Opera Omaha’s community programs begin with curiosity: What can opera make possible when it meets people where they are? The work of Opera Omaha extends beyond the Orpheum stage and into classrooms, galleries, neighborhoods, libraries, and community spaces across the region. Through collaboration and creativity, opera becomes a catalyst for connection, imagination, and shared experience throughout Omaha.
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Through collaboration and creativity, opera becomes a catalyst for connection, imagination, and shared experience throughout Omaha.
Holland Community Opera Fellowship
The Holland Community Opera Fellowship is built on genuine collaboration with community partners. Through the Fellowship, opera becomes something people help shape, not simply something they observe. HCOF works with community partners to co-create programming that helps individuals, organizations, and communities reach their goals.
Opera Omaha @
These free concerts bring live music and local artists into spaces across the Omaha metro. You may be surprised where opera appears next.
Poetry & Music Project
The Opera Omaha Poetry and Music Project is an annual program run in partnership with the Nebraska Writers Collective to amplify the voices of youth poets, both urban and rural, across Nebraska and Iowa. Students are invited to submit poems on the theme, and professional composers select poems that move them from a robust collection of writing submitted by young writers in grades K-12 and create original music inspired by the selected poems. This program culminates in public performance of the selected poems -now songs.
Student Dress Rehearsals
Each season Opera Omaha welcomes hundreds of students and their teachers to experience opera through our free student dress rehearsal program.
A chorus of collaborators
We never sing solo. Opera Omaha’s community work is built with partners who know, love, and serve this city. Omaha is home to a special network of dedicated arts organizations, non-profits, and creatives that help our city flourish
