Opera Las Vegas is set to captivate audiences with a diverse lineup of musical events in 2025. From the spirited 'Celebración Latina', which melds traditional mariachi with opera, to the timeless 'Viva Verdi!', showcasing Verdi's greatest operatic hits, and the comically charming 'H.M.S. Pinafore', there's something for everyone. Featuring a host of talented performers and a blend of cultural influences, these events promise to be a feast for the senses, inviting both seasoned opera lovers and newcomers to experience the magic of live performance.

A Harmonious Affair: Celebrating Opera and Music with Opera Las Vegas

Giuseppe Verdi was a noted Italian composer of operas. To say that it is an understatement is itself... an understatement! Verdi produced some of the finest lyric theatre pieces in the history of opera, and this program will offer a "greatest hits" parade of world famous selections from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il trovatore, Falstaff, and more!

Know Before You Go: No food and beverages will be served during the performance. Food and beverage will be sold pre-show and during intermission only.

Viva Verdi!

Myron’s at The Smith Center

Now in its second year after a tremendously successful 2024 premiere, our unique partnership for Celebración Latina - A Mariachi Fiesta will find OLV collaborating with the College of Southern Nevada's Award-winning Mariachi Plata for a festive presentation of traditional music and Zarzuela (Spanish operetta), mingled with unique recent lyric theatre compositions and bi-lingual narration, starring soprano Cecilia Violetta López, baritone Octavio Moreno, and pianist Nathan Salazar.

Celebración Latina

College of Southern Nevada North Las Vegas Campus

Originally set in the charming ambiance of 19th century Spain, we are re-imaging this iconic comedy in current-day Hollywood, where pop princess Rosina is fresh out of rehab after a messy breakup and public meltdown. She’s moved in with her overbearing producer and manager, Dr. Bartolo, who has more than her career on his mind. With the assistance of aging rock legend, turned celebrity voice coach, Don Basilio, Bartolo hopes to marry the young Rosina. However, Hollywood heartthrob Count Almaviva also has his eye on Rosina but wants to win her heart the old-fashioned way, not because of his fame, so he disguises himself as a humble student to approach her. Figaro, a stylist to the stars, and a man-about-town is on the scene to aid with the love connection. A host of personal assistants, housekeepers, out-of-work actors, and even the LAPD show up in this laugh-a-minute comedy.

This production will be sung in Italian with English supertitles and accompanied by a live orchestra featuring members of the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Christopher Bozeka's appearance generously Sponsored by Linda Berry.

The Barber of Seville

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.

Again and Again and Again

The Space

Wine and song go together so naturally that Opera Las Vegas is going to merrily serve up both along with a sumptuous meal, at Opera Uncorked on Tuesday, 10 September at Monzú Italian Oven + Bar, at 5:30 pm.

Patrons at this mini-gala can expect to be treated to timeless tunes paired with exquisite wines and Chef Gio's delectable full course repast, as OLV’s full-throated troubadors lead a musical toast with some of the most celebrated drinking songs and party scenes in all of Operadom. Three outstanding vocalists also promise to regale attendees with a few more ‘sobering’ world-famous arias and duets that figure prominently on the opera hit parade.

Opera Uncorked

Monzú Italian Oven + Bar

Set aboard the British ship HMS Pinafore, this delightful operetta tells the tale of Ralph Rackstraw, a lowly sailor, who falls in love with the captain's daughter, Josephine. Despite the social divide, Ralph's determined pursuit of Josephine's heart faces obstacles from her father, Captain Corcoran, who has other matrimonial plans for her involving the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. With a cast of colorful characters, charming songs, and a series of surprising revelations, this witty and satirical story navigates themes of love, duty, and social class, ultimately leading to a joyous and unexpected resolution where love conquers all.

Opera Las Vegas

6 - 8 Jun, 2025

H.M.S. Pinafore

Apr 6, 2025

Viva Verdi!

Mar 16, 2025

Celebración Latina

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