Friends of the Opera (FOTOs) Season Kickoff Party

Join fellow FOTO members and art enthusiasts to celebrate the start of the cultural season! You’ll enjoy a performance by an Austin Opera Resident Star, light bites, wine, bubbly, and a signature cocktail. Saturday, September 7, 2024 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. At the home of FOTO Co-Chair Stephanie Pace and Robert Smith Tickets are […]

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Puts and Campbell’s The Manchurian Candidate

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

The 2024–2025 Season opens at the Long Center in November with The Manchurian Candidate, the compelling operatic adaptation of Richard Condon’s 1959 political thriller by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell – the same Pulitzer-Prize-winning team that created Silent Night. Winner of four Austin Critics Table Awards, this complex and gripping story of patriotism, corruption, political ambition, and […]

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Puts and Campbell’s The Manchurian Candidate

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

The 2024–2025 Season opens at the Long Center in November with The Manchurian Candidate, the compelling operatic adaptation of Richard Condon’s 1959 political thriller by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell – the same Pulitzer-Prize-winning team that created Silent Night. Winner of four Austin Critics Table Awards, this complex and gripping story of patriotism, corruption, political ambition, and […]

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Verdi’s Requiem

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

In celebration of Timothy Myers’ 2023 appointment as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director, Austin Opera is thrilled to announce the launch of a new series: Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers. Opera Unleashed will offer a series of company premieres over the coming seasons featuring some of the most historically significant works composed for the […]

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Verdi’s Requiem

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

In celebration of Timothy Myers’ 2023 appointment as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director, Austin Opera is thrilled to announce the launch of a new series: Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers. Opera Unleashed will offer a series of company premieres over the coming seasons featuring some of the most historically significant works composed for the […]

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Puccini’s Madame Butterfly

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San (Raquel Gonzalez), affectionately known as “Butterfly,” is seduced by the dashing U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton (Joseph Dennis). After a hasty wedding separating Cio-Cio-San from her family, […]

Recurring

Puccini’s Madame Butterfly

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San (Raquel Gonzalez), […]

Recurring

Puccini’s Madame Butterfly

Dell Hall, the Long Center 701 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX, United States

The mesmerizing beauty and heart-rending tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant Madame Butterfly returns to Austin Opera in April. In one of opera’s most heartbreaking stories, the young geisha Cio-Cio-San (Raquel Gonzalez), […]