Three beloved classics offer a fresh lens on today's world.
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This season we present three operas that you very likely know and love. (We certainly do.) But along with this invitation to enjoy the finest the canon has to offer comes a promise to stage each in a way that will make you fall in love anew. We hope you will join us.
Puccini
La bohème
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
September 21–30, 2018 | Academy of Music
New Production
Part of Festival O18
A seductively beautiful and deeply disturbing tale of love unhinged that escalates to one of the most haunting mad scenes in all of opera. Starring Brenda Rae.
Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream
February 8–17, 2019 | Academy of Music
U.S. Production Premiere
Robert Carsen's celebrated and jovial adaptation of Shakespeare's popular comedy follows a throng of characters as they get tangled in love triangles, mistaken identities, and alarming transformations.
Puccini
La bohème
April 26–May 5, 2019 | Academy of Music
Beloved Revival
This popular revival of Puccini's romantic blockbuster features sets inspired by masterpieces from the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman unites the exceptional young singers at the Curtis Institute of Music with an opera company committed to nurturing young talent and an ideal venue for opera—the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater.
Mozart
Don Giovanni
March 7–10, 2019 | Perelman Theater
R. B. Schlather, the “edgy and imaginative young director” (The New Yorker) behind O17’s The Wake World brings his distinctive vision to Mozart’s classic opera, led by Karina Canellakis, part of an exciting new generation of female conductors.
Orth/Campbell
Empty the House
May 2–5, 2019 | Perelman Theater
A composer who "breaks new ground" (Opera News), Rene Orth is a recent graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and an Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence. Her 2016 opera Empty the House is a poignant exploration of the complex nature of forgiveness with a libretto by Mark Campbell (Elizabeth Cree, Silent Night).
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Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman is a partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music, Opera Philadelphia, and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The Curtis Opera Theatre season is sponsored by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.
The Academy of Music and Perelman Theater are part of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts