Opera House has revealed details of its forthcoming summer season, including revivals of some of its most spectacular productions and a UK premiere.

The Leeds-based company and partners will present a powerful reimagining of Mozart’s iconic piece at Leeds Grand Theatre.

English National Opera is set to create a unique show for EuroFestival, a two-week-long celebration of music taking place in Liverpool in the run-up to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

The author, playwright and theatre producer will take up the new position in May, the Leeds-based opera company has revealed.

This year’s line-up includes two new operas, exhibitions, film showings, concerts, a celebration of the composer Ligeti and much more.

The north-west London-based opera company will stage an English-language version of Mozart’s much-loved comedy in May.

The Oxfordshire-based company’s summer season comprises eight productions, including three new headline stagings of well-known operas.

English National Opera has announced the appointment of the former intellectual property lawyer to its board of trustees.

The Leicestershire-based company will celebrate its 10th birthday with two new productions, plus a special gala evening.

The multi-award-winning Welsh bass-baritone and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama have set up the new scholarship fund to support young artists training at the college.

Six lead artists will join the Leeds-based company’s residency for music-makers of colour this year.

The Cumbria-based company’s mini-operas for young audiences will return to Scotland, as well as head to Lithuania and Germany.

The Southampton-based company has announced dates and venues for its forthcoming tour of Wagner’s epic tragedy.

The west London-based company has announced details of the 10 emerging singers and creative artists who will join the company’s Young Artists Scheme.

Wales’s national opera company is set to roll out its Long Covid rehabilitation scheme to six new health boards.

The company’s exciting new staging of Brecht’s highly political cantata will take place in a former jewellery workshop in March.

A new English-language version of Wagner’s opera will premiere in Southampton before heading on tour around the UK.

The contemporary theatre group is set to tour this experimental opera based on the life of Mary Frances Heaton across Yorkshire.

The Sussex-based opera house has announced the names of the three singers who will be joining its training programme for early career artists.

The youth opera company will perform a new adaptation of John Gay’s political satire at the Britten Studio in Suffolk.

The Oxfordshire-based festival has announced vacancies for one or more appointees to its board.

The new one-act opera aimed at younger audiences will receive its first performance at the Belfast Children’s Festival.

The Coventry-based student opera company will stage a new English-language version of Massenet’s popular opéra comique in March.

The Warwickshire-based company is set to stage a one-off performance of Mozart’s ever-popular comedy in Rugby this coming March.

The company’s Encore Plus Partners benefit from increased access to Opera North’s work, including opera, live performance and workshops both on and off the stage.

The Cumbria-based opera company has announced three new appointments to its board of trustees.

The Lewes-based opera company is holding auditions for roles in its new production of Gounod’s devilish opera of love, betrayal and lost youth.

The London-based opera company has announced that it will receive investment for 2023-24.

The Cardiff-based conservatoire has revealed that soprano April Koyejo-Audiger is among six exceptional new board members.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced that Joséphine Korda has taken up its latest residency for female conductors.

The Sussex-based opera house and festival has announced that it will no longer be able to take its productions on the road due to Arts Council England cuts.

The touring company continues its run of popular Gilbert and Sullivan favourites, along with a new production and a Mozart comedy.

The company is inviting singers and actors to register their interest in volunteering for parts in a new version of The Decision by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler.

The Leeds-based company is set to tour revivals of two much-loved classics and a UK premiere of a 20th century favourite.

Wales’s national opera company has announced details of the concerts and community engagement activity that make up part of its 2023 season.

The London-based touring company has announced full date and cast details for the three main operas that comprise its 2023 season.

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama will stage a new English-language version of Poulenc’s historical opera set during the French revolution in March 2023.

Wales’s national opera company has announced full details of its 2023 season, including the world premiere of Welsh mining opera Blaze of Glory!

The Queen Sonja International Music Competition has announced it is to become the Queen Sonja Singing Competition, along with a new brand and logo.

The Gloucestershire-based opera festival will present Wagner’s full Ring Cycle in 2024, following performances of each of the individual operas over its past four seasons.

English Touring Opera has added two specially commissioned operas for younger viewers to its line-up for its spring 2023 season.

The west London-based company has announced cast and creatives, along with dates, for the four new productions and one world premiere that comprise its 2023 season.

Two Ukrainian opera companies come out on top as this year’s winners of the International Opera Awards are revealed at a star-studded ceremony.

