Mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 International Opera Awards

Turnage’s opera Festen was among the works and musicians honoured at the 2026 RPS Awards, who also include Peter Moore, Elizabeth Alker, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Kirkaldy Orchestral Society. 

As the winner of the 2025 Best Opera House award, Bavaria's biggest multi-genre theatre, Theater Regensburg, will host the Oper! Awards in 2026.

The American conductor will take on his first Music Director role at an American institution from the start of the 2027–28 season.

Prestigious opera competition Operalia, held this year in Sofia, Bulgaria, is open to singers of all voice types between 20 and 32 years old.

Thangam Debbonaire will be the inaugural CEO of the new UK Opera Association, which will act as the collective voice for opera in the UK.

Helen Shute will begin her new role at English National Opera in November, as the company works to solidify its northern home in Manchester.