Bring your picnics and lawn chairs! We're celebrating the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer and the 80th Anniversary of Freedom Summer. Gather with friends for a night of classical music, spirituals, and musical theatre. Maybe even sing along! This concert is FREE!
On what would be Fannie Lou Hamer's 107th birthday, Kentucky Opera celebrates the work and life of a voting rights legend. Baritone Jorell Williams performs spirituals and classical music by Black composers and poets, accompanied by pianist Taylor Burkhardt. Tickets on sale now! Click here
ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES Premium Ticket Pre-Sale: June 25 @ 10 am Single Ticket On-Sale: July 16 @ 10 am Click here for tickets Kentucky Opera opens the 2024/25 season with a two-night only, limited run of Puccini’s heartbreaking tragedy Madama Butterfly. In a groundbreaking production presented in a bold new point of view, Puccini’s haunting...
ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES Premium Ticket Pre-Sale: June 25 @ 10am Single Ticket On-Sale: July 16 @ 10am Click here for tickets Kentucky Opera opens the 2024/25 season with a two-night only, limited run of Puccini’s heartbreaking tragedy Madama Butterfly. In a groundbreaking production presented in a bold new point of view, Puccini’s haunting score is...
Set in the 1930s, this Kentucky Opera production captures the essential spirit of Christmas. Follow the Three Kings as they stop for shelter at the home of Amahl, a poor, crippled shepherd boy who lives with his widowed mother. Inspired by the Wise Men’s tale of a kingdom “built on love alone,” Amahl offers his...
This Little Light of Mine, composed by Chandler Carter to a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, is inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper’s daughter who rose to national prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. As a Black woman of humble origins, she spoke truth to power, coalescing broad support...
Kentucky Opera’s innovative production of this classic tale weaves the original myth with an empowering opera reimagined through the lens of a woman’s perspective in the contemporary world. Céphise is a 1950s housewife trying to live up to society's standards. What will she find when she gets there? Sung in English. April 4, 2025, 8...
Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camps of the Holocaust, we remember those who suffered and perished at the hands of the Nazis in WWII. This chamber concert will feature a performance of Brundibár – a short opera known to be performed by the incarcerated of Terezin – as well as other...