The Cumbria-based opera company is set to stage three never-performed cantatas by Élisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre in 2023.

The Leeds-based company is set to take all kinds of music on tour around the north of England to celebrate Christmas.

The west London-based company’s festive concert returns this December, with the company reminding audiences to “save the date”.

The national development agency for culture has revealed the details of 990 organisations that will receive public investment in its next funding period.

Opera stars from around the world are set to perform at this year’s International Opera Awards ceremony on 28 November.

The Warwickshire-based company is inviting applications from singers for its world premiere of a 200-year-old opera that has never been staged.

The touring company will bring two G&S favourites, HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, to Suffolk next year.

New York’s Met Opera is set to live broadcast highlights from its 2022-23 season to cinemas across the UK.

For one night only, English National Opera is set to host a concert staging of Britten’s operatic celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II.

The fusion opera company is set to stage its innovative interactive opera Come Bargain with Uncanny Things in London this month.

Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša will take up the position in 2025, as current music director Antonio Pappano steps down at the end of 2024.

The Lewes-based company is set to stage a new version of Belle Lurette, a little-known comic opera that has rarely been performed.

The Ivors Academy has announced the nominees for this year’s composer awards, featuring more than 40 composers across a wide range of music.

The London-based touring company has announced details of the three productions that comprise its forthcoming spring season, starting in February 2023.

The Middlesex-based company is staging an imaginative production of Strauss’s much-loved musical comedy this month.

The first live awards since the pandemic will be held outside the UK for the first time in the event’s history.

The London-based English National Opera has announced five new singers will join the opera company as part of this season’s cohort of ENO Harewood Artists.

A concert of celebrated works for saxophone and the return of Handel’s Messiah by candlelight comprise this year’s festival from the Leicestershire-based opera house.

This new chamber opera exploring modern-day experiences of loneliness will receive its world premiere at the Sussex-based opera house this autumn.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced Professor Edward Venn of the School of Music, University of Leeds, as its new Academic in Residence.

Royal Opera House Stream features 45 works from the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, as well as special features such as behind-the-scenes films, talks and more.

The Gloucestershire-based festival will comprise a new production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung created especially for Longborough, as well as two Baroque masterpieces and a classical comedy.

The Hampstead, north London-based opera company has announced that it will mount a fully staged production of Janáček’s magical opera in November.

The Cardiff-based conservatoire has established a £150,000 fund to support young opera singers in the name of the acclaimed Welsh bass-baritone.

The acclaimed mezzo-soprano, currently artistic associate with the company, will step into her new role with immediate effect.

A new 10-minute opera for primary-school-aged children will be created in collaboration with a professional composer and librettist working with a school in Cumbria.

After almost three decades with the company, Richard Mantle OBE DL has revealed his intention to step down next year.

The west London-based opera house has announced details of the five productions that comprise its 2023 season, including a world premiere.

Tenth anniversary of the bursaries sees 19 recipients working in opera receive financial support from the Opera Awards Foundation.

The Sussex-based opera house’s new staging of Handel’s fantastical opera is now on streaming service Glyndebourne Encore.

The Leicestershire-based opera house has announced the details of two brand new productions and special events that will comprise its 2023 summer season.

English Touring Opera is set to take a new Handelfest out on the road this autumn in a celebration of this great opera composer’s life and works.

Four finalists will compete in the Young Artists’ Singing Competition next month, as part of the inaugural Opera Festival Scotland in Dundee, the country’s first opera festival.

English Touring Opera is set to take audiences on a journey to ancient Egypt and the roaring twenties with this new family opera.

The Sussex-based opera house’s acclaimed production of Puccini’s tragic masterpiece will lead this autumn’s Glyndebourne Tour.

The Sussex-based opera house’s development programme for composers from under-represented backgrounds is inviting applications.

The company’s co-founder and artistic director will leave in September after 12 years to go to English Touring Opera.

Wales’s national opera company has revealed more exciting programming for its forthcoming season.

Trafalgar Releasing is set to bring Glyndebourne’s innovative new production of Puccini’s timeless tragedy to cinemas across the UK.

Joe O’Neill is set to become managing director at the Leicestershire-based opera festival in September.

Opera on Location’s Verismo is an exciting new take on Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

The multi-award-winning opera singer is set to release her second album, the cross-cultural Kaleidoscope, on Warner Classics.

