After two seasons away, the Cincinnati Opera is returning next summer with a new season of indoor and in-person performances.
Beginning in June 2022, the Cincinnati Opera will have a five-opera season, including three shows at Music Hall and two world premieres at the School for Creative and Performing Arts' Corbett Theater. The two premieres were delayed from what would have been the opera's 100th anniversary in 2020.
The opera, the second oldest opera company in the United States, will also have creative collaborations with renowned singers, directors, conductors, designers, the Cincinnati Opera Chorus, the Cincinnati Ballet and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, according to a release.
Operas in the 2022 season include:
- Giacomo Puccini’s "La Bohème" – June 18, 23 and 25, Music Hall
- Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Pirates of Penzance" – July 7, 9 and 10, Music Hall
- Giuseppe Verdi’s "Aida" – July 21, 23, 29 and 31, Music Hall
- William Menefield and Sheila Williams’s "Fierce" – July 6 and 8, SCPA's Corbett Theater
- Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s "Castor and Patience"– July 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30, SCPA's Corbett Theater
“As the arts reopen and stages in Cincinnati once again come alive, we can’t wait to get back home to Music Hall and SCPA,” Evans Mirageas, the opera's Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, said in a release. “We know how lucky we are to do what we love in such extraordinary venues, and to share with our community all that opera can be. Our 2022 season has been planned to do just that – to bring us together and remind us what it feels like to fall in love, to give us a reason to laugh out loud, and to move us with compelling stories that reflect the modern American experience.”
Mirageas said he hopes the new season is both a "welcome return to form and an exciting leap forward" for the opera.
Renewing Cincinnati Opera subscribers will be contacted with purchase information beginning in October. New subscriptions will go on sale in January 2022.
Single tickets will be available beginning in spring 2022.
For more information, visit cincinnatiopera.org.
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