2024-2025 Season
Austin Opera's 2024-2025 season includes three productions at the Long Center for the Performing Arts and the launch of a new program in celebration of Timothy Myers’ 2023 appointment as the Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director.
The season opens in what is sure to be a politically charged November 2024 with the return of the compelling political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, which delighted a packed house in its one-night-only 2016 Austin Opera debut. February brings the company premiere of Verdi’s Requiem in the launch of a new series, Opera Unleashed: Epic Masterpieces with Timothy Myers, featuring the powerful voices of soprano Leah Crocetto, mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum, and tenor Limmie Pulliam in their company debuts, alongside returning bass Wei Wu and a supersized chorus. The season closes with the beauty and tragedy of Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, presented in a groundbreaking new co-production with Opera San Antonio.
The 2024-2025 Season offers a fresh journey for both longtime opera lovers and newcomers to the art form, with performances of one masterpiece composed 150 years ago and another written as recently as 2015, alongside a unique opportunity to experience a new opera as it is being developed. I am especially thrilled to launch our partnership with Opera San Antonio with a co-production of Madame Butterfly that harnesses the artistic resources of both companies, conducted by Sarah and Ernest Butler Music Director Timothy Myers and directed by E. Loren Meeker, Opera San Antonio’s General Director.
Austin Opera's 2024-2025 Season
Verdi's Requiem
February 1& 2, 2025