The Royal Opera House has released full casting details for Last Days – the highly anticipated new three-act opera based on Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film of the same name.

Glyndebourne’s landmark production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers will be available to view on the company’s online streaming platform from 1 August.

Scotland’s first ever opera festival will take place in Dundee this autumn, having been postponed due to coronavirus.

The touring company is set to perform a programme of new and revived productions at unusual venues across southern England this summer and autumn.

The Leeds-based opera company will be hosting an eclectic programme of concerts to take place in Huddersfield and Dewsbury.

The annual London-based opera festival celebrates new and unconventional takes on the artform.

Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House has revealed the British entrepreneur and philanthropist as its new head of trustees.

The Australian theatre director’s long-awaited production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites will make its delayed premiere at next year’s festival.

The London-based composer has gained permission from Hollywood giant Miramax to stage The Child in the Striped Pyjamas.

The Covent Garden-based opera house’s new season includes an incredible 11 new productions – two of which are UK premieres.

West London-based Opera Holland Park has commissioned a new opera from composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton.

The classical music festival from Northern Ireland Opera and BBC Radio 3 returns to the Northern Irish coastal village of Glenarm this August for the first time since 2019.

The Royal Opera House has announced the full details of this year’s Engender Festival, celebrating the work of women and non-binary people in opera.

The Leeds-based company has announced Leeds-born sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun as its new Artist in Residence.

A historically informed production of Handel’s historical opera will take place at the West London-based opera house this month

London’s Royal College of Music Opera Studio is set to stage a new production of Jonathan Dove’s comic opera Flight in June and July.

Martin Graham has announced that he is to step down from his position of chairman of the Cotswolds-based music festival.

The Leeds-based company is set to host eight productions, including a new co-production and two unique collaborations.

The Royal Opera House has revealed the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet productions that will comprise its cinema season for 2022-23

English National Opera has announced the details of the nine operas that make up its 2022-23 season, including seven new productions.

This month sees two performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin by Opera Holland Park’s Young Artists.

National company Northern Ireland Opera is putting on music events every Sunday until 3 July on Belfast’s iconic Maritime Mile.

London’s Royal Opera House has opened applications for nine apprenticeships across its technical and production departments.

The national opera company is set to bring a brand new version of Verdi’s immensely popular tragedy to the refurbished Grand Opera House in Belfast.

The young Brazilian singer is the latest artist to sign an exclusive contract with the Paris-based world-leading classical music recording company.

Now in its 15th year, the annual Grimeborn Festival will this year feature 14 operas, including four new works and 11 female directors.

Welsh National Opera has revealed details of the six operas and other musical events that make up its programme from autumn 2022 to summer 2023.

The Leicestershire-based opera house is set to host a Last Night of the Proms-style evening to celebrate the queen’s jubilee.

English Touring Opera is set to premiere new children’s opera The Firebird via its online streaming platform this month.

The acclaimed and often controversial British artist will present a series of new works inspired by the operas that make up this year’s festival.

The touring company will perform the UK premiere of Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers at the Whitechapel music hall this month.

The leader of the Orchestra of Opera North will step down from his post this summer, the Leeds-based company has announced

Currently the Sussex-based opera house’s director of audience development and media, Davidson-Houston will replace Sarah Hopwood as managing director in autumn.

English Touring Opera is set to present another Handelfest – a celebration of works by one of opera’s greatest composers, George Frederic Handel.

The London-based music training organisation is set to perform scenes from some of Mozart’s most celebrated operas.

Three new productions make up the innovative opera company’s summer season, with performances taking place in venues across England.

The college’s students, alumni and faculty are set to present a varied series of concerts, masterclasses, operas and more this year.

The Sussex-based opera house is set to take two operas and a concert out on the road this autumn.

Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House received three awards at a ceremony recognising the best in British stage and theatre.

English Touring Opera has announced that the chief executive and artistic director of OperaUpClose will take up her new position from July 2022.

The King’s Head Theatre’s co-artistic director is set to direct a contemporary reinterpretation of Puccini’s masterpiece at the pub theatre this April and May.

English National Opera is set to present Puccini’s La bohème for an evening of opera at the music festival taking place at south London’s Crystal Palace Park.

Hampstead Garden Opera’s spring production is a double-bill of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, at north London’s Cockpit theatre.

