The New York Festival of Song sees Kate Lindsey in the Fugitives concert program on February 12, 2026 at the Kaufman Music Center. The acclaimed program includes songs from the concert stage, the movies, Broadway and Berlin’s cabarets, tracing the varied fates of the composers who faced destruction during Hitler’s rise to power. Some began new lives and brilliant careers abroad, others were to meet with darker ends. Featuring works by Kurt Weill, Franz Schreker, Alexander Zemlinsky, Friedrich Hollaender, Kurt Tucholsky, Erich Korngold, Hanns Eisler and many others. mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey shares the stage with baritone Justin Austin and pianists Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois.
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Piotr Beczala sings Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Berlin State Opera. Petr Popelka conducts. Performances are on February 8, 11, and 13, 2026.
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Olga Kulchynska takes on the role of Marguerite in the new production of Gounod‘s Faust at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Staged by Lotte de Beer and conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, Faust with Jonathan Tetelman in the title role and Kyle Ketelsen as Méphistophélès premieres on February 8 and can be later heard on February 13, 16, 18, 22, 27.
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Soprano Emily Pogorelc returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper to make her role debut as Marie in Bedřich Smetana’s comic opera Die verkaufte Braut. This engagement marks her first appearance with the house since completing her tenure as a member of the ensemble from 2020 to 2023. The production is directed by David Bösch and conducted […]
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Olivia Smith sings Helena in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at Theater St. Gallen, conducted by Robert Howarth. The premiere is on February 7, 2026. Further performances follow on February 15, March 1, 2, 24, and April 12, 2026.   For more information, please click here  
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Filipe Manu travels with the Vienna State Opera to Monaco and makes his house debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Ferrando in Così fan tutte. The performance takes place at the Grimaldi Forum on February 9, 2026.
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Kate Lindsey takes on the part of the Virgin Mary in Berlioz’s L’enfance du Christ in concerts on February 6 (Auditori de Castelló) and 7 (Auditori de Les Arts) with Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana conducted by Sir Mark Elder. The mezzo presents the sacred trilogy alongside bass-baritones Gordon Bintner and William Thomas and the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana.
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Baritone Matthias Goerne joins Andris Nelsons, the Gewandhausorchester, and MDR-Rundfunkchor for an all-Mendelssohn program: Erde, Hölle und Himmel ("Christus"), Psalm 42 "Wie der Hirsch schreit", and Die erste Walpurgisnacht.​ Goerne shares the stage with soprano Nikola Hillebrand, alto Catriona Morison, tenor Werner Güra, and bass Alexander Grassauer.​ As part of »Tacheles – Jahr der Jüdischen Kultur in Sachsen 2026«, this concert honors Mendelssohn, grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, who bridged Jewish-German worlds despite his Christian upbringing. The program is performed at two concerts in Gewandhaus in Leipzig on February 6 and 8.
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Maestra Keri-Lynn Wilson returns to the Opéra national de Paris to conduct Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Bastille, in Calixto Bieito’s searing, modern staging. She leads the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus alongside a stellar cast featuring Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Victoria Karkacheva as Carmen, Russell Thomas and Jean‑François Borras as Don José, Amina Edris as Micaëla, and Erwin Schrott as Escamillo.  Performances take place on February 7, 10, 13, 19, 22, 25, 28 and March 3, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19 2026.
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