
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance Announces 2025-26 Season
By Francisco SalazarThe Dayton Performing Arts Alliance has announced its 2025-26 season.
Opera
The season opens with Bizet’s “Carmen” led by an all-female team composed of Chelsea Gallo, a rising star within the conducting world, Irene Rodriguez, an award-winning Flamenco dancer and choreographer, and Dayton Opera’s Artistic Director Kathleen Clawson as stage director.
Performance Dates: Nov. 1-2, 2025
A double will be presented featuring Shawn E. Okpebholo’s “The Cook-Off” and Lee Hoiby’s “Bon Appétit!”
Performance Dates: Feb. 6-7, 2026
John Holiday takes the stage, backed by the full Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Performance Date: April 25, 2026
The season concludes with Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” In Concert.
Performance Dates: May 15–16, 2026
Masterworks
The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dayton Philharmonic Chamber Chorus unite for Handel’s “Messiah.”
Performance Date: Dec. 16, 2025
Pianist Awadagin Pratt joins the DPO to perform two concertos written especially for him, both inspired by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. The program concludes with Mozart’s Requiem.
Performance Dates: May 1-2, 2026
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