Chelsea Opera Group presents a new production of Giordano’s tale of love and tragedy set during the French Revolution.

The Royal Opera House is set to broadcast Verdi’s tragic masterpiece to cinemas in April.

Nevill Holt Opera has announced details of its Spring Weekend, taking place in April.

The Sussex-based opera house has announced details of a special fundraising event in support of the people of Ukraine.

The Warwickshire-based company is hoping to finance a world premiere of Marianna Bottini’s 1822 opera to be performed next year.

The Royal Opera House is set to add two more operas to its online streaming service ROH Stream this spring.

The Leeds-based company has announced the five artists who will take part in this year’s Resonance project for minority ethnic music-makers.

The world-renowned violinist, educator and arts and culture advocate becomes director designate of the annual arts and culture festival with immediate effect.

Welsh National Opera has announced the three operas, along with its engagement and outreach work and orchestral concert activity, that form its spring programme.

The Royal Opera House is hosting a programme of special events celebrating the roles of women in opera and ballet.

The Leicestershire-based company has lined up a roster of two of the world’s best-known operas along with a series of musical performances for its Summer Festival.

This new online opera for children up to 4 years old will be available to stream via English Touring Opera’s website.

The Royal Opera House’s new production of Verdi’s tragic masterpiece will be screened in 779 cinemas in 17 countries across the world in March.

The West London-based company is hosting a series of online and in-person panel events to complement the operas in its 2022 season.

The Oxfordshire-based event has announced details of its forthcoming season as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.

The London-based opera company is set to launch its new education programme for primary schools in the autumn, with booking open now.

The Lewes-based community company has announced dates for its summer production of Handel’s pastoral opera.

Scottish Opera’s much-loved Opera Highlights production is set to visit venues throughout February and March.

This ground-breaking chamber opera from Graeae Theatre Company explores the life of blind musician and composer Maria-Theresia von Paradis.

The London-based opera house will run a series of online events to recognise the work of its apprentices over the years.

The Oxfordshire-based company’s production of this Jane Austen-inspired opera will embark on an 11-date national tour this summer.

The Leeds-based company’s production of Handel’s opera will be available for viewers around the globe to watch online in partnership with streaming service OperaVision.

The Buckinghamshire-based festival has announced the details of the five productions that comprise its 2022 season – including a new ‘community opera’.

The Gloucestershire-based company has announced details of the four productions that comprise its summer festival.

The Warwickshire-based company’s programme includes two world premieres, as well as a highlight of German Romantic opera and a rarely performed gem.

‘Scotland’s first opera festival’ has announced the four finalists in its Young Artists Singing Competition.

The London-based touring company has revealed details of two new documentaries available to watch for free and information about a pair of forthcoming operas for youngsters.

ENO Board Secretary John Cooke has been recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours.

The London-based touring company has announced details of the two operas and oratorio that will comprise the company’s spring tour.

The Royal Opera House has announced details of two operas to be streamed via its online service this month.

Organised by Britten Pears Arts, the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival comprises a huge programme of opera, concerts, talks and lectures, exhibitions and more.

The fundraising evening of music, wine and food will take place in London in February.

The Oxfordshire-based company has announced that its main production for summer next year will be a rarely performed opera by Haydn.

The Oxfordshire-based music festival is inviting applications to its Young Artist Programme from singers and répétiteurs.

The youth organisation will be working with four performers to offer young singers professional support in their careers.

The Derbyshire-based music and culture festival has announced details of the five operas that feature in the summer 2022 programme.

The Leicestershire-based opera house has confirmed the two new productions for its 2022 season, along with a series of events and concerts.

The Oxfordshire-based company has announced the three winners of its Young Singers 2021 competition.

Pay the Piper, a brand new youth opera from an all-female composer team, will premiere at the Sussex-based opera house in February.

The west London-based opera house’s summer programme features three new productions, a UK premiere and the return of Opera in Song.

The prize winners of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards have been revealed in a special ceremony that took place on 14 November.

Sussex-based opera house Glyndebourne has launched Glyndebourne Encore, a new streaming service giving on-demand access to its filmed operas.

The English National Opera has teamed up with stars of TikTok to create the world’s first TikTopera, based on Netflix’s Tiger King documentary series.

The Cardiff-based conservatoire has revealed details of Opera 360, a unique online programme designed to develop better understanding of the opera industry.

