La Bohème is coming June 25
Overview
Defining the Future of Opera
Our current and past seasons feature a diverse array of productions, from timeless classics to contemporary works.
Immerse yourself in the beauty and emotion of live opera at its finest.
2025-26 Season
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Opens September 5
Rigoletto
Gossip is Rigoletto’s stock-in-trade. As the court jester to a womanizing duke, there is plenty of scandal to go around, and his sharp tongue keeps him in gainful employment.
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Opens September 14
Dead Man Walking
Joseph De Rocher has been sentenced to death for murder. Armed with her faith, Sister Helen Prejean is accompanying him on his death row journey.
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Opens October 25
Parsifal
The Knights of the Holy Grail are in decline. Their ruler, Amfortas, is ailing from an unhealable wound. While the knight Gurnemanz wistfully recalls the prophecy of a guileless youth who will restore the order, he refuses to believe that the naive, young man before him could be that savior.
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Opens November 14
The Monkey King
A monkey born from stone, Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) is determined to find immortality for his tribe. Many scoff at his aspirations, but he is set on proving them wrong with his signature cunning and charm.
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Opens May 28, 2026
The Barber of Seville
A jack-of-all trades, the wily barber Figaro has a scheme for everything. Moved by the distress of two young lovers separated by the curmudgeonly Doctor Bartolo, Figaro pulls out his bag of tricks.
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Opens June 7, 2026
Elektra
In a brutal world where revenge is enacted with the axe, Klytämnestra has murdered her husband Agamemnon. Their daughter Elektra is consumed by her grief and is fixated on vengeance against her mother. Justice must be served.
2024–25 Season
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2024
Un Ballo in Maschera
September 6 – September 27
Fighting against fate, can Gustav forge a path to his beloved Amelia before his court falls apart? Verdi’s sumptuous, emotionally charged music weaves a tale of fate, betrayal, and forbidden desire amidst an opulent masquerade. -
2024
The Handmaid's Tale
September 14 – October 1
In a dystopian future, women are forced into childbearing servitude by an extremist theocratic regime. Based on the landmark novel by Margaret Atwood, this powerful drama is one of the most impactful operas of the twentieth-century. -
2024
Tristan and Isolde
October 19 – November 5
Can they find a realm vast enough to hold their passion? The apex of Romanticism and one of the world’s most influential artworks, Tristan and Isolde is a unique expression of love at the extremes of human possibility. -
2024
Carmen
November 13 – December 1
It is hard to escape the magnetic allure of Carmen. Bizet's evocative score features some of the most recognizable music in opera. -
2025
La Bohème
June 3 – 21
Rent is overdue, and the poet Rodolfo’s manuscript is reduced to kindling. But as the fire in the hearth dwindles, passion burns brightly amongst a group of friends. Experience the soaring highs and heartbreaking lows of bohemian life in Puccini’s most adored opera. -
2025
Idomeneo
June 14 – 25
Amidst a terrible storm, Idomeneo unknowingly promises the god Neptune the life of his own son Idamante. In this new Lindy Hume production, stunning projections of craggy coastlines and raging seas reverberate with Mozart’s majestic score.
2023–24 Season
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2023
Il Trovatore
A count condemned her mother to be burned as a witch. And when her plans for vengeance go horribly awry—resulting in the death of her own son— Azucena decides to raise the count’s kidnapped child as her own. -
2023
The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs
One device changed the way we interact with each other and the world, but what did it do to the man whose creative zeal brought it into existence? -
2023
Lohengrin
A woman is set against totalitarian society in Wagner’s epic masterpiece in which a knight in shining armor offers aid with a condition impossible to keep. -
2023
Omar
The true story of a 19th century Islamic scholar from West Africa, enslaved in South Carolina, but finding identity and faith through the written word. -
2023
The Elixir of Love
Lacking money, confidence and hope, a timid young waiter Nemorino gambles everything he has for a chance at an intoxicating romance with the alluring Adina. -
2024
The Magic Flute
May 30–June 30, 2024
Armed with nothing but a magic flute and magic bells, a prince and a bird-catcher embark on a perilous journey to rescue a kidnapped princess — only to discover that their adversary may actually be their ally. -
2024
Innocence
June 1–21, 2024
It was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives. But just as a bride and groom toast their marriage, a devastating secret unfolds that threatens to tear the couple apart, questioning where innocence and guilt begin and end. -
2024
Partenope
June 15–28, 2024
Partenope is the queen of the Paris social scene, her salon a magnet to the era’s surrealist artists as they vie for her hand in a laugh-out-loud comedy.
2022–23 Season
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2022
Antony and Cleopatra
He was a Roman general. She, an Egyptian queen. Their passion would redefine the world order.
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2022
Eugene Onegin
She loved him at first sight. But Onegin, an aristocrat obsessed with appearances, could never be happy with a country girl like Tatyana. Or so he thought.
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2022
Dialogues of the Carmelites
Death or dissolution. That's the choice facing one Carmelite convent as the Reign of Terror rips through revolutionary France.
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2022
La Traviata
Fame. Power. Fortune. Violetta Valéry has it all as Paris' most admired courtesan. But never has she allowed herself to experience true love.
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2022
Orpheus and Eurydice
What death has stolen, the musician Orpheus is determined to bring back. With Love as his guide, Orpheus journeys into the underworld to save his wife, Eurydice. But there is one condition: he must not look back at her until they return to the mortal world.
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2023
Madame Butterfly
Each night, the young Cio-Cio-San looks out over the port of Nagasaki, eagerly waiting the return of her husband, U.S. Naval officer Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. Alongside her is their young son, Trouble, who has never met his father.
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2023
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Half-spirit and half-mortal, the Empress lives in fear of a curse: If she doesn’t acquire a human shadow in three days’ time, the spirit world will reclaim her—and turn her husband to stone.
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2023
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
It's been three years since she passed. Now on the Day of the Dead in 1957, a lonely, ailing Diego Rivera makes a final wish: to see his wife Frida Kahlo once more. And the underworld heeds his call.