Director

Young Frederic, mistakenly apprenticed to a band of possibly the world’s most incompetent pirates, has finally turned 21. At last he is free to fall in love — which he promptly does — and fulfill his duty, which is to destroy pirates. There’s just one catch! Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious, swashbuckling romance is a comedy classic bursting with toe-tapping tunes from “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General” to “I Am a Pirate King,” from “Poor Wand’ring One” to “O, Is There Not One Maiden Breast?”.

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The Pirates of Penzance

 The University of Tulsa

Join Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Westminster Choir College Margaret Cusack and Tosca Stage Director Eve Summer for an in-depth look at the Princeton Festival's production. You will learn about the plot, what to watch and listen for onstage, and hear special commentary from the director. There will be a Q&A session immediately following the presentation.

Exploring Tosca

Morven Museum & Garden 

The Princeton Festival Guild invites anyone curious about what goes into putting on an opera to this roundtable discussion. Panelists will discuss the upcoming Princeton Festival production of Puccini's Tosca. The cast and artistic team will provide delightful insights into artists’ roles, and the joys and challenges of being in the opera business.

2025 Artists' Roundtable

Princeton Public Library

Curtis Opera Theatre presents a double bill featuring Francis Poulenc’s outrageously funny farce, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, alongside Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s darkly satirical “ballet chanté,” The Seven Deadly Sins, at the Philadelphia Film Center.

Les Mamelles de Tirésias & The Seven Deadly Sins

Philadelphia Film Center

In a co-production with Opera Columbus, Jeweled with some of opera’s most beloved arias, Rigoletto contains all of the thrills and pathos that make grand opera famous.

Rigoletto

Ohio Theatre

We are ready to sing, dance, and swashbuckle through Gilbert and Sullivan’s hilarious topsy turvy operetta The Pirates of Penzance. Candy colored seaside fun, pirates preoccupied with moral dilemmas, a loquacious major general, and of course a charming romance will keep you smiling and tapping your feet through this most delightful and tuneful comedy that promises to be fun for the whole family!

East Grand Rapids Performing Arts Center

In a co-production with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, CAPA and Opera Columbus. Composed by Giuseppe Verdi and inspired by Alexandre Dumas Fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, La Traviata unfolds as a poignant tragedy. Officially the most performed opera worldwide, La Traviata is Verdi’s twisting love story that explores class, reputation and devotion, with heartbreaking consequences. The story centers on Violetta Valéry, a celebrated courtesan who discovers true love in the arms of Alfredo Germont. However, social pressures and Alfredo’s disapproving father compel her to renounce their love for the sake of his family’s reputation. Overcome by heartbreak and illness, Violetta ultimately finds her way back to Alfredo, but their reconciliation comes too late—she dies in his arms, underscoring the opera’s powerful themes of love, sacrifice, and societal judgment.

Director

Eve Summer

Events

Upcoming events

25 - 26 Apr, 2026

La Traviata · Opera Columbus

Past events

Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2026

The Pirates of Penzance · Tulsa Opera

Jun 15, 2025

Exploring Tosca · Princeton Symphony Orchestra

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