THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · LIKE® MUSIC
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The world's opera houses and concert halls — who runs them, who conducts them, what they stage, how many they seat, and how a reader gets through the door. LIKE® Music opens its worldwide guide coverage with the houses themselves, verified name by name in the season when more of the great podiums changed hands — or stood empty — than in any recent year.
THE GUIDE
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S OPERA HOUSES & CONCERT HALLS
38 venues — from La Scala, the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera to Bayreuth, Suntory Hall and the Sydney Opera House — with every house's intendant and music director verified to October 2026, its resident companies, its seats and its season. Four music-director chairs stand vacant and are printed as vacant; two famous handovers (Milan, Los Angeles) are dated, not blurred; the gaps are named, never padded.
LIKE MUSIC FEATURES
LIKE® MUSIC · 250 YEARS OF AMERICA
250 YEARS OF AMERICA: THE SOUND OF THE SWEARING-IN
From the Marine Band's first inaugural in 1801 to Nelly at the 2025 Liberty Ball — Truman's gala, Sinatra's blizzard, Aretha in the cold, and LIKE's own footage from the ballroom floor, closing the piece.
LIKE® MUSIC · THE FEATURE
SIMPLY RED — HOLDING BACK THE YEARS AT 40
LIKE Music's feature marking forty years of Simply Red's signature song — the department's popular-music coverage, alongside the Tony Bennett feature in the LIKE Music archive.
More Music guides will join this department in the months ahead.