ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES Friday, November 15 | 8 PM Sunday, November 17 | 2 PM Click here for tickets Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese girl, known as Butterfly, learns to trust and love an American naval officer, the reckless, pleasure-seeking B.F. Pinkerton. But when Pinkerton’s intentions are finally revealed, Butterfly’s dreams are destroyed in ways of...
ONLY TWO PERFORMANCES Friday, November 15 | 8 PM Sunday, November 17 | 2 PM Click here for tickets Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese girl, known as Butterfly, learns to trust and love an American naval officer, the reckless, pleasure-seeking B.F. Pinkerton. But when Pinkerton’s intentions are finally revealed, Butterfly’s dreams are destroyed in ways of...
What systemic barriers contribute to housing instability in the U.S.? Join us for a pre-show panel discussion with Coalition for the Homeless and ACLU! Performances to be announced soon. Monday, December 2, 2024 | 6-7:30 PM Opera Center
This ticketed event is open to donors and subscribers at all levels. We thank you for your support and invite you to peek into the art-making process. $20 per person includes admission, pastries, coffee & mimosas.
Since its first performance on Christmas Eve, 1951 on NBC, Amahl and the Night Visitors has been performed on nearly every continent and in many languages. This 1-Act opera tells the story of a poor boy who dreams of a better life for his widowed mother and captures the essential holiday spirit. Sung in English. Dec. 13,...
Art-centered community conversations that challenge tradition, question social narratives, and invite varied perspectives. Awakenings panels include artists, academics, government officials, and/or business leaders of our community. Awakenings events are free admission, and everyone is welcome. Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 6-7:30 PM Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health 708 Magazine Street, Louisville
This ticketed event is open to donors and subscribers at all levels. We thank you for your support and invite you to peek into the art-making process. $20 per person includes admission, pastries, coffee & mimosas.
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...
This ticketed event is open to donors and subscribers at all levels. We thank you for your support and invite you to peek into the art-making process. $20 per person includes admission, pastries, coffee & mimosas.
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 Terezín concentration camp in May 1945, we remember those who suffered and perished at the hands of the Nazis in WWII. This Holocaust remembrance concert will include a performance of For a Look or a Touch by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, and Brundibár by Hans Krása...
The signature event for Metro Louisville’s official Juneteenth Jubilee Celebration, Kentucky Opera’s Third Annual Amplify Songs of Justice is an evening of inspiring music, art, and spoken word commemorating this important date in American history.