Is there any grace in forgetting? This new chamber opera finds fleeting beauty in memory loss through an unflinching yet uplifting exploration of living with Alzheimer’s disease. Starring Frederica von Stade and Marietta Simpson.
Hear tomorrow's stars on today's stage, as members of Opera Philadelphia's Emerging Artists Program from the Curtis Institute of Music perform in recital. Co-presented with the Curtis Institute of Music.
A seductively beautiful and deeply disturbing tale of love unhinged that escalates to one of the most haunting mad scenes in all of opera. Starring Brenda Rae.
An intimate performance of French art and cabaret songs is followed by Poulenc's La voix humaine, one of opera's most powerful monodramas. Starring Patricia Racette.
Superstar countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and luxury multimedia company Visionaire create an hour-long operatic art installation, featuring luminaries from the worlds of art, fashion, dance, and film.
Pomp, pageantry, and bawdy ballads await, courtesy of co-hosts Blythely Oratonio (Stephanie Blythe) and Martha Graham Cracker (Dito van Reigersberg).
Robert Carsen's celebrated and jovial adaptation of Shakespeare's popular comedy follows a throng of characters as they get tangled in love triangles, mistaken identities, and alarming transformations.
R. B. Schlather, the “edgy and imaginative young director” (The New Yorker) behind O17’s The Wake World brings his distinctive vision to Mozart’s classic opera, led by Karina Canellakis, part of an exciting new generation of female conductors.
This popular revival of Puccini's romantic blockbuster features sets inspired by masterpieces from the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A composer who "breaks new ground" (Opera News), Rene Orth is a recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and an Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence. Her 2016 opera Empty the House is a poignant exploration of the complex nature of forgiveness with a libretto by Mark Campbell (Elizabeth Cree, Silent Night).
