If it’s December, it must be time for Opera Las Vegas’s annual Holiday on Broadway. An ensemble of some of the Valley’s top young singers will take audiences on a merry, fast-paced 60-minute journey through some of the best seasonal songs to be found in Broadway show scores. Old favorites will be featured along with new discoveries. And, as every year, there is a special ‘Vegas’ guest, with the arrival of “the King.” Free admission.

Holiday on Broadway

College of Southern Nevada

This Veteran's Day holiday weekend, Opera Las Vegas will sing the praises of all those who serve, with a varied 60-minute program ranging from light hearted Broadway fare (I'm in Love With a Soldier Boy, Over There, The Army's Made a Man Out of Me); and operetta (Modern Major General, Stouthearted Men); to selections from operatic "soldiers" in Carmen, Aida, and The Elixir of Love. The Youth Chorus will chime in with Faust's famous Soldier Chorus. The grand finale from The Chocolate Soldier, will sum up the the presiding sentiment of the concert: Hero Mine. Free admission.

Voices Raised for Vets

Windmill Library

Get ready for a day full of laughter, surprises, and clever tricks in Mozart’s sparkling and delightful Le nozze di Figaro. Figaro and Susanna, servants in the household of Count Almaviva, are excited to be married—but their plans are threatened when the Count, bored with his own marriage, sets his sights on Susanna. With the help of some smart friends (and a few disguises), Figaro and Susanna set out to outwit the Count and prove that love, loyalty, and honesty can win the day.

Le nozze di Figaro

College of Southern Nevada North Las Vegas Campus

Again and Again and Again is a comic chamber opera in one act based somewhat on Pierre Corneille’s classic meta-theatrical fantasy L’Illusion Comique and traces a father’s search for his son across four centuries. In rural France in 1789, Pridament, nearing the end of his life, visits the cave of the sorcerer Alcandra and asks him to help find his estranged son Clément who ran away from him ten years before. Alcandra agrees to show Pridament three visions that will explain his son’s whereabouts under the condition that he does not disrupt the visions in any way. The first vision shows Clément in an antic romance with Isabel that is not approved by her father Geronte. The second vision leaps ahead in time to 1987 when Clément is involved in a domestic dispute in a penthouse and is shot and killed. Pridament is grief-stricken, but Alcandra then reveals that Clément is an actor; that the first vision was of a Commedia Dell’Arte comedy in which he was performing and that the second is of an evening soap opera he was filming. In the third and final vision, Alcandra shows Clément in the present day. He has given up his life as an actor and now lives on a goat farm in Vermont with his husband and child. In an opera about the power of love to transcend time, father and son are finally reunited.

Athena Mertes

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Dec 13, 2025

Holiday on Broadway · Opera Las Vegas

Nov 15, 2025

Voices Raised for Vets · Opera Las Vegas

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Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart

Opera Las Vegas

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