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# Kentucky Opera

More than you ever imagined

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## Pages

- [Kentucky Opera](https://kyopera.org/) - Kentucky Opera is committed to offering meaningful arts experiences for all ages through our youth programs. Financial assistance available. Art-centered conversations that dive into the context and relevance of each show. Free and open to the public! Opera Café Open to Kentucky Opera subscribers and donors of all levels, Opera Café is your opportunity to
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://kyopera.org/frequently-asked-questions/) - If it's your first time at the opera, you might ask: What should I wear? How should I act? Can I bring the kids? This page has answers to all of your questions.
- [About The Opera Center](https://kyopera.org/about-the-opera-center/) - The Opera Center is Kentucky Opera's new, state-of-the-art performing arts center, located at 708 Magazine St in Louisville. Box office open 10am–4pm, Tues-Fri.
- [Youth Opera Project](https://kyopera.org/youthopera/) - Explore the excitement of singing and the thrill of theatre with Kentucky Opera's Youth Opera Project. Learn from professionals in a nurturing and engaging environment as you prepare to represent Kentucky Opera as one of its performing company members. This program is intended for ages 8-18. All skill levels are welcome; no experience necessary! FACULTY
- [Awakenings](https://kyopera.org/awakenings/) - Dive deeper into the current context & relevance of opera in free, public discussions by panels include community members, production staff, & featured artists.
- [Così fan tutte](https://kyopera.org/cosi-fan-tutte/) - così fan tutte Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte Vocal Score by Bärenreiter Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health 708 Magazine St March 18, 2027 | 7:30pmMarch 20, 2027 | 7:30pm March 21, 2027 | 2:00pm Two men take a risky bet on the fidelity of their fiancées, then disguise themselves
- [Salome](https://kyopera.org/salome/) - Salome Music by Richard Strauss Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann adapted from Oscar Wilde's play of the same name Whitney Hall at the Kentucky Center 501 West Main Street May 7, 2027 | 7:30pmMay 8, 2027 | 7:30pm Family dysfunction has never been as vividly rendered as it is by Strauss in this landmark operatic adaptation
- [Staff & Board](https://kyopera.org/staff-board/) - Staff & Board Office of the CEO Ben Robinson General Director + CEO Vanessa Braswell Executive assistant to the CEO & board liaison Advancement Sarah Bushman Director of advancement Emily Vergason Advancement Coordinator Martin French patron services representative Katie Scoone communications coordinator Artistic and Production Kate Winegarden Director of Production Bitz Cole Cooley Lead production
- [Barber of Seville](https://kyopera.org/barber-of-seville/) - The Barber of seville Music by Giachino Rossinin Libretto by Cesare Sterbini W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre 315 W Broadway October 9, 2026 | 7:30pmOctober 11, 2026 | 2pm Laugh-out-loud antics and mayhem meet an exercise fueled romp in Rossini’s madcap comedy. When a disguised count falls for the ward of a local bigwig, only a
- [Announcing our 2026/2027 Season](https://kyopera.org/announcing-our-2026-2027-season-2/) - Season 2026/2027 Join the familyWe invite you to an unexpected and impactful season celebrating opera through the powerful lens of family. Subscription packages will be available for renewal beginning in March. Subscription packages go on sale to new subscribers May 4. Single tickets on sale in August! The Barber of Seville W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre
- [Cotton](https://kyopera.org/cotton/) - Cotton Music by Damien Geter Libretto by Lauren Alleyne, Charlotte Blake Alston, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Nikki Giovanni Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health 708 Magazine St November 20, 2026| 7:30pmNovember 21, 2026 | 7:30pm November 22,2026| 2:00p Acclaimed Philadelphia artist John Dowell felt called by his grandmother in a dream to travel to the cotton
- [Costume Couture: Fête de Josette 2026](https://kyopera.org/costume-couture-fete-de-josette-2026/) - YOU'RE INVITED TO CELEBRATE COSTUME ARTISTRY & A REMARKABLE LEGACY Join Kentucky Opera for an unforgettable evening celebrating the artistry behind the curtain and the remarkable legacy of Josette Miles, whose more than four decades of craftsmanship have helped bring countless productions to life. As Josette celebrates her 90th birthday, we invite you to honor the woman
- [Back to the Brown](https://kyopera.org/back-to-the-brown/) - Thank you for your support of our Back to the Brown fundraising campaign! This coming season, we celebrate and explore themes of family – and for our opening production of The Barber of Seville, there’s no place like home. We are overjoyed to return to Louisville’s beloved Brown Theatre for this madcap comedy. Thank you to all of the Kentucky Opera community members who contributed to a successful Back to
- [Youth & School Programs](https://kyopera.org/youth-and-school-programs/) - Kentucky Opera's youth & school programs reach ~20k young people per year in programs such as Bravo Time, Youth Opera Project, In-School Opera Tour, & Overture.
