Opera in the Ozarks has announced its 75th anniversary, which will feature three operas. Bizet’s “Carmen” will be performed. Performance Dates: June 27-July 25, 2025 Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” will be the second production. Performance Dates: July 1-24, 2025 “Into The Woods” by Stephen Sondheim will be the final production of the season. Performance Dates: June 28-July 23, 2025 Concerts {…}
Opera in the Ozarks has announced its 2024 summer season, “Enchanted Evenings.” The season opens with “La Traviata. Performance Dates: June 21 – July 19, 2024 Next up is “The Crucible.” Performance Dates: June 22 – July 17, 2024 The season ends with a double bill of “L’Enfant et les Sortilège” and “Beauty and the Beast.” “We will be taking {…}
Arkansas’ Opera in the Ozarks has announced its 2023 season, which runs between June 23 – July 21, 2023. The season opens with “L’Elisir d’Amore.” The opera, which will be conducted by Anthony Barrese, will be directed by Robert Swedberg. The cast stars Jesús Bravo and Ilhee Lee as Nemorino with Helena Losado and Laura Romero alternating as Adina. Other {…}
Arkansas’ Opera in the Ozarks will be getting a new theater building courtesy of The Walton Family Foundation. In an official press statement released on the Walton Family Foundation’s official website, the organization revealed that it will provide a $38 million grant to fund the design and construction of the facility. The theater aims to seat 300 people and is {…}
Italian critic and musicologist Fedele d’Amico once praised Rossini for the “orgiastic spirit” and the “vital joy” of his music. This is most true of his most effervescent and famous opera, “The Barber of Seville.” Experiencing it with a good singers and musicians can be like an indulgent meal of cotton candy. A special matinee performance of the piece in Springdale, {…}
Beverly Sills once said the most challenging part of playing Baby Doe was making her likable from the start. The same might be said of the other main characters in Moore’s opera, all of whom are profoundly flawed and selfish. At the opener of this year’s Opera in the Ozarks production an excellent cast reveals all the good in what could {…}
For 68 summers, Northwest Arkansas has been an opera haven for young singers. High atop the Rock Candy Mountain at Inspiration Point in Eureka Springs, amid lush forests and vistas of a golden horizon, Opera in the Ozarks serves as an artist colony for performers from across the United States. The experience culminates in a month-long opera festival — by {…}