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October 2019

The Culture of Costumes

October

07:00 PM | $40

KANEKO

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You’re invited to an evening of crafted cocktails, culinary delights, opera and conversation - inspired by the creative collaboration between Opera Omaha and Jun Kaneko. Dress to express yourself and join us as we explore the culture and curation of costumes...

Behind the Curtain with Girl Scouts

October

10:00 AM | $5

Opera Omaha Event Space

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Learn about storytelling, music and art, and design your own costume and set as you work with artists and opera singers for the ultimate opera experience! Girl Scouts is partnering with Opera Omaha for this interactive workshops and behind-the-scenes look at t...

Symphony Spooktacular: The Haunted Hall

October

02:00 PM | $15

Holland Center

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Holland Community Opera Fellow Kate Pomrenke will perform with the Omaha Symphony for an afternoon of spooky classical fun! There’s something spooky going on at the Holland Center!

Opera in Conversation: Butterfly in Context & Politics of Exoticism

October

06:00 PM | FREE

Le Bouillon

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In order to decipher Madama Butterfly, this conversation disentangles the intricate geopolitical as well as cultural conditions Japan faced in the late nineteenth century vis-à-vis the United States and Europe. To this end, it also explores the im...

BBQ, Bourbon & Baritones

October

06:00 PM | $75

The Living Room

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BBQ, Bourbon and best yet, the warm and rich sounds of a baritone voice filling the space!

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October 24 at 6pm

The Living Room

1111 North 13th Street

Honorary Hosts:

Tom and Cecilla ...

OPERAtion Storytime

October

10:30 AM | FREE

W. Clarke Swanson Branch, Omaha Public Library

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Introducing opera to our youngest audiences. Presented in collaboration with the Omaha Public Library, OPERAtion storytime includes an opera themed book, and opera/vocal activities with an Opera Omaha Holland Community Opera Fellow. This storytime explores ...

Special Midday Music Panel: Artistry and Identity

October

12:00 PM | FREE

Opera Omaha Event Space

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A panel conversation with Madama Butterfly Artists and Community Partner Inclusive Communities. In opera, the canonical body of work was written within the context of its time, often over 100 years ago, these works mirror the ideas, power structure...

The Met Live in HD: Manon

October

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Dr. Matthew Reznicek, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Manon’s story—from innocent country girl to celebrated courtesan to destitute prisoner—is one of the great tragic tales in literature and music. Lisette Oropesa stars as the ...

Opera in Conversation: Artistic Choices and Obligations

October

06:00 PM | FREE

Le Bouillon

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Madama Butterfly is a beautiful operatic tragedy, but it was written in a time when exoticism of Japan, japonaiserie, was du rigueur. This concept of the exoticism of Japan relied on superficial observations and stereotypes of Japanese peo...

November 2019

Opera and Entrees - Madama Butterfly

November

05:00 PM | $75

Monarch Prime / Hotel Deco

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Enhance your opera experience by joining the Opera Omaha Guild for an astonishing three-course meal before the opening night of Madama Butterfly! Located directly across from the Orpheum Theater, this fabulous farm to table food by Monarch Prime & Bar’s reno...

Madama Butterfly

November

07:30 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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An innocent young Japanese woman swept away by a dashing American naval officer is the heroine of a tragic tale of love, betrayal and, ultimately, sacrifice. With its heartbreaking melodies, *Madama* Butterfly has earned a place in history as one of the most p...

Madama Butterfly

November

02:00 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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Creative Aging Program Workshop Two

November

01:00 PM | FREE

UNO

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Opera Omaha is Piloting a multi-generational Creative Aging Program with UNO’s Department of Gerontology! Join us for three sessions to learn about the opera, share the opera experience, and participate in a collaborative workshop, all with UNO students.

The Met Live in HD: Madama Butterfly

November

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Kaitlin Zardetto, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Hui He stars as Cio-Cio-San, the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer Pinkerton, sung by Andrea Carè. Elizabeth DeShong is her devoted companion Suzuki, ...

Opera Book Club: Lincoln in the Bardo

November

06:30 PM | FREE

The Bookworm

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This is the first of three meetings of Opera Book Club!

Lincoln in the Bardo | Wednesday, November 13 | 6:30 pm

Author: George Saunders | Composer: Missy Mazzoli | Commissioned by: The Metropolitan Opera

We are partnering with The...

The Gotta Be Me Heartlighter Show

November

06:30 PM | $15

The Scottish Rite Masonic Auditorium

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Our 5th Annual Gotta Be Me Heartlight Choir fall production is here! Inspired by our love of all things Jim Henson, you will laugh until your belly aches, see some marvelous music and meet some very special guests, including the Opera Omaha Holland Community ...