The Covent Garden-based company has teamed up with innovative theatre company Little Bulb to produce Wolf Witch Giant Fairy, a new folk opera for children.

Aidan, a new production for younger viewers from English Touring Opera, is available to watch for free as part of ETO at Home.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced Kay Salomon for its Female Conductor Traineeship.

Sarah Hopwood is set to retire from her role as managing director at Sussex-based opera house Glyndebourne in autumn 2022.

The west London-based opera company is set to stream its new filmed production of William Walton’s comic opera The Bear, based on the Chekov play.

The Cardiff-based contemporary opera company will stage new opera Violet next year before touring the production to selected venues in the UK.

Ground-breaking new opera company Theatre of Sound is set to stage a radical retelling of Bartók’s one-act expressionist opera Bluebeard’s Castle.

The Leicestershire-based opera house is set to stage a series of seasonal classics this November as its Winter Festival returns to Nevill Holt Hall.

Leeds-based company Opera North has appointed David Collins to the new role of executive director.

OperaUpClose and Manchester Camerata are partnering on a new English-language production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman.

Sussex-based opera house Glyndebourne is set to work with Pegasus Opera Company on a mentoring programme for singers from diverse backgrounds.

England’s national opera company is set to stage a new version of Wagner’s masterpiece The Valkyrie at the Coliseum in London.

Northern Ireland Opera’s new film Old Friends and Other Days will be screened at Belfast’s Strand Arts Centre this November as part of the 2021 Belfast Film Festival

The innovative Cardiff-based music company has commissioned New Directions, three new short opera works that aim to redefine what we understand by opera.

The Sussex-based opera house has unveiled details of the Glyndebourne Festival 2022 programme.

Hampstead Garden Opera is set to present a new production of Mozart’s classic comedy The Marriage of Figaro at Jacksons Lane Theatre this November.

Samoan arts collective Gafa reveals London concert performances of all four operas in Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle.

London’s Royal Opera House has announced the six productions that will be broadcast to screens around the world in the house’s first cinema season for 16 months.

English Touring Opera has revealed details of Back Into the World, a new children’s opera from writing partnership Hanbury and Groves.

Specialist classical music label Signum Records has announced a new recording partnership with Ireland’s national opera company.

The Covent Garden-based opera house has revealed details of the six productions that will be available to stream on demand this autumn.

Wales’s national opera company has announced that it will return to in-person sessions for its community engagement programme in the coming months.

The Sussex-based opera house has launched the Glyndebourne Freelancer Fund to support freelance artists and performers working in the performing arts sector.

The company has announced the names of the performers who will be joining the production of Handel’s Amadigi, touring to venues up and down the country this autumn.

Wales’s national opera company has commissioned a series of short films for its new Rearrange project to locate opera in today’s world.

The Leeds-based company is set to host a series of events from local organisations and homegrown talent to take place in its newly refurbished Howard Assembly Room.

The English National Opera’s programme for those recovering from Covid-19, ENO Breathe, has been recognised by the American Academy of Teachers of Singing awards.

Opera Roulette is a jukebox of performances, allowing viewers to experience scenes from operas from all around the world.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed details of its forthcoming live season with five new productions.

The Covent Garden-based Royal Opera House has announced a return of its cinema programme after 16 months of closure.

The Lewes-based community opera company will bring a selection of opera music to this year’s Petworth Fringe festival.

Welsh National Opera will tour venues in England and Wales with productions of operatic favourites from Rossini, Puccini, Mozart and more for its 2021-22 season.

Covent Garden-based Royal Opera House is opening its doors for a showcase of art, opera and ballet as part of Open House London.

The 2021 Glyndebourne Tour will feature a new production of Beethoven’s only opera alongside revivals of favourites from Stravinsky and Donizetti.

Award-winning national opera company Northern Ireland Opera is set to present a new production of Puccini’s La bohème this September.

Leeds-based company Opera North has put out a call for applications to its Resonance residency programme for minority ethnic music creators based in the north of England.

Growth of the Silk, an original fable about a woman’s misguided desire for long, lustrous hair, will play at Upstairs at the Gatehouse in north London this month as part of the Camden Fringe.

The Covent Garden-based Royal Opera House’s first full season since 2019 includes new productions and revivals of old favourites such as La traviata and The Magic Flute as well as world premieres.

New performance collective Marginalia is set to bring an innovative production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to London venues this summer and autumn.

