Since 2000 the KSO has collaborated with UK and CCM’s Opera Theater programs to bring concert grand opera to NKY with complete performances of Tosca, Otello, La Boheme, Rigoletto, Samson and Delilah, and Turandot to rave reviews.

Teaming up for the first time with NKU’s School of the Arts (SOTA) and their music, theater, dance and prep departments, the KSO and SOTA will bring Georges Bizet’s Carmen to Greaves Concert Hall for two performances with a cast and orchestra of 200. Nationally and internationally acclaimed leads Kirstin Chávez (Carmen), Richard Trey Smagur (Don José), and Morgan Smith (Escamillo) will join the partnership for this semi- staged, concert presentation of Carmen in French with projected English supertitles. Plenty of “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” — just no Cher.

Carmen in Concert

Greaves Concert Hall

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Classical Series Concert 3: Symphonic Shakespeare

Civic Auditorium Santa Cruz

Watsonville High School

Set in a world devoid of color and inspired by the imagery of surrealist painter Remedios Varo, a lone tree holds within its rings the memory and possibility of music, poetry, and art. An herbalist struggles to heal a community afflicted by a siege of maladies, and a homesick boarding-school student dreams of escape. An ancient medicinal, written in Spanish (one of countless forbidden languages), just may hold the key — to transcendence, or complete obliteration. This searing new opera looks at a culture rapidly strip-mining itself of its riches, and embraces the realm of the imagination as fertile ground for regeneration.

Remedios Varios Para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu

Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Starring Angel Blue, Kang Wang and George Gagnidze

Verdi’s LUISA MILLER

The George Washington University

We move next to the beautiful University City home of Dr. Richard and Mary Ann Shaw. This concert will showcase several past and present CRESCENDO! Scholarship winners, along with bassoonist Donita Bauer and pianist Jonathan Heaney. CRESCENDO! is one of Union Avenue Opera’s flagship outreach initiatives, now in its eleventh year, which offers undergrads from the St. Louis area free training, coaching and scholarship and performance opportunities. This specially curated program will offer a variety of styles and genres sure to delight.

2025 House Concert Series 2

Home of Dr. Richard and Mary Ann Shaw, University City

The Charleston Gaillard Center, in association with the Charleston Jazz Festival, proudly presents Terence Blanchard’s FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES: OPERA SUITE IN CONCERT featuring special guests Justin Austin and Adrienne Danrich.  Performed by Terence Blanchard and E-Collective, the performance beautifully bridges the worlds of jazz and classical music, showcasing the emotional depth and improvisational spirit that jazz brings to opera.

Charleston Jazz Festival | Charleston Gaillard Center presents Terence Blanchard | Fire Shut Up in My Bones: Opera Suite in Concert

Gaillard Center

This concert version of Così fan tutte will spotlight renowned baritone Thomas Hampson, whose gift as a stage director is also featured in this performance.

Mozart’s Così fan tutte: The Dangerous Game of Love

Place des Arts

Although Puccini felt his creative powers were on the decline when he composed his last opera, he doesn’t appear to have run out of ideas. Thomas Søndergård, known for his skill in leading opera, now brings to the Twin Cities the high drama of Puccini’s Turandot, which features the emotionally-riveting aria “Nessun Dorma.” The cast is headlined by star soprano Christine Goerke in the title role.

Søndergård Conducts Puccini’s Turandot

Minnesota Orchestra

The legendary story of the lovers of Verona has inspired many composers of classical music. Works that employ the motif of Romeo and Juliet can be found in the oeuvre of Hector Berlioz and Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In the 20th century Sergei Prokofiev composed a ballet based on the Shakespearian play, while Leonard Bernstein drew on it to write the musical West Side Story. In the 19th century the trope of feuding families fascinated Vincenzo Bellini. His opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi, however, did not prove as popular as yet another operatic take on teh story: Charles Gounod’s Romeo i Juliet.

