The Snowy Day Music by Joel Thompson Libretto by Andrea Davis Pinkney Premiered December 9, 2021, Houston Grand Opera The Snowy Day is a fully staged, sixty-minute opera that turns one snowy morning into a heartfelt adventure, brought to...
Read moreMacbeth Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei Premiered March 14, 1847, Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy Who shapes the truth—and what happens when the stories we tell take on a life of their...
Read moreThe School for Lovers (Così fan tutte) Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Premiered January 26, 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria Gentle readers, take note: The School for Lovers (Così fan tutte) follows two couples drawn into a...
Read moreLa traviata Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Premiered March 6, 1853, La Fenice, Venice, Italy La traviata opens Opera Colorado’s 2025-26 Season, inviting audiences to discover why it remains one of the most celebrated operas...
Read moreMadama Butterfly Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Premiered February 17, 1904, La Scala, Milan, Italy Madama Butterfly makes its highly anticipated return to Opera Colorado, bringing Puccini’s emotionally charged masterpiece to the stage....
Read moreOpera Colorado is pleased to present Daughter of the Regiment A Salute to Love Music by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard Premiered February 11, 1840, Salle de la Bourse, Paris, France Revel in the light-hearted...
Read moreOpera Colorado is pleased to offer La bohème Life is Short, Live it Fully Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Premiered February 1, 1896, Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy In an attic in the Parisian Latin Quarter,...
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A Downfall of Biblical Proportions Samson and Delilah Music by Camille Saint-Saëns Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire Premiered December 2, 1877, Ducal Theatre, Weimar Opera Colorado closes the season with Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the biblical story of Samson and Delilah....
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A Ghostly Legend Comes To Shore The Flying Dutchman Music and Libretto by Richard Wagner Premiered January 2, 1843, Königliches Hoftheater Dresden Wagner’s supernatural drama makes landfall with Opera Colorado this winter. The captain of a legendary ghost ship...
Read moreNo Bad Deed Goes Unpunished Don Giovanni Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Premiered October 29, 1787, Estates Theatre Be seduced by Mozart’s classic masterpiece, Don Giovanni, a tale about a serial womanizer who cares...
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