Toi, toi, toi to our colleagues at Santa Fe Opera, who open their 61st Festival season tonight with Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, starring Susan Graham, Kurt Streit, and Devon Guthrie. The season also features the highly-anticipated world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, starring Edward Parks and Sasha Cooke, beginning on ...

Toi, toi, toi to our colleagues at Wolf Trap Opera, who open their season tonight at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Falls Church, Virginia!

Their season runs June 17 to August 19, and features:

• Glass’ The Fall of the House of Usher | Jun 17


• Rossini’s The Touchstone (La pietra del paragone) | June 23 ...

Toi, toi, toi to our colleagues at Des Moines Metro Opera, who open their 45th season tonight with Puccini's Turandot, starring Alexandra Lobianco and Jonathan Burton.

Their season runs June 23 to July 16th, and features:

• Puccini's Turandot | Jun 23, 25, 30, Jul 8, 13, 16


• Sondheim's A Little Night Music | Jun ...

In the first installment of our "Developing Audiences and Organizations" series, soprano Katy Lindhart profiles one of the crown jewels of New York City's independent opera scene: LoftOpera.

This week, our YAP Bootcamp brings you a sortable list of paid American YAPs — over 50 — to help you start to strategize application season.

In our inaugural "Cities and Scenes" post, Soprano Emma Cox breaks down the vocal music scene in the Windy City for fans and singers alike.

Welcome to the OpusAtlas Mail Bag! Each month I’ll answer questions from OA readers, and try my best to demystify some aspects of the opera/classical singing world. Everything is fair game, so let me know what’s on your mind!

All summer long, we are running this YAP Bootcamp series to introduce our readers to this mainstay of the American singer training process. As the summer progresses, our readers will learn how YAPs function, which companies have YAPs, how to find them, how to apply, and how to ensure that their application materials are top-shelf ...

Our first month at the blog, and we’re diving right in!

June. School's out for summer. You may only have one more year until you're thrust cruelly out of the comfort of academia and into the unpredictable world of professional singing. If you and your teacher have determined that it's time ...

Welcome to the blog at OpusAtlas!

I am so excited to share this blog with our readers. As with all of OpusAtlas, the preparation and planning of this blog, and the content you will see in the coming months, has been fastidiously designed to give our readers a steady stream of engaging and relevant content in all facets of opera.