- [Opera Café](https://kyopera.org/opera-cafe/) - Opera Café Open to Kentucky Opera subscribers and donors of all levels, Opera Café is your opportunity to hear directly from the director and conductor of each Kentucky Opera production. The Barber of Seville- Speed Art Museum Saturday, September 19, 2026 Holiday Cabaret- Brennan HouseSaturday, December 5, 2026 Cosi fan Tutte- KMAC Saturday, March 6,
- [Press Room](https://kyopera.org/news/) - Press Room Welcome to Kentucky Opera's press room. Here you will find our latest news, press releases, and media resources. For press inquiries or credentials,please contact us! Press Releases EXTENDED: Kentucky Opera seeks local artists to create production images for their 75th season. Kentucky Opera seeks local artists to create production images for their 75th season.
- [](https://kyopera.org/7636-2/) - KO 27-28 Season Artwork RFQ - June 2026 - extensionDownload
- [Production Rentals](https://kyopera.org/set-rentals/) - Production Rentals Explore availability For more information, contact Geoffrey McMahon at productionrentals@KYOpera.org Costume Rentals All is Calm Ariadne auf Naxos Cinderella Don Giovanni The Embarrassed Tutor Enemies, A Love Story Hansel and Gretel Maria de Buenos Aires The Pirates of Penzance A Streetcar Named Desire Set Rentals All is Calm Glory Denied Maria de Buenos
- [Before Freedom Rang: A Juneteenth Story of Kentucky's Emancipation Truth](https://kyopera.org/before-freedom-rang-a-juneteenth-story-of-kentuckys-emancipation-truth/) - By Dr. Paula McCraney Presented by the Louisville Metro Juneteenth Jubilee Commission and Kentucky Opera Friday, June 19 7:00 PM Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts: Bomhard Theatre Free Admission for all. Reservations required. Register here
- [Season Subscription Packages](https://kyopera.org/season-subscription-packages/) - Our 2026/2027 Season Subscription Packages are now on sale! This year we will be using a Choose Your Own model for building your package. Select at least one performance from at least two different productions and you have created a subscription package! This year we are very excited to be performing in three different venues.
- [Box Office & Tickets](https://kyopera.org/kentucky-opera-box-office/) - Kentucky Opera box office is at 708 Magazine St in Louisville, KY, and is open Tues–Fri from 10am–4pm. Visit to buy tickets or subscribe to our current season.
- [Corporate Giving](https://kyopera.org/corporate-giving/) - Corporate Giving Support Your Community, Amplify Your Brand With an exciting season of performances and events, there are many good reasons to consider sponsorship of Kentucky Opera. Customizable partnerships offer business the opportunity to sponsor a production, event, or artist. Artist & Production Sponsorships With over 11,000 attendees at our performances alone, production and artist
- [Support Kentucky Opera](https://kyopera.org/support-kentucky-opera/) - Learn how you can support Kentucky Opera through corporate partnership, gifts of cash/securities, & IRA rollover. Save the date: 70th Anniversary Gala: 02/04/23
- [Mission & History](https://kyopera.org/mission-history/) - Learn about how Kentucky Opera became one of the foremost American opera houses, and a fixture in the Louisville music & arts communities.
- [Robin hood: a youth opera](https://kyopera.org/robinhood26/) - robin hood a youth operaMusic by Ben MooreLibretto by Kelley Rourke Co-directed by Taylor Burkhardt and Grace Ashley Saturday, June 6 | 2 pmSunday, June 7 | 2 pm A new youth opera full of swashbuckling fun, daring escapades, and a timeless story of justice and courage that reminds us all to “lead with love.”
