On Stage 2018 - 2019
Discover our 44th Season
A Midsummer Night's Dream
U.S. Production Premiere
Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears
Based on the play by William Shakespeare
Opera at the Academy
Performed in English with English supertitles
Don Giovanni
New Production
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
La bohème
Beloved Revival
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Opera at the Academy
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Riders to the Sea & Empty the House
New Production
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams / Libretto by Ralph Vaughan Williams & John Millington Synge
Music by Rene Orth / Libretto by Mark Campbell
Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman
Performed in English with English Supertitles
Lucia di Lammermoor
New Production
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Opera at the Academy
Performed in Italian with English supertitles
Sky on Swings
World Premiere
Music by Lembit Beecher
Libretto by Hannah Moscovitch
American Repertoire Program
Performed in English with English supertitles
Ne Quittez Pas: A Reimagined La voix humaine
New Production & Company Premiere
Music by Francis Poulenc
Libretto by Jean Cocteau
Based on the play by Jean Cocteau
Performed in French with English supertitles
Glass Handel
World Premiere Production
Music of George Frideric Handel & Philip Glass
Atmospheric Interlude by Rene Orth
Performed in English and Italian
Queens of the Night
Music Direction & Arrangements by Daniel Kazemi
Text by John Jarboe with Stephanie Blythe and Dito van Reigersberg
Performed in English