Set Designer

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.

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Cinderella

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Oklahoma!

Musical Arts Center

Originally written for four-handed piano, this 2011 chamber opera for 13-piece orchestral ensemble is based on the 1814 novel by Jane Austen. The narrative follows the impoverished Fanny Price, who is sent as a child to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle at their family estate, Mansfield Park.

Mansfield Park

When the smoke clears, only truth is left standing.

Set in Richmond, VA, Intelligence is inspired by a gripping true story of espionage, sacrifice, and the fight for freedom. With the Civil War blazing, Elizabeth Van Lew, a socialite from a prominent Confederate family, is running a secret pro-Union spy network that feeds intelligence to the North. Working alongside her, Mary Jane Bowser, an enslaved woman who becomes a spy, infiltrates the heart of the Confederacy. With dramatic storytelling, a pulse-pounding score, and electrifying movement, Intelligence reveals how two brave women came together, risking everything for freedom.

Intelligence

George Mason University

Dominion Energy Center

Harrison Opera House

Step into a world of wit, wonder, and vocal fireworks as OPERA San Antonio opens the season with Cinderella in a charming new production from Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Rossini’s take on the beloved fairy tale lets Cinderella shape her own destiny. With a sparkling score, outrageous comedy, and a visually playful production inspired by the style of Wes Anderson, this Cinderella promises an evening of elegance, laughter, and sheer musical delight.

In this new opera for families, a young girl named Maya discovers a dazzling ruby ring in her grandmother's belongings. She rubs the jewel and accidentally releases a genie, leading to chaos as she wishes her cat and toy unicorn to life. Realizing she is in a pickle, Maya must choose her final wish carefully. Join Lyric Opera of Kansas City for this hilarious story of family and magic.

Maya and the Magic Ring

Green Hills Library Center

Midwest Genealogy Center

Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church

Victory Hills Baptist Church

Woodneath Library Center

Lawrence Arts Center

Midwest Trust Center

Experience the intensity and drama of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece, "Macbeth," brought to life by The Atlanta Opera. This season, immerse yourself in a world where ambition, power, and supernatural prophecies collide in a dark and riveting narrative. With no love story to soften its edges, "Macbeth" stands out as an opera that Verdi himself declared to be unlike any other, focusing solely on the relentless scramble for power at any cost.

Leading the cast in this magnificent production are Michael Mayes as Macbeth and Sara Gartland as Lady Macbeth, whose passionate and dramatic performances anchor the opera's tightly paced action and magnificent music. This production marks the second in our series of operas based on the works of Shakespeare, offering a fresh perspective on the timeless tale of ambition, guilt, and fate.

"Macbeth" is performed in Italian with English supertitles, ensuring that audiences can fully engage with the story's intricate details and emotional depth. The opera unfolds in four acts over approximately 2 hours and 55 minutes, with an intermission allowing for reflection on the powerful events depicted on stage.

The performances are scheduled to take place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, offering a fittingly grand and atmospheric setting for Verdi's operatic exploration of power and madness. With performances on select dates in March 2025, including a matinee option, there are multiple opportunities to experience this compelling production.

Under the baton of conductor Iván López Reynoso and the visionary direction of Tomer Zvulun, with live action direction by Ran Arthur Braun, this production of "Macbeth" promises to be a highlight of The Atlanta Opera's season. Don't miss your chance to witness the ambition, the prophecy, and the tragedy of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in an opera that continues to captivate audiences with its intensity and musical brilliance. Subscriptions and tickets are available now for what promises to be a memorable and stirring operatic experience.

Macbeth

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Every seven years a ghostly ship pulls into port captained by a man known simply as The Dutchman. Condemned to eternally roam the seven seas, only the pure heart of a faithful bride can free The Dutchman from a demonic curse. In a windswept fishing village, he finds Senta, a young woman obsessed with his dark legend. But can this match made in heaven truly save him from his hellish fate?

The Flying Dutchman

Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Hansel and Gretel

After the death of his beloved Eurydice, Orpheus vows to plunge into the very depths of the Underworld itself to bring her back. Moved by Orpheus’s passion, Amore (Cupid) appears and agrees to aid him in the rescue of his wife so long as he does not look at her until they return to the land of the living again.

Orpheus & Eurydice

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

A new production by Tomer Zvulun.

Tosca is a pulse-pounding thriller of love, loyalty, and lethal power. When fiery diva Floria Tosca and her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi, are blackmailed by the ruthless police chief Scarpia, devotion is tested against tyranny and desire curdles into obsession.

As political intrigue tightens its grip, the drama hurtles toward moments of breathtaking intensity—where faith, art, and love stand against oppression.

Set Designer

Steven Kemp

Events

Upcoming events

14 - 22 Nov, 2026

Orpheus & Eurydice · Pittsburgh Opera

1 - 9 May, 2027

Tosca · Atlanta Opera

Past events

15 - 17 Oct, 2026

Cinderella · OPERA San Antonio

17 - 26 Apr, 2026

Oklahoma! · Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

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