- [Subcriber Benefits](https://kyopera.org/subcriber-benefits/) - Subscribe now Subscriber Benefits Exclusive Season Savings Take advantage of the season's best prices by securing one of our season packages with a discount on entire season! No Ticketing Fees Say goodbye to that 12% ticketing fee on every purchase. Subscribers are never charged ticketing fees. Complimentary Exchanges Exchange as many times as you like for
- [Songs My Mother Taught Me](https://kyopera.org/songs-my-mother-taught-me/) - Songs My Mother Taught Me SOLD OUT!!! A family friendly concert celebrating mothers, motherhood, and female parent figures May 10, 2026 | 2pm Songs My Mother Taught Me celebrates all the mother figures in our lives with all the (musical) trappings of a Mother’s Day done right: breakfast in bed, flowers, mimosas, and gorgeous poetic
- [Meet the artists of "Songs my Mother Taught Me"](https://kyopera.org/meet-the-artists-of-songs-my-mother-taught-me/) - Songs my mother Taught Me Meet the artists that make up Kentucky Opera's concert, Songs My Mother Taught Me. We'd like to wish all of the Mother figures in our lives a Happy Mother's Day! Maria Palombo Costa Soprano Maria Palombo Costa is a versatile soprano whose artistry spans opera, concert, and choral performance. She has
- [Chorus & Auditions](https://kyopera.org/chorus/) - Chorus & Auditions Kentucky Opera Chorus Kentucky Opera holds open roster auditions for choristers every two years. Contact us to be added to the list for future auditions. Singing storytellers—drama, tragedy, comic relief. The talented choristers are integral to Kentucky Opera productions and community. These are paid positions. Chorus members participate in mainstage productions at
- [Scalia/Ginsburg](https://kyopera.org/scalia-ginsburg/) - scalia/Ginsburg An Opera by Derrick Wang April 10, 2026 | 8pmApril 12, 2026 | 2pmApril 16, 2026 | 7:30pmApril 17, 2026 | 7:30pm This hilarious one-act operatic comedy by Derrick Wang explores the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. Their shared love of opera and humor sealed their bond
- [](https://kyopera.org/opera-rhapsody-gala/) - Opera Rhapsody Gala You are cordially invited to the Opera Rhapsody Gala February 20th! When you enter the Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health, you’ll find yourself in an elegant private courtyard in the Vieux Carré, the French Quarter. The guests around you will be in black tie or 1920s costume attire. A jazz ensemble serenades you as you get your cocktail and mingle. Will you pose with your friends at
- [Songbird](https://kyopera.org/songbird-2/) - songbird Adaptation by Eric Sean Fogel, James Lowe, and Kelley RourkeMusical arrangement and Orchestration by James LoweEnglish lyrics and book by Kelley RourkeBased on La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac, and Ludovic Halévy February 13, 2026 | 8pmFebruary 15, 2026 | 2pmFebruary 17, 2026 | 7:30pm In this adaptation of Jacques Offenbach’s classic rom-com La Périchole, two struggling
- [Meet the Artists of Songbird](https://kyopera.org/meet-the-artists-of-songbird/) - Kentucky Opera Songbird Meet the Artists that make up Kentucky Opera's production of Songbird. Eric Sean Fogel Creator Fogel has been the Head of Stage Movement and Choreography at the Glimmerglass Festival for 16 years, Directing a new production of The Rakes Progress in 2025. He is also a Guest Stage Director on staff at the Metropolitan Opera,
- [All is Calm](https://kyopera.org/all-is-calm/) - The Christmas Truce of 1914. A cappella opera sung in English. 5 performances December 15 - 23, 2023 at the Kentucky Opera Center. Tickets at secure.kyopera.org
- [Kentucky opera](https://kyopera.org/kentucky-opera-meet-the-artists/) - Kentucky Opera All is Calm Meet the Artists Casey Robards Kelly Kitchens Zachary Biddle Christopher Burchett Dylon Crain Jesse Donner Andrew Hallem Kyle King Corey Logsdon Robert Mellon Zach Morris Chad Sloan Christopher G. Smith Cory Spalding Drew Pungratz Brandon Witish Casey Robards Conductor Korean American adoptee, Casey Robards (Suh Jung Ahn) is a music
- [Announcing Season 2025/26](https://kyopera.org/season-25-26/) - Season 2025/26 Opera. Close-up. Surround yourself with the power of opera in the unique setting of the Opera Center for Cultural Health. All the advantages are yours when you purchase all shows with a 2025/26 Season Package. All is CalmDecember 12, 2025 | 8pmDecember 14, 2025 | 2pmDecember 16, 2025 | 1:30pDecember 18, 2025 |
- [La traviata](https://kyopera.org/traviata/) - For the first time in over a decade, this iconic Verdi opera returns to Kentucky Opera. Immerse yourself in the world of Violetta, a determined and famed courtesan, who abandons everything for love.
