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Join a community of like-minded arts lovers and enjoy a curated suite of exclusive events at VIVACE Nights throughout the season.
VIVACE Passes include performance tickets and access to special events, such as champagne receptions and post-show parties with artists, at a savings of up to 33%.
A 10-month payment plan is available exclusively for all VIVACE Packages!
The deadline to purchase a VIVACE Pass is Friday, May 18.
Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
Friday, September 21 | Academy of Music
Part of 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.
G.F. Handel & Philip Glass
Glass Handel
September 22 Preview | The Barnes Foundation
Part of O18
Superstar countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and luxury multimedia company Visionaire create an hour-long operatic art installation, featuring luminaries from the worlds of art, fashion, dance, and film.
Beecher/Moscovitch
Sky on Swings
Tuesday, September 25 | Perelman Theater
Part of O18
Is there grace in forgetting? Can time's cruel and random destruction of memory also produce fleeting moments of happiness and love? Starring Frederica von Stade and Marietta Simpson.
Part of the Queens of the Night Cabaret Series
Dito & Aeneas
Friday, September 28 | Theatre of Living Arts
Part of O18
Pomp, pageantry, and bawdy ballads await, courtesy of Blythely Oratonio (Stephanie Blythe) and Martha Graham Cracker (Dito van Reigersberg).
A reimagined La voix humaine
Ne Quittez Pas
Sunday, September 30 | Theatre of Living Arts
Part of O18
An intimate performance of French art and cabaret songs is followed by Poulenc's La voix humaine, one of opera's most powerful monodramas. Starring Patricia Racette.
Britten
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday, February 15, 2019 | Academy of Music
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.
Curtis Opera Theatre
Don Giovanni
Mozart
Thursday, March 7, 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.
Puccini
La bohème
Friday, May 3, 2019 | Academy of Music
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
Empty the House
Orth/Campbell
Sunday, May 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.
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VIVACE is for Opera Philadelphia patrons ages 21–45.
*Subject to availability and exchanges will not offer any special VIVACE events
**Season Pass tickets are transferable to other individuals between the ages of 21 and 45 if you are unable to attend a VIVACE Night.
^On VIVACE Nights only
Deposited checks or charges do not guarantee seating availability. Your reservation will be processed based on current donor level, number of years as a donor, number of years as a subscriber, package type, and date order is received. We will contact you in June to confirm fulfillment of your reservation, including final seating and pricing.
Casting, program, schedule, and pricing subject to change without notice.
The Academy of Music and Perelman Theater part of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts