A cycle of entertainment and educational programmes for children and parents.

Opera is Fun!

The Estates Theatre

Experience Lon Chaney’s silent film masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera as it was meant to be seen with live orchestral accompaniment performed by the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra. Presented in the historic sanctuary of Plymouth Church, this annual Halloween tradition transforms one of cinema’s most enduring classics into an unforgettable concert event.

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 

Plymouth Church

A Night at the Opera returns to Cadogan Hall with a spectacular programme of operatic favourites. Featuring four outstanding soloists – soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor and baritone – the evening brings together some of opera’s greatest showstoppers, including the irresistible ‘Largo al factotum’ from The Barber of Seville, the triumphant ‘Toreador Song’ from Carmen, and celebrated ensemble highlights such as Mozart’s serene trio ‘Soave sia il vento’ from Così fan tutte and Verdi’s dramatic quartet ‘Bella figlia dell’amore’ from Rigoletto.

A Night at the Opera by Candlelight

Cadogan Hall

Since 2022, the International Competition for Great Opera Voices of Africa has been discovering and supporting young opera singers from the African continent and its diaspora. A springboard for careers as well as a manifesto for diversity, it has already brought forth voices that major stages are beginning to vie for.

Great Voices of Africa

Opéra Comédie

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Under 30? Then join Young Opera for free and make sure to attend our operas on the Young Opera Nights: one date in the run when you and hundreds of other young opera lovers enjoy a personal welcome, a free drink, a free digital programme booklet and an afterevent or other suprise.

Young Opera Nights

La Monnaie - De Munt

Opera Hong Kong Children Chorus proudly presents The Wizard of Oz – Youth Edition, a heart‑warming musical reminding us that “there’s no place like home.”

Dorothy Gale, swept away from Kansas by a tornado, lands in the magical land of Oz. Wearing ruby slippers and following Glinda’s guidance, she follows the Yellow Brick Road to seek the Wizard’s help. Along the way, she befriends the Scarecrow who longs for wisdom, the Tin Man who yearns for love, and the Lion who seeks courage. Together they face trials set by the Wicked Witch of the West, building friendship with resilience. While at Emerald City, they learn the Wizard is but an ordinary man; each of them already holds the qualities they desire. Dorothy discovers her true treasure lies at home – with Toto by her side, Dorothy returns to Kansas.

The Wizard of Oz

Verdi’s Il Trovatore is opera at its most vocally virtuosic, packed with passion, drama, and some of Verdi’s most famous melodies. Presented in concert with full orchestra and chorus, this performance lets the music shine with stunning clarity and emotional punch.

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Opera: Verdi, Il Trovatore, in concert

Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center

Sleigh Ride is a festive and heartwarming holiday concert that blends classical favourites with seasonal charm. You’ll enjoy the playful energy of Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, alongside selections from Handel’s Messiah, operatic highlights, and O Holy Night.

Sleigh Ride

The Machine Shop

Step into the gentle glow of candlelight and experience the true spirit of the season with Candlelit Carols, a heartwarming concert of music at the Cadogan Hall, London.

This enchanting concert blends uplifting carols and cherished seasonal classics in a beautifully staged setting. Let the elegance of the Mozart Festival Orchestra transport you with a festive programme.

Candlelit Carols

Who was Florence Price, beyond the music? Prolific American composer Florence Price made history as the first Black woman to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra. My Name is Florence was inspired by writings and correspondence unearthed in the backyard of her family home. Composed by B.E. Boykin to a libretto by Harrison David Rivers, the opera presents vignettes from Price’s life that bring into focus the impact of family, legacy, and the transformative power of a seat at the piano. With warmth and humor, My Name is Florence explores the complexities of identity, generational connection, and ultimately the power of music to transform. It is a celebration of Price’s enduring legacy in music and a reclamation of the space she occupies within the American musical canon.

Following its acclaimed world premiere at Minnesota Opera in January 2026, My Name is Florence returns for two special encore concert performances featuring the full original cast, MN Opera Orchestra, and MN Opera Chorus. Experience this beautiful and moving new work in the Ordway Concert Hall. The performances will be captured live and produced by Lexicon Classics.

My Name is Florence: Encore Concert

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Die Zauber­flöte für Kinder

Vienna State Opera

Step into the world of opera with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, one of the most exciting examples of verismo, or “real-life” opera. The story follows love, jealousy, and betrayal among traveling performers, full of soaring arias and intense drama that still grabs audiences today.