Taking place at Oxford’s Waterperry House, this year’s Waterperry Opera Festival features seven productions including well-known favourites Hansel and Gretel and The Elixir of Love.

Leeds-based opera company Opera North is set to bring live music back to Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls with a full programme for its Kirklees Concert Season 2021-22.

Award-winning touring opera company OperaUpClose has announced its residency at MAST Mayflower Studios in Southampton.

Sussex-based opera house Glyndebourne has announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Trustees, as well as launching its Creative Conspirators ‘think tank’.

The committee will aim to ensure that the opera company focuses on relevance, inclusivity and maintains high standards.

East London’s Arcola Theatre has announced that Grimeborn, its experimental opera festival, will be taking place in August and September.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed that the Howard Assembly Room will reopen in October following a major redevelopment project.

The Leeds-based company has put out a call for applications for its new training programme aimed at providing experience and education to women conductors.

Applications are now open for Bampton Classical Opera’s fifth biennial Young Singers’ Competition 2021.

Hampstead Garden Opera is set to bring A Wonderful Dream, a summer concert of opera favourites, to Highgate this month.

The Oxfordshire-based company is set to tour a production of Gluck’s rarely performed and underappreciated opera Paris and Helen.

The innovative opera company has revealed that Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 will take place in July and August.

The west London-based company has announced Opera in Song, a series of recitals that aims to close the gap between opera and song.

The Royal Opera House’s special event to celebrate the work of women and gender minorities in opera is back with a packed programme of events and an unmissable line-up of creators.

London’s Royal Opera House has added eight new apprenticeships as it reopens its doors for the first full season in eighteen months.

The company is set to bring a new production of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s expressionist opera to London this month.

English National Opera is set to return to live performance at its London home with a season of seven operas for 2021-22.

The London-based opera company will host The Operas of Mozart, a series of online talks by Artistic Director Ian Page.

Welsh National Opera will return to live performance this summer with a series of outdoor shows of Will Todd’s family opera Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

English Touring Opera will return to live performance with a national tour of Handel’s Amadigi this autumn.

Organisers of Opera Festival Scotland have decided to reschedule the event to next year, due to continued uncertainty surrounding indoor events.

English Touring Opera has created Sing with ETO, a series of free music lessons for singers, via its ETO at Home online platform.

Cheltenham Music Festival is set to return with 10 days of events, including several world premieres, taking place in July.

You can see three of Opera Holland Park’s 2021 Young Artists in a masterclass with lyric soprano Amanda Roocroft.

The English-Italian conductor and pianist will remain in the position until the 2023-24 season, the Royal Opera House has confirmed.

This year’s winners of the International Opera Awards were revealed in a special online event watched around the world.

Leeds-based company Opera North is inviting emerging composers to create 60-second pieces for new music-writing competition, Minute Masterpieces.

North London-based opera company Hampstead Garden Opera is set to stage a specially commissioned version of Cavalli’s L’Egisto at the Cockpit Theatre.

Nevill Holt Opera has revealed a five-day festival to mark the return of live music to its Market Harborough theatre this summer.

Nevill Holt Opera has revealed the names of the first five performers who will take part in the company’s newly launched NHO Foundation Artists programme.

English Touring Opera has announced a full programme of online broadcasts that will be available on demand, including four new productions, as part of its ETO at Home programme.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed a comprehensive range of musical activities for young singers and instrumentalists for the summer months.

Dido’s Ghost by Errollyn Wallen will receive its world premiere at the London-based venue in June.

The Sussex-based opera house will host a series of free opera broadcasts over the summer.

The iconic London-based venue has revealed more productions for the spring-summer programme, its first full season since 2019.

The West London-based opera house has revealed the names of this year’s participants in its Young Artists Scheme for emerging directors, conductors and singers.

London-born conductor Gerry Cornelius will take up the post with immediate effect.

Leeds-based touring company Opera North has revealed its ‘journey out of lockdown’ with live performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio and more.

London’s Royal Opera House has announced highlights of its forthcoming 2021-22 season, including three world premieres and Jonas Kaufmann in a special double bill.

This series of eight free digital operatic experiences brings together some of the most innovative contemporary artists working in opera and the performing arts today.

The Welsh National Opera marks 75 years since its first-ever performance this month with a new poem from the National Poet of Wales.

