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Britain’s extraordinary early-music ensemble visits with another exquisite concert performance of a Handel masterwork in what has become an eagerly anticipated highlight of each Cal Performances season.

The English Concert

Cal Performances

Queen Rodelinda navigates a dangerous political web to protect her throne and family while her love for her supposedly dead husband reignites in a dramatic clash of passion and ambition. A timeless tale of love and redemption unfolds in a new production that captivates from start to finish.

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Rodelinda

The Santa Fe Opera

The 81st Season comes to a jubilant close with the return of The Barber of Seville, Gioachino Rossini’s riotously funny comic masterpiece, at Bass Performance Hall. A Fort Worth favorite that last had audiences rolling in the aisles in 2016, Barber returns in a vibrant new production bursting with quicksilver wit, buoyant physical comedy, and some of the most instantly recognizable music ever written for the stage.

 

​​​​​​​​​Since its premiere, Rossini’s Barber of Seville has become one of the most frequently performed operas in the world—and it’s clear from the opening notes of the overture. Drawing inspiration from Pierre Beaumarchais’ razor-sharp comedy, Cesare Sterbini’s sparkling libretto and Rossini’s effervescent score deliver nonstop comic invention: disguises pile up, plans unravel, and laughter comes fast and often. As the Minnesota Star Tribune raved, it’s “a delirious joy…a burst of sumptuous music [and] gales of laughter.”

The Barber of Seville

Bass Performance Hall

Prince Tamino sets out to rescue Princess Pamina from the formidable Queen of the Night (yes, her mother), armed with a magical flute and an anxious companion, Papageno. What begins as a straightforward mission quickly opens into a world of rigid traditions, obscure rules, and trials that test far more than bravery.

This is not just Tamino’s journey. Pamina faces the same ordeals, makes the same choices, and proves herself every bit his equal. Inspired by classic epic fantasy in the spirit of The Wheel of Time, Mozart’s The Magic Flute is a fantastical and occasionally heart-stopping adventure, where the world is strange, the path is uncertain, and—against all odds—love still wins.

Bass

William Guanbo Su

Events

Upcoming events

Jul 25 - Aug 21, 2026

Rodelinda · Santa Fe Opera

16 - 18 Apr, 2027

The Barber of Seville · Fort Worth Opera

14 - 16 May, 2027

The Magic Flute · The Florentine Opera

Past events

Mar 8, 2026

The English Concert · Cal Performances

Future and recently performed repertoire

Garibaldo in Rodelinda by Handel

Santa Fe Opera

Sarastro in The Magic Flute by Mozart

The Florentine Opera

Hercules in Hercules by Handel

Cal Performances

Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville by Rossini

Fort Worth Opera

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