Conductor

Madama Butterfly is a timeless Puccini masterpiece, where Japanese traditions meet American dreams. Join us for an opportunity to hear from our stage director, conductor, and lead soprano about the exquisite melodies, exploration of love, sacrifice, and cultural collision in this production!

Our Versed series takes place as an intimate gathering in our very own Lueders Opera Center in the Riverwest neighborhood. These are FREE and open to the public.

Versed: Madama Butterfly

Wayne and Kristine Lueders Opera Center

One of the most beloved romances ever written. Experience this beautiful powerhouse opera, now set in Milwaukee’s 1940s Bronzeville. Luxuriate in the lush movie music and an all-star cast telling this double love story and bromance in a fresh way. Enjoy stage art created by 2019 Nohl Fellowship winner Ras ‘Ammar Nsoroma. Bronzeville expert and dramaturg Sheri Williams Pannell helps us explore this thriving-again city within our city, and the artists and citizens who built it. Original sets will bring Bronzeville alive for all of us to celebrate.

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La Bohème

Marcus Performing Arts Center

Opera at its grandest! While Aida delights audiences with its visual splendor, it also captivates them with a score ranging from exquisitely intimate arias to deeply dramatic duets and trios, and the most thrilling choruses Verdi ever composed. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, each of the five principal artists boasts not only a sumptuously beautiful voice, but also the charismatic presence to bring these characters and the opera's story of a riveting love triangle vividly to life. Conducting Francesca Zambello’s striking production will be Music Director Enrique Mazzola, acknowledged internationally as an exceptionally authoritative Verdian.

Aida

Lyric Opera House

One hour prior to each performance, audience members are encouraged to attend a free lecture that is open to all ticket holders. These lectures, held in the Tobin Center’s Feik Rotunda, are designed to be educational for opera-goers of all ages and are offered to help the audience gain a better understanding of the production they are about to experience.

Hansel and Gretel

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

DCWS once again performs at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, sharing the stage with world-renowned chamber music luminaries. 

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

The grandest of grand operas, Verdi’s classic tragedy is performed in concert.

Noted Verdi soprano Michelle Bradley performs the title role of the enslaved Ethiopian Princess Aïda. Aida’s beloved, Radamès, is sung by tenor Limmie Pulliam, fresh from his debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Triple Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung sings the role of Amneris, the Egyptian princess and Radamès betrothed. Morris Robinson and Todd Thomas, last seen in Tulsa Opera’s “Baseball Rigoletto,” return to perform the roles of High Priest Ramfis and Amonasro.

Aïda

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Indulge in the timeless allure of Puccini's masterpiece, Madama Butterfly, where Japanese traditions meet American dreams. As the exquisite melodies of Puccini's iconic score unfold, experience an exploration of love, sacrifice, and cultural collision. Delve into a world brimming with raw emotion as Cio-Cio San faces heartbreak, and her unwavering devotion leads to a devastating sacrifice for the future of her child.

Madama Butterfly

Acis & Galatea, Handel's charming and most performed opera since its creation, tells a tale of love, jealousy, and mythological mischief. Join us for an opportunity to hear from our stage director, conductor, and lead tenor about this production described as this production as “visual poetry”.

Versed: Acis & Galatea

Handel's charming and most performed opera since its creation, Acis & Galatea, tells a tale of love, jealousy, and mythological mischief. Director Meeker describes this production as “visual poetry”.  Imagine a shepherd falling for a sea nymph, only for a mythical cyclops to crash their love story. Fountains sprout from a lover’s tragic murder, adding a splash of resolution to heartbreak.

Acis & Galatea

Celebrated worldwide, Carmen remains an unmissable opera that inspired a legend. Join us for an opportunity to hear from our stage director, conductor, and lead mezzo soprano about this production of love, obsession, and fate!

Our Versed series takes place as an intimate gathering in our very own Lueders Opera Center in the Riverwest neighborhood. These are FREE and open to the public.

Versed: Carmen

Celebrated worldwide, Carmen remains an unmissable opera that inspired a  legend. Bizet’s Carmen is centered on the passionate and free-spirited Carmen, a seductive cigarette factory worker who lives by her own rules. Her love triangle with soldier Don José and bullfighter Escamillo leads to jealousy, betrayal, and tragedy. Carmen's fierce independence and tragic end make it a compelling tale of love, obsession, and fate.

Francesco Milioto

Conductor

Events

Upcoming events

18 - 20 Oct, 2024

Madama Butterfly · The Florentine Opera

Jan 28, 2025

Versed: Acis & Galatea · The Florentine Opera

14 - 16 Feb, 2025

Acis & Galatea · The Florentine Opera

May 7, 2025

Versed: Carmen · The Florentine Opera

16 - 18 May, 2025

Carmen · The Florentine Opera

Past events

Oct 9, 2024

Versed: Madama Butterfly · The Florentine Opera

19 - 21 Apr, 2024

La Bohème · The Florentine Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Aida by Verdi

Tulsa Opera

Conductor in Così fan tutte by Mozart

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 21 by Mozart

Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings

Conductor in Madama Butterfly by Puccini

The Florentine Opera

Conductor in Carmen by Bizet

The Florentine Opera

Conductor in Aida by Verdi

Lyric Opera of Chicago

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