The training company is set to host a guest season at the west London-based opera house this summer.

English National Opera is set to perform Puccini’s much-loved opera at South Facing Festival in south London.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced a series of new broadcast and digital projects for this spring.

The prestigious ceremony will take place in May as an online event, with last year’s winners to finally be revealed.

The Covent Garden-based venue will open its doors to audiences again in May, with a packed programme of live and online events.

Leicestershire-based company Nevill Holt Opera has revealed that its annual opera event will take place this year, with some changes to ensure compliance with any remaining coronavirus restrictions.

The Sussex-based opera house has announced that it is committed to staging its 2021 festival this summer.

June sees the return of live opera to the west London-based company’s Kensington home.

Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House has revealed a programme of activity to mark this year’s International Women’s Day.

The Wiltshire-based production company will launch its summer season with a series of open-air events in the stunning grounds of Belcombe Court.

The Paradis Files from London-based theatre company Graeae recounts the untold story of Maria Theresia von Paradis.

Opera Festival Scotland launches this year to encourage and inspire more people to get involved with opera.

The Covent Garden-based opera house will host Tony and the Young Artists as part of its ongoing #OurHouseToYourHouse programme.

The Leeds-based company has revealed a suite of web-based projects aimed at improving access to music and performance for both children and adults.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced the names of the four lead artists who will take part in this year’s programme for minority ethnic music-makers.

Sussex-based opera house Glyndebourne is inviting applications for its development scheme for young professional instrumentalists.

Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House is continuing its #OurHouseToYourHouse programme with two more Friday Premieres and streamed productions.

The Leicestershire-based opera house and company is looking at two different scenarios in order to host its usual summer festival.

England’s national opera company is set to receive multi-million-pound repayable financial support from the government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

The chamber opera Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart is set to be released on the Naxos record label.

Wales’s national opera company has revealed that it is to release a series of films exploring the role of the arts in a time of crisis.

The Leeds-based opera company has received a cash award from Arts Council England and DCMS as part of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund.

The West Midlands-based company is set to bring a brand new version of the first opera in Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle to its home city in summer 2021.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed a programme of online productions taking place into January.

The series of opera recitals has returned in digital form to present a season of eight themed programmes, billed as Rosenblatt Recitals at Home.

Sammy and the Beanstalk, an online play-with-songs, is a fun, spooky and contemporary Christmas story about eight-year-old Sammy and her dad.

Current, Rising, a 15-minute hyper-reality opera experience, will take place in the Covent Garden-based opera house’s Lynbury Theatre next year.

Scotland’s national opera company will host a series of digital and live performances for December and January and into summer 2021.

The London-based venue will host a series of events to be streamed and broadcast in time for Christmas.

The touring opera company has announced its first-ever Wagner opera, an English-language version of The Flying Dutchman.

The Covent Garden-based opera house will host a series of performances of opera highlights for live audiences this December.

Singers from the London-based conservatoire perform scenes from well-known operas to be broadcast via YouTube.

The Leeds-based opera company has revealed dates for livestreams of two major productions which have been disrupted by the second lockdown in England.

Soprano Claire Booth stars in a new filmed version of Poulenc’s lyrical tragedy recorded by Wales’s national opera company.

The Southbank-based orchestra has created a new production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges in partnership with VOPERA: The Virtual Opera Project.

The Leeds-based opera company has put together a special festive edition of its popular digital choir which took place over the summer.

Eight Songs From Isolation, the first opera written and recorded for a socially distanced world, can be watched via Apple Music.

The English National Opera will welcome live audiences back with special performances of Mozart’s final masterpiece.

The Leeds-based opera company has announced the addition of more events to its Switch ON programme, including works by Handel and Beethoven.

Young singers from the Welsh National Opera joined forces for a unique online performance of a song taken from the Emily Dickinson poem ‘If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking’.

The Covent Garden-based venue has announced a series of live events as it welcomes audiences through its doors for the first time since March.

The Sussex-based opera house is set to welcome back live performance in a run of socially distanced indoor concerts.

The London-based music training college has revealed the singers and répétiteurs who will be joining the studio this autumn.

The Leeds-based opera company is set to team up with the playhouse on a project to bring live audiences back into the theatre, in a safe, secure environment, for the first time since lockdown.

The Leeds-based opera company has put out a call for applications to its workshops for Black, Asian and minority ethnic music-makers.

