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A wildfire of passion ignites the moment disgraced nobleman-turned-soldier Don Jose meets the beautiful, free-spirited Roma woman, Carmen, but it soons burn out of control, threatening to consume them both. You’ll enjoy the most beloved musical gems and dramatic moments from Georges Bizet’s blockbuster score in this compact, intimate, and scorching adaptation of Prosper Merimee’s original story.

Profoundly emotional. Deeply devotional. Sublimely beautiful. Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater is a sensitive and humble setting of the Crucifixion story, seen through the eyes of Mother Mary. The Tulsa Opera Signature Chorale, the Tulsa Opera Orchestra, and four talented soloists, under the baton of Artistic Director Aaron Beck, join forces to offer an evening of transcendence from despair to hope, anguish to ecstasy, darkness to radiant light.

It’s the most sought-after ticket of the season when international superstar soprano Renée Fleming, who has been heard everywhere from the opera stage to The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King to singing the National Anthem at the 2014 Superbowl, brings her legendary voice to Tulsa. Fleming’s acclaimed recital of Romantic and contemporary songs accompanied by orchestra to the backdrop of a beautiful film from the National Geographic Society. The program explores our evolving relationship with nature and the world we live in via classical song.

In Dean Burry’s adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s fantasy epic, the Elf King Elron asks Bilbo the Hobbit to create a musical drama about his adventures, resulting in a rollicking play-within-a-play complete with elves, goblins, Gollum, a mysterious Ring, and of course, the fire-breathing dragon, Smaug!