Opera and Theater

The Lincoln Center

Step into the Gunter Theatre for an evening of passion, drama, and some of the most unforgettable melodies ever written. In this intimate concert version of Georges Bizet’s Carmen, the Greenville Symphony brings one of opera’s greatest masterpieces within whisper‑close reach — led by Music Director Lee Mills and featuring national stars of the operatic stage alongside remarkable local and emerging talent. With a narrator guiding the story, this is Carmen like you’ve never experienced it: vivid and immediate.

Carmen in Concert

Peace Center

A rarely heard gem of French grand opera receives its long-awaited first performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jules Massenet’s take on the Biblical story of Salomé, inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s literary retelling, brings a surprisingly introspective flair to this dark drama of jealousy and obsession.

Hérodiade: An Opera in Concert

Lyric Opera House

Lakmé is Delibes' romantic fantasy of star-crossed lovers, accompanied by lilting, beautiful melodies and emotional arias. This concert presentation features romantic soaring orchestrations, including the famous "Flower Duet" and "Bell Song."

Lakmé in Concert

Seattle Center

The stage of the Teatr Wielki is a perfect arena for large-scale vocal and dance performances, yet its enormous space also provides an excellent setting for intimate solo performances. In the 2026/27 season, continuing the Grand Voices series, we will host internationally acclaimed artists admired by audiences around the globe.

Jakub Józef Orliński: Grand Voices Series

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

Apollo’s Fire and conductor Jeannette Sorrell are thrilled to return to Bach’s most legendary masterpiece on the 300th anniversary of its premiere in Leipzig (1727). In this dramatic presentation, the singers in the character roles (Jesus, Pilate, etc) interact with each other, singing from memory. The GRAMMY®-nominated chorus Apollo’s Singers is joined by children’s voices to create a sense of communal gathering in Sorrell’s interpretation. British tenor Ed Lyon, fresh from major successes at London’s Covent Garden, steps into the role of the Evangelist as an animated storyteller.

BACH’S St. Matthew Passion (Chicago)

St. James Cathedral

Alice Millar Chapel

Lust and desire, gracefulness and abandon, seduction and catastrophe: anyone who gets close to Lulu, who succumbs to the undertow of her charisma, is doomed to die. She seems innocent yet dangerous, an angel and a monster rolled into one. A woman portrayed with almost painfully realistic brushstrokes who is also a projection screen for subconscious fantasies and abysses. Lulu balks at nothing, and all her encounters are fatal – for those she meets. In the end, she herself has fallen, working as a prostitute whose last customer is the serial killer Jack the Ripper … Lulu is Alban Berg’s second opera. In 1928, he began composing it, but interrupted work multiple times, ultimately failing to complete the monumental project: in 1935, his death put a stop to his efforts, and Lulu remained a fragment. Based on texts by Frank Wedekind, the opera is one of the most important works of 20th-century musical drama, and the first to employ twelve-tone technique throughout. Its strict formal construction, however, is always in service to dramatic expression and the uncommonly subtle, colourful characterization of each of the numerous characters on stage – this is one of the secrets behind the success of this masterwork, so influential for 20th-century music.

Sakari Oramo and an exquisite ensemble of soloists take the gripping rollercoaster ride between beauty and feverish nightmares.

Femme fatale

Cologne Philharmonie

Tucson soloists Kyle DeGraff, Diana Peralta, Andrew Stuckey, Kristin Dauphinais, and others will perform with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a full production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.

Die Fledermaus – A Comic Opera

Pima Community College

A love that transcends. The mythical musician Orfeo descends into the underworld to reclaim his lost love, bound by one impossible condition: he must not look back. As doubt and longing take hold, each step forward risks losing her forever. In an intimate concert presentation, Gluck’s Orfeo & Euridice is stripped to its emotional core, where music carries the full weight of love, loss, and the fragile hope of holding on.

Opera is Fun!

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Young Opera Nights

La Monnaie / De Munt

The Wizard of Oz

Opera Hong Kong

Opera: Verdi, Il Trovator...

Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera

Sleigh Ride

Sault Symphony Orchestra

Candlelit Carols

Cadogan Hall

My Name is Florence: Enco...

Minnesota Opera

Die Zauber­flöte für Kind...

Wiener Staatsoper

Opera and Theater

Fort Collins Symphony

Carmen in Concert

Greenville Symphony

Hérodiade: An Opera in Co...

Lyric Opera of Chicago

Lakmé in Concert

Seattle Opera

Jakub Józef Orliński: Gra...

Polish National Opera

BACH’S St. Matthew Passio...

Apollo's Fire

Femme fatale

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

Die Fledermaus – A Comic ...

Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra

Gluck: Orfeo & Euridice i...

North Carolina Opera

Die Zauberflöte für Kind...