The Covent Garden-based opera house will continue its virtual #OurHouseToYourHouse programme throughout September, October and November.

The Leeds-based company will run a programme of new outdoor events and digital projects taking place across the north of England this autumn and winter.

Arts company Tête à Tête is hosting its annual The Opera Festival during September and October, with a mix of socially distanced performances and online events.

The new programme forms part of the charitable training organisation’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Leeds-based opera company’s new series of sound walks commissioned in response to the Covid-19 crisis is now available to download.

The London-based opera house will be broadcasting live performances from its main stage that will be available to watch all over the world.

The English National Opera has partnered with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to develop ENO Breathe, a programme to help recovery from coronavirus.

The Sussex-based opera company will continue to host events in Glyndebourne House’s extensive gardens into September.

The contemporary opera company has launched a new programme of work aimed at improving diversity and engaging with under-represented groups in opera.

The Leicestershire-based opera company has announced that a series of concerts will take place in the grounds of the Nevill Holt Estate.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra has announced the appointment of Cristina Rocca as its new artistic director.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the latest guidance on live performances, the Leeds-based company will reschedule all mainstage productions in its autumn/winter season.

Hampstead Garden Opera will stage an open-air, socially distanced production of Gustav Holst’s Sāvitri in the grounds of Lauderdale House, Highgate.

French soprano Clara Barbier Serrano will become the first recipient of the RCM’s Andrea Bocelli Foundation-Community Jameel Scholarship.

Amazon is a brand new piece available online as part of Homemakers, a series inviting artists to create works at home for an audience also at home.

The Leeds-based company will introduce From Couch to Chorus, a virtual initiative to give everyone a chance to enjoy being part of an operatic chorus, wherever they live in the country and whatever their previous experience might be.

The Sussex-based opera house will host a limited season of events in the extensive grounds.

The new series from Wale’s national opera company will provide an insight into the world of opera for both newcomers and long-term opera fans.

The unique ballet-opera company has launched Connecting Stars, a new programme aimed at bringing together isolated care home residents and struggling artists.

Opera North has announced the six lead artists for the ‘Lockdown Edition’ of its programme for UK-based BAME music-makers.

Wales’s national opera company will premiere a new opera giving a voice to people who have undertaken incredible journeys, leaving their homes in search of a better life.

As part of their work to keep the music playing, OperaUpClose, Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera and the BBC have introduced new projects to stream mini-concerts online.

The Sussex-based opera house will be streaming Barber’s Vanessa and Handel’s Rinaldo as part of its virtual festival, bringing opera to audiences during lockdown.

The Leeds-based opera company is set to produce a series of sound journeys for lockdown commissioned by BBC Arts and Arts Council England.

The Welsh National Opera has announced its plans for when the company turns 75 in 2021, with Strauss and Gounod on the bill and a host of exciting new projects.

The Leeds-based company has announced a packed and varied programme of opera and events set to tour venues across northern England.

The national opera company’s line-up includes two brand new works, plus new productions and revivals of old favourites.

The Sussex-based opera house and company has taken the decision to fully close this year’s festival in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In response to the coronavirus crisis, the English National Opera is launching a new initiative to allow audiences to watch live performances from their cars.

Ella Marchment’s innovative new initiative to bring together performers in these times of social distancing will share its first micro-operita on YouTube.

Opera North’s scheme for BAME music-makers has been adapted for these days of social distancing, the Leeds-based company has announced.

The Leeds-based company has cancelled all performances to the end of April and put off its co-production with Leeds Playhouse.

New initiative #OperaHarmony has been set up by stage director Ella Marchment to create mini-operas to be shared online while we’re all in lockdown.

Opera North’s residency scheme to support BAME music-makers is back for 2020, the Leeds-based company has announced.

After a break of 11 years, the prestigious competition for young British conductors will be coming back to Leeds Town Hall this September – coronavirus permitting.

The Leicestershire-based opera house has announced that the 2020 festival won’t go ahead as planned due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The names of more than 100 nominations across 18 categories have been announced in this year’s International Opera Awards.

Rising star Edward Nelson has won the Glyndebourne Opera Cup, the Sussex-based opera house has announced.

The Sussex-based opera house has announced that the festival will be delayed until July, while the programme will include its first-ever production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.

Theatres, opera houses, concert halls and other venues up and down the country have been forced to close as the virus spreads across the UK.