OAYO Fall All Orchestra Concert

November

03:00 PM | $20

UNO Strauss Performing Arts Center

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Fellow Jared Hiscock, will perform with musicians in Omaha Area Youth Orchestra's Fall Concert. In collaboration with Omaha Area Youth Orchestra

Gallery 1516 Recital-Opera Favorites

November

11:30 AM | FREE

Gallery 1516

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Join conductor, Sean Kelly, and Holland Community Opera Fellows Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor, soprano; Jared Hiscock, baritone; Kate Pomrenke, soprano; Kaitlin Zardetto, mezzo-soprano as they perform favorite opera arias and duets

Free and open to the pub...

The Met Live in HD: Akhnaten

November

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Sean Kelly, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Phelim McDermott, whose productions include the hugely successful Satyagraha by Philip Glass, returns to the Met with a new staging of Glass’s Akhnaten, conducted by Karen Kamensek in her ...

December 2019

ONE Festival Preview Concert

December

07:00 PM | FREE

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

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A musical preview of the ONE Festival operas St. John the Baptist and The Capulets and The Montagues. The Fellows and members of the Trinity Cathedral Schola will perform baroque works of Stradella, and various musical interpretations of t...

Healing Arts Holiday Concert

December

12:00 PM | FREE

University of Nebraska Medical Center

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Opera Omaha Holland Community Opera Fellows perform a free concert for patients, families, staff, students, and the public in the lobby and the Chihuly Sanctuary at the Buffet Cancer Center. In collaboration with the UNMC Nebraska Medicine Healing Arts Pr...

January 2020

The Met Live in HD: Wozzeck

January

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts William Kentridge’s new production of Alban Berg’s expressionistic masterpiece Wozzeck, regarded for its intense emotional power and brilliant score as one of the most ...

February 2020

The Met Live in HD: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

February

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Shelby VanNordstrand, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess returns to the Met for the first time since 1990, in a new production directed by James Robinson in his company debut. America’s “folk opera,”...

The Abduction from the Seraglio

February

07:30 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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A brazen rescue attempt brings Belmonte to The Seraglio, an elegant night club where his beloved Konstanze is held against her will as the club’s star attraction and object of the dubious owner’s affection. This witty new production of Mozart’s situation...

The Abduction from the Seraglio

February

02:00 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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Opera Book Club: A Thousand Splendid Suns

February

06:30 PM | FREE

The Bookworm

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This is the second of three meetings of Opera Book Club!

A Thousand Splendid Suns | Wednesday, February 19 | 6:30 pm

Author: Khaled Hosseini | Composer: Sheila Silver | Commissioned by: Seattle Opera

We are partnering with The Boo...

The Met Live in HD: Agrippina

February

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | In the Met’s first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel’s satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar reconceives a production he originally created for the Monnaie in Brussels in 2000, evok...

March 2020

The Met Live in HD: Der Fliegende Holländer

March

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Dr. Matthew Reznicek, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | François Girard, whose mystical, blood-drenched vision for Wagner’s Parsifal became one of the Met’s most intensely visceral highlights in recent seasons, turns to another Wag...

St. John the Baptist

March

07:30 PM | FREE

To Be Announced

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A dramatic and emotionally vivid telling of the final days of John the Baptist, a spiritual leader reduced to pawn in the lustful bargain between Herod and his own stepdaughter, Salome. Through the prism of an ancient story, Opera Omaha’s new production by d...

St. John the Baptist

March

07:30 PM | FREE

To Be Announced

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St. John the Baptist

March

02:00 PM | FREE

To Be Announced

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April 2020

The Capulets and the Montagues

April

07:30 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece is a seldom-seen telling of Romeo and Juliet, the infamous “star-crossed lovers” engulfed by rival political factions on the brink of war. Known to us through Shakespeare but inspired by writings of the Italian Renaissance...

St. John the Baptist

April

02:00 PM | FREE

To Be Announced

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The Capulets and the Montagues

April

02:00 PM | FREE

Orpheum Theater

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St. John the Baptist

April

07:30 PM | FREE

To Be Announced

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The Met Live in HD: Tosca

April

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk by Dr. Matthew Reznicek, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Sir David McVicar’s bold staging of Puccini’s operatic thriller returns to the Live in HD series after its acclaimed broadcast in 2017. This time, star soprano Anna Netrebko is...

Opera Book Club: The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

April

06:30 PM | FREE

The Bookworm

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This is the third of three meetings of Opera Book Club!

The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay | Wednesday, April 15 13 | 6:30 pm

Author: Michael Chabon | Composer: Mason Bates | Commissioned by: The Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orc...

May 2020

The Met Live in HD: Maria Stuarda

May

11:15 AM | $24

Film Streams Ruth Sokolof Theater

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Opera Omaha Prelude Talk, 11:15 am | Opera, 11:55 am | Donizetti’s drama, focused on the political and personal rivalry between two queens, returns to the Met with Diana Damrau as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, and Jamie Barton as her rival, Queen Elizabe...