Romeo And Juliet Concert Version

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

We conclude our 2025 series in the Engine House #1 home of Marion B. Smith, a local architect who has transformed the former firehouse into her home, architectural offices, gallery and artist’s space. For this special evening a quartet of UAO’s string players – Wanda Becker, Lorraine Glass-Harris, Stephen Luehrman, and Beverly Field along with mezzo-soprano Debra Hillabrand will present Jake Heggie’s 2012 Camille Claudel: Into the Fire. This dramatic 8 movement work is inspired by life and work of the French sculptor Camille Claudel.  The quartet will also perform the beautiful Puccini quartet Chrisantemi.

2025 House Concert Series 3

Engine House No. 1

You don’t need sets or costumes (or even live elephants!) to appreciate the magnitude and wonder of Aida, Verdi’s tumultuous tale of love and loyalty set in Ancient Egypt. All you need is a prima donna as spectacular as soprano Angel Blue, whose “voice perforated the hearts of her listeners and miraculously captured the tortured oscillations of Aida’s existence perfectly” (OperaWire), reported after a concert production led by BSO Music Director Jonathon Heyward with the Detroit Opera. This concert adaptation allows the beauty and drama of the original opera to soar on the symphonic stage.

Jonathon Heyward conducts VERDI’s Aida

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

An Operatic Nanny Romp through 17th-Century Italy.

Concerto Romano

Emmanuel Church Boston

Legendary soprano Renée Fleming and special guests will take you on a sensational journey through your favorite musical showstoppers in this breathtaking one-night-only concert with the LA Opera Orchestra.

Renee Fleming & Friends

The Music Center

In summer 2025, an open-air opera will once again take place in the picturesque Taunus hill town of Lorch-Espenschied. After highly dramatic productions such as "Tosca", "Nabucco", "La traviata" and "La bohème", the fairytale opera "The Magic Flute", which is popular with young and old, will now be performed on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. Mozart's masterpiece is one of the most famous, most performed and most visited operas in music history.

The Magic Flute

Dorfmitte Espenschied (Open Air) 

"Tenors are a rare species, good tenors even more so, brilliant and good-looking ones are about as rare as white unicorns," writes "Klassik begeistert.de" in 2022 about Jonathan Tetelman. "A star par excellence" is what one reads in the New York Times, "dark-colored tenor timbre" (SZ) and "balsamic verve" (Der Tagesspiegel). The critics' unanimous verdict is also "voice and charisma" when it comes to the 35-year-old Chilean-American opera star Jonathan Tetelman .

On June 15, 2025, visitors to the Alte Oper Frankfurt will experience Jonathan Tetelman, a tenor who can certainly be counted among the most impressive singers of all time. In a solo concert, Tetelman will not only sing the most famous tenor arias by Puccini, Verdi and other composers, but will also treat the audience to the most beautiful Neapolitan melodies. The soloist will be accompanied by the renowned Thuringia Philharmonic Gotha-Eisenach . Frédéric Chaslin will conduct .

Star tenor Jonathan Tetelman presents Puccini, Verdi and Neapolitan songs

Alte Oper Frankfurt

Can one choice change everything? Edgar, just the second opera that Giacomo Puccini ever composed, tells the story of a man torn between the promise of virtue and the allure of vice, where love and desire collide with devastating consequences. Moments of striking lyricism underscore a tale of indecision, self-delusion, and betrayal that leads to ruin. With the MN Opera Orchestra and MN Opera Chorus on stage behind a cast of singers, this rare concert presentation offers a tantalizing glimpse into the mind of a master still discovering his voice, just a few years before his greatest triumphs.

Carmen in Concert

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Santa Cruz Symphony

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Chicago Opera Theater

Verdi’s LUISA MILLER

Washington Concert Opera

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Charleston Jazz

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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

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Minnesota Orchestra

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Polish National Opera

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Union Avenue Opera

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The Washington Chorus

Concerto Romano

Boston Early Music Festival

Renee Fleming & Friends

LA Opera

The Magic Flute

Opera Classica Europa

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Opera Classica Europa

Edgar in Concert

Minnesota Opera