Aims and scope

Opera News: Journal of Music and Performing Arts is a monthly, diamond open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing scholarship, creativity, and critical dialogue in music and the performing arts. The journal provides an international platform for researchers, educators, performers, composers, directors, choreographers, designers, and other creative practitioners to communicate original ideas, research findings, artistic practices, and critical perspectives.

The journal aims to strengthen connections between academic research and professional artistic practice by publishing work that contributes to the understanding, interpretation, creation, teaching, production, and performance of music and the performing arts. It encourages historical, theoretical, analytical, cultural, pedagogical, technological, and practice-based approaches, as well as interdisciplinary research that brings the performing arts into dialogue with the humanities, social sciences, education, media, technology, and cultural studies.

Through its diamond open-access model, the journal makes all published content freely available to readers and does not charge authors submission, processing, or publication fees. All research submissions are evaluated through a single-blind peer-review process to maintain academic quality, originality, and relevance.
 

The journal welcomes original research articles, review articles, scholarly essays, case studies, critical reviews, practice-based studies, and interdisciplinary contributions in areas including, but not limited to:

Opera studies, operatic traditions, and contemporary opera
Musicology, ethnomusicology, and music history
Music theory, analysis, composition, and interpretation
Performance studies and performance theory
Theatre, drama, dramaturgy, and directing
Dance, choreography, and movement studies
Vocal studies, singing, and voice pedagogy
Instrumental performance and performance practice
Orchestral, chamber, choral, and ensemble studies
Stage production, scenography, lighting, costume, and set design
Acting, directing, rehearsal, and production processes
Music and performing-arts education and pedagogy
Practice-based and artistic research
Cultural policy, arts administration, and audience development
Music, theatre, and dance within social, political, and cultural contexts
Gender, identity, representation, and diversity in the performing arts
Traditional, folk, indigenous, and community performance practices
Digital performance, multimedia arts, sound design, and recording technologies
Film music, musical theatre, and interdisciplinary performance
Archival research, documentation, preservation, and cultural heritage
Reviews of performances, productions, festivals, books, recordings, and relevant media

The journal particularly welcomes contributions that present innovative methodologies, examine underrepresented traditions, connect theory with artistic practice, or offer comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. Submissions may focus on historical or contemporary subjects and may address local, regional, national, or international contexts.

Opera News: Journal of Music and Performing Arts serves both academic and professional communities and seeks to foster inclusive, rigorous, and meaningful discussion across the diverse fields of music and the performing arts.