- [Overture](https://kyopera.org/overture/) - Overture From electrical and carpentry, to musical performance, acting, and visual design, there are many ways to appreciate and participate in the theatre arts. This is your guided experience of the backstage! Explore below and book your group session today. Overture Group Costume Shop tours Final Dress Rehearsals Other opportunities with special arrangement $350 per
- [Opera Center Rentals](https://kyopera.org/rentals/) - Meet in the Company of Great Art 708 Magazine StreetLouisville, Kentucky 40203 Do you have a group that needs to meet? We want to rent the Opera Center to you! Perfect for rehearsals, meetings, parties & more. Ready to rent? For more information, contact Colleen @ colleen_spanyer@KYOpera.org or call (502) 584-4500
- [Amplify Songs of Justice](https://kyopera.org/songs-of-justice/) - June 19, 2025 | 7 pm Juneteenth Jubilee Concert As part of 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. Local artists raise their voices to sing and celebrate freedom with performances honoring
- [Amplify Songs of Remembrance](https://kyopera.org/amplify-songs-of-remembrance/) - Sunday May 18, 2025 | 4pmKentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health 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
- [Season 2024/25](https://kyopera.org/experience-the-2024-25-season-your-way/) - Season 2024/25 The thrill of world-class productions and premieres — and all the advantages are yours with a Season 2024/25 subscription. Explore the Season This Little Light of Mine is a powerful new inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper’s daughter who was called to be a voice for equality. This
- [Visiting the Opera Center](https://kyopera.org/visiting-the-opera-center/) - The Opera Center is Kentucky Opera's home in Louisville, and location of our box office. Get directions, parking information, and read our COVID-19 guidelines.
- [Pygmalion](https://kyopera.org/pygmalion/) - Pygmalion Music by Jean-Philippe RameauLibretto by Barbara Lynne JamisonConcept by Tara Branham Friday, April 4 | 8 pmSunday, April 6 | 2 pmTuesday, April 8 | 1:30 pmThursday, April 10 | 8 pmFriday, April 11 | 8 pm Kentucky Opera’s innovative, brand new production weaves the original myth into an empowering opera. Reimagined by Tara
- [Gallery](https://kyopera.org/gallery/) - Gallery Feel free to share images! Don't forget to tag Kentucky Opera and give credit to our wonderful photographers. Amplify Voices of Pride Photo Credit: Morgan Vonberg Amplify Voices of Pride Amplify Songs of Justice Photo Credit: Morgan Vonberg Amplify Songs of Justice Party with the Pirates Photo Credit: Jolea Brown, Creative Photography Party with
- [Home](https://kyopera.org/home/) - Kentucky Opera's 23/24 Season" Hansel and Gretel, All is Calm, The Pirates of Penzance, As One. Kentucky Opera Center for Cultural Health and The Brown Theatre.
- [Salon Series](https://kyopera.org/salon-series/) - Salon Series Patron's Circle donors ($2,500+), join Barbara for an intimate conversation with Daniel Gilliam and learn about the process of composing for voice. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served for this hour long event in the Opera Center's Artist Parlor. Tuesday, April 4 5:30-6:30pmBarbara Lynne Jamison, General Director/CEO, Kentucky OperaGuests and Topic to be